Finns miss death in tax office

A tax office official in Finland who died at his desk went unnoticed by up to 30 colleagues for two days.
The man in his 60s died last Tuesday while checking tax returns, but no-one realised he was dead until Thursday.

The head of personnel at the office in the Finnish capital, Helsinki, said the man's closest colleagues had been out at meetings when he died.

He said everyone at the tax office was feeling dreadful - and procedures would have to be reviewed.

Ouch, that's harsh! No family to notice he wasn't coming home? He had one of those jobs where you work alone and rarely get interruptions, so I can see why maybe no one found him right off the bat. You'd think he'd have at least one friend in that office who'd have checked on him at lunchtime or something, tho'.

Sounds like this was a sort of Weekend at Bernies at the office. Not to joke about it, but how could his co-workers not have noticed that he was dead??? :confused: