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Are you a workaholic?
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Ticklerguy4u
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Hell, my job constantly keeps me moving. My boss would probably look at me and say "What is this? Breaktime?!" before he noticed.
Mastertank1
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A poster in my office said...
If you suspect a coworker has died at his desk;
Place an open beer in front of him; if he fails to reach for it, HE'S DEAD.
If does reach for it, but does so slowly and does not drink, he may still be dead and acting by residual reflex. Try to take the beer away from him; If he lets you, HE'S DEAD.(drink the beer yourself in this case).
Inform payroll so he can be docked for failing to notify his supervisor two weeks in advance of his impending death as required by the work rules.
Mastertank1
We who play and dance are thought mad by they who hear no music.
If you suspect a coworker has died at his desk;
Place an open beer in front of him; if he fails to reach for it, HE'S DEAD.
If does reach for it, but does so slowly and does not drink, he may still be dead and acting by residual reflex. Try to take the beer away from him; If he lets you, HE'S DEAD.(drink the beer yourself in this case).
Inform payroll so he can be docked for failing to notify his supervisor two weeks in advance of his impending death as required by the work rules.
Mastertank1
We who play and dance are thought mad by they who hear no music.
TicklishSinner
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I work with 2 year olds all day long so my job has me singing and dancing around the classroom and everything else so besides my little 30 min break if i was ever jujst laying there I would be found instantly
i was a workaholic til a few tragedies changed my life... and now i take it day by day. and if i go back to teaching, it will be on my time and i'll make my own time. take each day as it comes is my motto and live life everyday. life goes by too quickly as it is. now hubby on the other hand is a definite workaholic. he works far too hard..
isabeau
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It's not true...
....at least according to Snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/fivedays.htm
Claim: A man who died at his office desk went unnoticed by his co-workers for five days.
Status: False.
Example: [Sunday Mercury, 17 December 2000]
Variations: In March 2001,
a slightly-rewritten version began circulating on the Internet, this one transforming dear dead George into a geologist working for an oil company in Calgary, Alberta. One especially adorable difference between this version and the earlier incarnation is the closing comment by Turklebaum's boss, Elliot Wachiaski, which attempts to explain why no one noticed Turklebaum's deceasitude: "Besides he was a geologist, they never really do much anyway."
Origins: What a fable for our times! Nearly all of us feel we're spending too much time at our jobs, are anonymous cogs in corporate machines whose disappearance (or death) would scarcely be noticed by our co-workers and employers, and are spending our lives at work (literally).
So of course people took to the story of poor dead-but-undiscovered George Turklebaum, which the Birmingham [England] Sunday Mercury claimed to have broken when they reported his death as a "Crazy Worlds" item on 17 December 2000 (even though the same item, minus some of the details, had been run by The Guardian and the BBC a few days earlier). The story of Turklebaum's tragic demise was picked up and printed by several other newspapers in Great Britain (including the London Times) in December and January and soon garnered a tremendous amount of attention (especially in Birmingham, Alabama, as confused readers mistakenly bombarded that city's newspapers with queries about Turklebaum). In response to all the inquiries they received, on 28 January 2001 the Sunday Mercury published the following:
Well of course the story is true!
The Sunday Mercury's Crazy World spots are compiled by journalist Keith Chalkley -- a man with a Midas touch for finding strange goings-on in every corner of the globe.
Keith said: 'I was first alerted to George's story by a New York radio station I broadcast to.
'But New York police, to whom I spoke, say the case isn't as odd as people might think.
'In 1975, an insurance clerk with a firm in Manhattan died in his workplace -- and it was 18 DAYS later that it was found that he was dead.'
What satisfied the Sunday Mercury didn't satisfy us, and it shouldn't have satisfied anyone else:
Even though the supposed bucket-kicking took place in New York, it wasn't reported in any American newspaper at the time of Turklebaum's demise. Forget about an obituary showing up; not even a news report about an unnamed dead person discovered sitting at a desk for five days made the news. New York papers aren't so jaded that they wouldn't run such an item if they'd been alerted to one. (Several other foolhardy publications later printed the same story, having convinced themselves that its appearance in a British paper constituted diligent fact checking, but those accounts shouldn't be confused with contemporaneous news reports of a man's death.)
This item came from only a few sources (who ran essentially the same story), all of them in England, even though the death supposedly occurred in New York City.
The identification of the dead man's employer was too vague (a "publishing firm" in New York) to allow for verification.
