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- Category: News & Analysis
- Created on Sunday, 29 June 2008 09:52
- Written by Weekly World News
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This story is not true. It is a reprint from the Weekly World News in 2000.
But the fact that people find it believable, and have been bouncing it around the web for years... says a great deal about how alienated and isolated people feel. Imagine how many people have actually believed that they could drop dead on their jobs and no one would notice.
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PermalinkWell this story may not be true--but here's one that is. Not quite death literally but close. Several years ago there was the year-end union gathering of postal workers in my former city. A janitor who had worked for the P.O. for almost 40 yrs. was retiring. And what was his retirement gift from management? A broom that had been painted gold. He might as well have died on the job.
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