Observa o que faz quem vai,
olha o tucano antes dele ir,
ele olha para cima,
porque o caminho deve estar livre,
toma curto impulso,
se lança e voa !
Fui !
Sua ausência deixa a cena vazia,
isso marca sua presença.
Vou contar um segredo ambíguo:
Para usar sua ausência
deve alcançar nível indispensável,
fazer sempre o ABC e o XYZ;
use ausência quando doa, senão foi doação.
Aquele derradeiro "Fui !"
Olha lá, nosso mundo rolando no espaço,
seguindo a antiga trilha ao redor da estrela
com sua fiel escudeira a Lua,
seguindo a antiga trilha ao redor da estrela
com sua fiel escudeira a Lua,
Quando eu dizer: Fui !
O mundo vai seguir a 100.000 km por hora ,
no mesmo rumo d'antes.
O mundo vai seguir a 100.000 km por hora ,
no mesmo rumo d'antes.
O Brasil, quase 200 milhões de almas;
Melhor não ser noticia ao partir.
Melhor não ser noticia ao partir.
Preferível teu nome ser dito por alguns,
que lembrarão casos de como fostes louco
e enfrentastes tudo e agora estais em paz.
que lembrarão casos de como fostes louco
e enfrentastes tudo e agora estais em paz.
Fui ! será uma multidão a dizer em coro, naquele dia,
teu último dia por aqui,
um dia a mais para o Brasil.
teu último dia por aqui,
um dia a mais para o Brasil.
Antes de ir ensaia bem.
Manda ver primeiro no teu trabalho, diz: Fui !
Talvez tenhas que voltar,
pelo menos uma vez poderás dizer que fostes e voltastes.
pelo menos uma vez poderás dizer que fostes e voltastes.
Não sejas como o George Turklebaum,
Vive tão presente, indispensável, que tua ausência seja notada !
Fui !
Assim foi publicado em http://urbanlegends.about.com/
I WOULD be remiss if I let another week pass without commenting on the strange story of George Turklebaum.
Reports published in the British press and circulating on the Internet claim that Turklebaum, allegedly a proofreader in a New York publishing firm, sat stone-dead in his office chair for five days last October before his co-workers realized it. This has aroused Yankee skepticism.
In England the item has appeared in the Birmingham Sunday Mercury, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, the Times of London, and even on the BBC, but American newspapers have by and large not seen fit to propagate it.
Death a dull, dreary affair
As the story goes, 51-year-old George Turklebaum quietly suffered a fatal heart attack one day while working at his desk. None of his 23 co-workers thought it remarkable to see him slumped motionless in his chair for five days running, apparently, because Turklebaum habitually kept to himself and was the first to arrive and the last to leave the office every day.
It's the kind of scenario Somerset Maugham must have had in mind when he said, "Death is a very dull, dreary affair."
No telltale symptoms
But let's be scientific. Medical examiners say that within three days after a person dies, the corpse should exhibit obvious signs of decay: swelling, discoloration, fluid leakage and that distinctive "odor of death." It's unlikely those telltale symptoms would have gone unnoticed by Turklebaum's fellow employees on into the fifth day post mortem.
Be that as it may, the Birmingham Sunday Mercury stands by its account. Defiantly.
"We reported in December that New Yorker George Turklebaum had died at work — but none of his colleagues noticed for FIVE days," a follow-up article says. "We estimate that international interest in poor George's woeful tale means that more than 100,000 emails have now been sent from office worker to office worker."
"Of course the story is true," the Mercury continues — nevermind that the New York City white pages don't list a single Turklebaum in the region; the item came from a reliable source, a Big Apple radio station.
Who scooped whom?
It's interesting to find the Sunday Mercury bragging as if it scooped the story, given that its first published report was dated December 17 and the Guardian had already run a briefer version two days earlier.
Among the colorful details we find in the Mercury's rendition is this closing tag: "Ironically, George was proofreading manuscripts of medical textbooks when he died."
Does anyone besides me hear the phrase "too good to be true" ringing in their ears?
In any case, the Mercury does have it right when it boasts that Turklebaum-mania has swept the Internet in recent weeks. True or not, the story resonates with disaffected office workers everywhere. As one email correspondent put it, the tale bespeaks "a universal fear of being ignored (and unappreciated) in the workplace."
Not to mention a universal fascination with the macabre ... and the unlikely.
Update #1: Weekly World News
After the above comments were published, the Birmingham Mercury offered an alternative explanation of where the Turklebaum story originated, claiming it was culled from the pages of the Weekly World News, a supermarket tabloid renowned in the U.S. for its outrageous, credulity-defying "scoops" concerning human females impregnated by space aliens and the like. We have since confirmed that the item did, in fact, appear in the December 5, 2000 issue of WWN under the headline "Dead Man Works for a Week," then again on June 3, 2003, headlined, "Man Dies at Desk — And Nobody Notices for 5 Days."
Update #2: Life imitates tabloid
Via BBC News : In January 2004, the Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat reported — as factual — that a tax auditor in his late sixties keeled over at his desk in the Helsinki tax office and his dead body went undiscovered by co-workers for two days.
Reports published in the British press and circulating on the Internet claim that Turklebaum, allegedly a proofreader in a New York publishing firm, sat stone-dead in his office chair for five days last October before his co-workers realized it. This has aroused Yankee skepticism.