The Sunday Mercury's source for the story was said to be "a New York radio station," which is not exactly the most reliable of sources. (Just think of how much misinformation Paul Harvey has spread via the radio over the years, all by himself.)
Even the Sunday Mercury didn't say that New York police actually confirmed the story; only that they maintained "the case isn't as odd as people might think." (As it turned out, even the police quote wasn't really a quote at all, but a line taken from a made-up tabloid story.)
A spokesperson at the New York Medical Examiner's office neither remembered the case nor was able to turn up information on the death of anyone named Turklebaum for 1999 or 2000.
A search of the Social Security Death Index unearthed no information about anyone named Turklebaum.
Last but not least, the process of decomposition of human remains is such that a dead body could not have sat unnoticed for five days unless it were it a sealed, completely unused area of a building.
This one was a hoax, no matter how the Sunday Mercury tried to spin it. They (and others) got suckered by a 5 December 2000 article from the Weekly World News (a supermarket tabloid), which was almost word-for-word identical with the version they printed:
(Notice that the Sunday Mercury's follow-up "This really is true!" article quotes their "reporter" as having spoken to the New York police and been told that "the case isn't as odd as people might think" and that "in 1975, an insurance clerk with a firm in Manhattan died in his workplace — and it was 18 DAYS later that it was found that he was dead" — information straight from the concluding paragraph of the Weekly World News piece.)
The Turklebaum saga is a prime example of why we stress repeatedly that the appearance of a news story in one or more newspapers (even respected publications such as the London Times) is no guarantee of its truthfulness. Extraordinary news requires extraordinary documentation, which is something more than a bevy of newspapers simply running the same unsourced piece.
Sightings: A June 2000 Conseco television commercial anticipated (and maybe even have inspired) this fake news story about George Turklebaum. The ad showed an unmoving man wearing sunglasses seated at a desk. Throughout the day various assignments were placed on his desk and then picked up, completed, and dropped back at his desk by co-workers. At the end of the day the wife appears to pick him up. She is complimented on her husband’s diligence and performance, shoos the appreciative co-worker away, closes the door to her husband's office, and begins to prepare him to leave. The voice-over on the commercial comments on how it's important to be prepared for the unexpected, leaving behind the unstated message that otherwise you too might have to day after day prop your dead husband at his desk at work to keep those paychecks coming in.
In January 2004, several news outlets picked up a similar story from the Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat, which claimed that a tax office official in Finland died at his desk, but his death went unnoticed by up to 30 colleagues for two days.
....at least according to Snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/fivedays.htm
Claim: A man who died at his office desk went unnoticed by his co-workers for five days.
Status: False.
Example: [Sunday Mercury, 17 December 2000]
Variations: In March 2001,
a slightly-rewritten version began circulating on the Internet, this one transforming dear dead George into a geologist working for an oil company in Calgary, Alberta. One especially adorable difference between this version and the earlier incarnation is the closing comment by Turklebaum's boss, Elliot Wachiaski, which attempts to explain why no one noticed Turklebaum's deceasitude: "Besides he was a geologist, they never really do much anyway."
Origins: What a fable for our times! Nearly all of us feel we're spending too much time at our jobs, are anonymous cogs in corporate machines whose disappearance (or death) would scarcely be noticed by our co-workers and employers, and are spending our lives at work (literally).
So of course people took to the story of poor dead-but-undiscovered George Turklebaum, which the Birmingham [England] Sunday Mercury claimed to have broken when they reported his death as a "Crazy Worlds" item on 17 December 2000 (even though the same item, minus some of the details, had been run by The Guardian and the BBC a few days earlier). The story of Turklebaum's tragic demise was picked up and printed by several other newspapers in Great Britain (including the London Times) in December and January and soon garnered a tremendous amount of attention (especially in Birmingham, Alabama, as confused readers mistakenly bombarded that city's newspapers with queries about Turklebaum). In response to all the inquiries they received, on 28 January 2001 the Sunday Mercury published the following:
Well of course the story is true!
The Sunday Mercury's Crazy World spots are compiled by journalist Keith Chalkley -- a man with a Midas touch for finding strange goings-on in every corner of the globe.
Keith said: 'I was first alerted to George's story by a New York radio station I broadcast to.
'But New York police, to whom I spoke, say the case isn't as odd as people might think.
'In 1975, an insurance clerk with a firm in Manhattan died in his workplace -- and it was 18 DAYS later that it was found that he was dead.'
