What ABOUT this?!!!
A friend sent me an article in an email titled "Worker Dead at Desk For Five Days"! In it was told about how bosses of a New York City publishing firm were still wondering why no one had noticed that "one of their employees had been sitting dead at his desk for five days before anyone asked if he was feeling okay"! Seems George Turklebaum, 51, a proofreader employed at the firm for 30 years in an open office he shared with 23 other workers, had had a heart attack on a Monday and simply passed quietly away. An office cleaner asked on Saturday morning why he was working on the weekend, and that was how his death was discovered. Seems poor old George was always the first one in of a morning, the last to leave at night, kept to himself, so no one wondered why he was in the same position for so long. No one wondered! I'D like to know why anyone never noticed the SMELL!? But really, what a height of disinterestedness, and coldness! What does that say about our corporate working conditions? What's really ironic is that George was proofreading manuscripts of medical textbooks when he died. The article had a rather terse and cutting moral to it: "Don't work too hard. Nobody notices anyway." How sad. Any other viewpoints on this?
posted by Mistress Editor @ 7:54 AM
1 Comments:
At 11:21 AM,
Katja R. said…
Mistress Editor: I share your outrage. That poor man!
Corporate entities enforce so much on us!
I have a lot of people around me who are very much against 'Big Government' but they don't even think about the terrible ways that corporations treat their workers.
White collar workers seldom have union membership, so redress is difficult, then there's the whole thing of 'acting proffessional' and 'looking proffessional'
Probably someone did wonder but was afraid to tap him on the shoulder.
Maybe the office was very cold and the smell wasn't so noticeable. The real smell comes from bodies being exposed to heat.
I don't want to be crude here, but maybe the poor man hadn't eaten, lunch hours are very short, half an hour, certainly not enough time to eat anything healthy and return to one's desk. So maybe there were no body wastes to be released and therefore not even that smell.
What a horrible way to go! That poor man, didn't anyone call and notice he was missing? Did he not have a wife, a girlfriend, a buddy?
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