In England the item has appeared in the Birmingham Sunday Mercury, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, the Times of London, and even on the BBC, but American newspapers have by and large not seen fit to propagate it.
Death a dull, dreary affair
As the story goes, 51-year-old George Turklebaum quietly suffered a fatal heart attack one day while working at his desk. None of his 23 co-workers thought it remarkable to see him slumped motionless in his chair for five days running, apparently, because Turklebaum habitually kept to himself and was the first to arrive and the last to leave the office every day.
It's the kind of scenario Somerset Maugham must have had in mind when he said, "Death is a very dull, dreary affair."
No telltale symptoms
But let's be scientific. Medical examiners say that within three days after a person dies, the corpse should exhibit obvious signs of decay: swelling, discoloration, fluid leakage and that distinctive "odor of death." It's unlikely those telltale symptoms would have gone unnoticed by Turklebaum's fellow employees on into the fifth day post mortem.
Be that as it may, the Birmingham Sunday Mercury stands by its account. Defiantly.
"We reported in December that New Yorker George Turklebaum had died at work — but none of his colleagues noticed for FIVE days," a follow-up article says. "We estimate that international interest in poor George's woeful tale means that more than 100,000 emails have now been sent from office worker to office worker."
"Of course the story is true," the Mercury continues — nevermind that the New York City white pages don't list a single Turklebaum in the region; the item came from a reliable source, a Big Apple radio station.
Who scooped whom?
It's interesting to find the Sunday Mercury bragging as if it scooped the story, given that its first published report was dated December 17 and the Guardian had already run a briefer version two days earlier.
Among the colorful details we find in the Mercury's rendition is this closing tag: "Ironically, George was proofreading manuscripts of medical textbooks when he died."
Does anyone besides me hear the phrase "too good to be true" ringing in their ears?
In any case, the Mercury does have it right when it boasts that Turklebaum-mania has swept the Internet in recent weeks. True or not, the story resonates with disaffected office workers everywhere. As one email correspondent put it, the tale bespeaks "a universal fear of being ignored (and unappreciated) in the workplace."
Not to mention a universal fascination with the macabre ... and the unlikely.
Update #1: Weekly World News
After the above comments were published, the Birmingham Mercury offered an alternative explanation of where the Turklebaum story originated, claiming it was culled from the pages of the Weekly World News, a supermarket tabloid renowned in the U.S. for its outrageous, credulity-defying "scoops" concerning human females impregnated by space aliens and the like. We have since confirmed that the item did, in fact, appear in the December 5, 2000 issue of WWN under the headline "Dead Man Works for a Week," then again on June 3, 2003, headlined, "Man Dies at Desk — And Nobody Notices for 5 Days."
Update #2: Life imitates tabloid
Via BBC News : In January 2004, the Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat reported — as factual — that a tax auditor in his late sixties keeled over at his desk in the Helsinki tax office and his dead body went undiscovered by co-workers for two days.
George Turklebaum Sightings
Não tem muito lugar para ensaiar, vai no teu trabalho mesmo, diz: Fui !
Porque quando tu fores realmente alguns nem iriam se importar,
então, faz que escutem antes, porque agora sim vão se importar.
Tua ausência voluntária é muito diferente da ausência final.
O melhor lugar para dizer Fui ! é lá.
Não deixes para a derradeira vez.
Outros lugares não diga Fui ! Diga eis me aqui !
OBS.
Aproximei a velocidade da terra em 100.000 km/h, mas a velocidade orbital é de 107.000 km/h, ou 29,8 km/segundo. Claro, tudo mundo sabe.
A questão é que dedicamos a maior parte de nosso tempo útil ao nosso local de trabalho.
Morremos lá, um pouquinho cada dia, nos esforçando ao máximo dentro das nossas capacidades...
A moral da história do George Turklebaum é viver melhor nossas vidas e certamente isso passa por diminuir a importância que damos ao nosso local de trabalho.
Infelizmente, dar o "Fui !" e que sua ausência seja notada e sentida, é apenas se sua presença é indispensável.
Caso contrário sua ausência não fará diferença, pior se ela for comemorada por todos rsrs. Porque sua ausência sempre será comemorada por alguém, mas se o preço for em trabalho dobrado ou reconhecimento de sua presença como necessária, então a comemoração é muito curta e saíra cara.
Para aqueles que tem empregos com estabilidade funcional tem maneiras de dar o "Fui!" sem arriscar reputação, como por exemplo razões de saúde. O melhor para você seria que as razões de saúde não fossem reais, porque ai o "Fui !" esta atrasado. Sim, de qualquer maneira, mas vale tarde do que nunca.
No seu tempo fora olhe com atenção em volta.
Reveja suas prioridades.
Escolha dedicar tempo a quem esta perto do coração.
O trabalho, na maior parte das vezes, dá muito desgosto ao coração.Ao nosso e dos familiares.
Olhe para você. Você não é o seu trabalho. Relaxe.
Cuide com carinho de Você !!!
O GIF é uma sequência de presenças e ausências, o nosso tucano esta ai e vai, de novo esta ai e de novo vai, interminável. Se isso lembrou de algo, que bom !
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