What satisfied the Sunday Mercury didn't satisfy us, and it shouldn't have satisfied anyone else:
Even though the supposed bucket-kicking took place in New York, it wasn't reported in any American newspaper at the time of Turklebaum's demise. Forget about an obituary showing up; not even a news report about an unnamed dead person discovered sitting at a desk for five days made the news. New York papers aren't so jaded that they wouldn't run such an item if they'd been alerted to one. (Several other foolhardy publications later printed the same story, having convinced themselves that its appearance in a British paper constituted diligent fact checking, but those accounts shouldn't be confused with contemporaneous news reports of a man's death.)
This item came from only a few sources (who ran essentially the same story), all of them in England, even though the death supposedly occurred in New York City.
The identification of the dead man's employer was too vague (a "publishing firm" in New York) to allow for verification.
The Sunday Mercury's source for the story was said to be "a New York radio station," which is not exactly the most reliable of sources. (Just think of how much misinformation Paul Harvey has spread via the radio over the years, all by himself.)
Even the Sunday Mercury didn't say that New York police actually confirmed the story; only that they maintained "the case isn't as odd as people might think." (As it turned out, even the police quote wasn't really a quote at all, but a line taken from a made-up tabloid story.)
A spokesperson at the New York Medical Examiner's office neither remembered the case nor was able to turn up information on the death of anyone named Turklebaum for 1999 or 2000.
A search of the Social Security Death Index unearthed no information about anyone named Turklebaum.
Last but not least, the process of decomposition of human remains is such that a dead body could not have sat unnoticed for five days unless it were it a sealed, completely unused area of a building.
This one was a hoax, no matter how the Sunday Mercury tried to spin it. They (and others) got suckered by a 5 December 2000 article from the Weekly World News (a supermarket tabloid), which was almost word-for-word identical with the version they printed:
(Notice that the Sunday Mercury's follow-up "This really is true!" article quotes their "reporter" as having spoken to the New York police and been told that "the case isn't as odd as people might think" and that "in 1975, an insurance clerk with a firm in Manhattan died in his workplace — and it was 18 DAYS later that it was found that he was dead" — information straight from the concluding paragraph of the Weekly World News piece.)
The Turklebaum saga is a prime example of why we stress repeatedly that the appearance of a news story in one or more newspapers (even respected publications such as the London Times) is no guarantee of its truthfulness. Extraordinary news requires extraordinary documentation, which is something more than a bevy of newspapers simply running the same unsourced piece.
Sightings: A June 2000 Conseco television commercial anticipated (and maybe even have inspired) this fake news story about George Turklebaum. The ad showed an unmoving man wearing sunglasses seated at a desk. Throughout the day various assignments were placed on his desk and then picked up, completed, and dropped back at his desk by co-workers. At the end of the day the wife appears to pick him up. She is complimented on her husband’s diligence and performance, shoos the appreciative co-worker away, closes the door to her husband's office, and begins to prepare him to leave. The voice-over on the commercial comments on how it's important to be prepared for the unexpected, leaving behind the unstated message that otherwise you too might have to day after day prop your dead husband at his desk at work to keep those paychecks coming in.
In January 2004, several news outlets picked up a similar story from the Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat, which claimed that a tax office official in Finland died at his desk, but his death went unnoticed by up to 30 colleagues for two days.
brokenblue
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i have a full time job and a part time job....working 7 days a week.... 
And should still be a warning not to work too hard.some1somewhere
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TicklishSinner said:
Heh, if you died on the job, the 2 year olds would probably would play "weekend at Bernies" with you.
tulipangel
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I think if i dropped dead no one would notice till they had no more clean clothes..... Its possible!
slacker2114
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The advantage of my job is if I die on the job, I'd crash into something with the forklift. And if it was in an area no one was around, when everyone started running out of work, they'd eventually come looking for me. It's good to be important at your job. 😀
I usually work about 10-12 hours a day, sometimes more. I'm salary so I don't get overtime. I do it because in my business, it's in one's best interest to be the most valuable employee so when a merger happens and layoffs are inevitible, they're more likely to cut the slackers loose.
Mark Diplock
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Touch wood
I'm definatley not a workaholic, but i dont like taking days of sick unless im really bed ridden. Although my job is so laid back at the moment, i love to take my weekends off.
I'm definatley not a workaholic, but i dont like taking days of sick unless im really bed ridden. Although my job is so laid back at the moment, i love to take my weekends off.
