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Wells Fargo employee found dead at desk after 4 days
- bluSCALE4 2y agoKind of sums up how people continue to give their lives; their most important years to corporations for self worth and validation when in reality, you mean nothing to them. You're invisible.
- mc32 2y agoWhat does this mean? Should they monitor people's pulse or heat signature? Should they have someone do rounds and monitor people, maybe poke those seemingly still? This happened over a weekend. Discovered on a Tues. What exactly are you asking for? Are families and friends soulless because sometimes people die alone at home without anyone noticing?
- janniehater 2y ago[dead]
- rhelz 2y agoIt means you should not sacrifice your health or relationships with spouse and kids for a company which cares so little about you that you could literally die in your cube and nobody would notice or care.
- mc32 2y agoOn the one hand you're blaming the company for not keeping good tabs on workers, on the other you're blaming coworkers and friends for not noticing. How is the company and how are coworkers supposed to care more? Are they supposed to act like gulags with daily roll-calls before and after work where you seek to find out if anyone escaped? This was a lightly used floor of an office that had hybrid workers and it happened over a weekend. I really don't know what more you're asking for? Maybe you want cadaver dogs roaming the floors on a daily basis just in case?
- rhelz 2y ago// you're blaming the company // Hmmm....trying to figure out why you think I'm blaming the company. I'm not really--the company is not your friend, and it's not your family, nor should it be. // I really don't know what more you're asking for? // I'm asking you and everybody who is reading this not to confuse the company with your family and friends. No matter how much time you take away from your friends and family and give to the company, the company will--and should!--fire you as soon as they can find a cheaper way to do your job. It absolutely does not care if you die at your desk and alone. Nor should it.
- _w1tm 2y agoI doubt she had a spouse or kids, if no one realized her passing for three days.
- rhelz 2y agoI wonder why that was? Perhaps she prioritized work over friends and family?
- bluSCALE4 2y agoThat would push my point even further. Work gave her solace, why find a husband? I can do it. Why breed? I can have animals. Why be a mother? Work is work and working for a corporation makes me happy. Yet she died at her work for what? Yes, this happens to all people but I believe it happens more often because complicate our lives.
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoEven with good relationships, this happens. I can think of two separate friends of my family who lost adult children in this way. They died in their apartments and weren't found for close to a week. One of them was actually a childhood friend of mine.
- bluSCALE4 2y agoI can only speculate but I imagine deluded themselves in one way or another. This life is stacked against sanity.
- bluSCALE4 2y agoI looked at my karma and it dropped a point. I thought, did I post something negative? Then I come to this huge thread my comment spawned. Glad one person got what I was trying to say. Wish you the best.
- rhelz 2y agochuckle Wish you the best as well. Hold fast to the one's you love.
- dangalite 2y agoFor one it means nobody noticed the woman was dead in an office for four days, there was no wellness check. It's likely the people she knew best were at work, and well, this is one possible outcome of that lifestyle.
- bluSCALE4 2y agoYep, work can provide a lot of value to the mind and general day to day well being but at its core, it's all a facade and at some point, everyone realizes it but by then, the biological clock ticked past to the point of no return.
- codersfocus 2y agoI’m pretty sure most people work for money, not those things you mention. And working for money to participate in organized society is objectively easier than going off grid.
- mc32 2y agoPeople tend to forget how grueling pre-modern life before modern society etc., was for people. Most people were one bad season away from starvation and penury. No air conditioning/heat, medicines, heathy food, hygiene, good shelter, lighting, etc. I'm not saying working in early mills or factories was fun, but it beat the hell out of subsistence living so much that people opted for that to remaining in the hinterlands --this still is the case in modern China --that's why there are so many illegal internal migrants moving to city manufacturing sectors.
- defrost 2y agoAnd yet, despite all that Payirti turned right around, left modern life, the arguing, the fighting, the diabetes, and returned to life as a hunter gather in the vast Kiwirrkurra desert. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30500591 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30500591 Modern people tend to never be aware of how many hunter gathers live long fit healthy lifestyles.
- mc32 2y agoCan that sustain 8-billion? Can they live totally disconnected from modern life? Is it sustainable above and below the tropics of cancer and capricorn? I know there are some !Kung who live alright as bushmen, in a mild climate, but it's not an easy life. Anyhow, more power to them if they remove all traces of modernity from their lives.
- wruza 2y agoNot that I disagree with everything, but 8 billions argument seems misplaced to me. Why should a life style support that many, if valid? Logistic map (aka uncontrolled growth of population or overpopulation) is basically the fundamental source of suffering for all living things. Instead of planning for food, nature just overproduces demand and lets the weak starve to death and the average to just starve. Rather than asking how it would support billions, we should ask how we are planning to not suffer in these numbers. Haven’t heard it regarding our current life style. Everyone tells us to reproduce more and pay more and more astronomic bills and loans, that’s it.
