Work is Killing Me.....

Taken from the New York Times:

Bosses of a publishing firm are trying to work out why no one notice that one of their employees had been sitting dead at his desk for five days before anyone asked if he was feeling okay. George Turlebaum, 51, who had been employed as a proof-reader at a New York firm for 30 years, had a heart attack I in the open-plan office he shared with 23 other workers. He quietly passed away on Monday, but nobody noticed until Saturday moring when an office cleaner asked why he was working during the weekend. His boss, Elliot Wachiaski, said: "George was always the first guy in each morning and the last to leave at night, so no one found it unusual that he was in the same position all that time and didn't say anything. He was always absorbed in his work and kept much to himself." A post mortem examination revealed that he had been dead for five days after suffering a coronary. George was proofreading manuscripts of medical textbooks when he died.

That story is NOT true. Look it ip on www.snopes.com. My point is that people are gullible and will believe most anything, especially if you embellish details and weave in a good story.