Early Retirement

I usually don't comment on current events...much, but this was just too good to pass up. From the New York Times comes the story of a 51 year old proof-reader, George Turklebaum. George had worked at the same publishing company for 30 years, where he shared an open office space with 23 other workers. So one day, while proofreading a medical textbook, he dropped dead at his desk. That was on Monday. Hey, shit happens. Here's where the weirdness checks in. No one noticed he'd died until Saturday when an office cleaner just happened to ask if he were OK. Apparently he wasn't.

OK. He was a hard worker. He always came in early and left late. He kept to himself. But five days! FIVE DAYS! You'd think someone would've noticed before then. Something. As the NY Times says: "The moral of the story: Don't work too hard. Nobody notices anyway."