- gwbas1c 2y agoWho here has worked at a boring desk job, in a cubicle hell, where you hardly talk to your neighbor? Who here has been the last one out on a Friday, simply because you've started browsing the web and have nothing better to do? I'd like to know more about what her desk was like? Was she situated with her back to other people, so it wasn't obvious that she was unresponsive? Did people leave her undisturbed, out of politeness? Did she pass late Friday afternoon, and no one noticed?
- karaterobot 2y agoExtremely sad. Two things of note: her last badge-in was on a Friday, and her body was noticed on a Tuesday, so two of those days were when the office was closed. The other is that almost everybody in the office, according to the article, works remotely. So, it's possible not many people even had a chance to notice her between when she died on Friday (presumably) and when she was finally found on Tuesday. However, that office supposedly has round the clock security, and the security on duty didn't pick up on anything unusual. Unless there's some rule against security monitoring the area where she worked, it's possible BOA corporate needs to review its physical security procedures, and possibly its security staff. In any case, something is broken there.
- fuzzfactor 2y agoA real wake-up call to BOA when they see what happened at Wells Fargo ;)
- karaterobot 2y agoWhoops!
- anal_reactor 2y agoIt's surprisingly easy to miss a dead person, it's not like they have a pink neon "HEY I'M BEING DEAD OVER HERE". > However, that office supposedly has round the clock security, and the security on duty didn't pick up on anything unusual. I can imagine that if I had the security officer's job, and I walked around same office every single day, I'd really stop caring at some point and could potentially miss a dead body. It's an office, not airplane landing checklist after all. Probably the guy was looking for things like open doors or damaged equipment.
- inglor_cz 2y agoAlso, electronic security systems tend to detect movement or warmth, two things that corpses generally lack.
- petra303 2y agoI can see my employer now. “See, this is why we have short wall cubes! So we can find your body quicker!”
- happytoexplain 2y agoYou get walls? Lucky.
- dangalite 2y agoIt's the primary benefit of open offices. I know if you're at least pretending to work, nobody's going to die on the job without everyone's knowledge. Her "estate" can probably make a case for Monday pay even if she died on Friday. That's not happening in an open office. Move the corpse out, keep everyone focused, and stay lean to boot.
- guywithahat 2y ago> Prudhomme's cubicle was reportedly on the third floor and away from the main aisle. > They said while most employees at the Wells Fargo office work remote, the building has 24/7 security and someone should have found Prudhomme sooner. Very sad, although admittedly I thought the title meant she worked for four days before dying of exhaustion. She actually just had a secluded office in an empty building
- Gualdrapo 2y ago> She actually just had a secluded office in an empty building Which makes me remember about the stories of people forced to return to office after the lockdowns, just to find themselves in empty buildings because everyone else gets to work from home
- rhelz 2y agoThink about all the things at work that you are sooooo worried about, and seem soooo important. Probably for a company who literally wouldn't notice or even care if you just died at your desk.
- yieldcrv 2y agoOne thing I’ve learned from working at startups which don’t exist anymore: how liberally you used your vacation policy doesn’t matter how long your breaks were doesn’t matter I’ve travelled and tried to make meetings while my friends or lovers were around, and in hindsight it was not worth leveraging that discipline Helping other coworkers is more useful for perception than performing in your own duties
- self_awareness 2y agoThis comment kind of reminds me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l5ZmK08FY0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l5ZmK08FY0
- someguydave 2y agoThe interests of employees and employers (and investors) are indeed not aligned
- kyriakos 2y agoReminds me of this case https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/1/grandma-trapped-in-elevator-for-six-days-survived-by-rationing-groceries-763381 https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/1/grandma-tra...
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- squiffsquiff 2y agoOP link down for me. Alternative: https://nypost.com/2024/08/29/business/wells-fargo-employee-found-dead-in-office-4-days-after-scanning-in-to-building/ https://nypost.com/2024/08/29/business/wells-fargo-employee-...
- self_awareness 2y agoOnce we had a fire drill at our office. I had three big monitors and ANC headphones. I didn't hear a thing. I was sitting relaxed alone in my room, other co-workers from the same room were on vacations. I didn't hear the alarm. The guy who had to check if everyone evacuated just glanced over my room and didn't see me, as I was behind the monitors. When I was about to to get some water, I've discovered that the fire doors were all activated. I remember the feeling when I was going outside the office by using the fire staircase (elevators were off), and seeing firemen passing by, all looking at me as if I was some kind of an alien visiting earth. That feeling now tells me that it's completely believable to miss a dead person for a few days, especially if two days are the weekend. Someone didn't do their job, but this happens, sometimes in the worst time possible. In such cases, we get the news like in this situation.
- arresin 2y agoWhat headset model?
- bb88 2y ago> That employee said several people smelled a foul odor but passed it off as faulty plumbing. You know how many office buildings have some kind of foul odor? Lots.