Posted on 02/16/2011 1:15:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A 51-year-old woman, Rebecca Wells, who worked in the risk management division of the LA County Department of Internal Services, died while working in her cubicle on Friday. Her body was not discovered until the next afternoon, when a security guard found her slumped over at her desk.
The last time a co-worker saw her alive was Friday morning, at 9AM.
"She was always working," said a co-worker.
County coroners are not yet able to say how she died (though no one believes it was foul play.)
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Someone posted a question in the above link, which is mine as well.... Sad news, but it begs the quesiton -— what exactly does someone in risk management division of the LA County Department of Internal Services actually do?
Folks just keep moving along.. just step over that body and keep working
How sad...a Willy Loman-like story, except it’s true...
get overcompensated.
RE: Folks just keep moving along.. just step over that body and keep working
I feel bad for this woman and don’t want to sound like an opportunistic creep but... is her job open ? There are hundreds of thousands of unemployed people in L.A. right now.
I dunno, but apparently it's to die for.
"Government Employee of the Year" Award Recipient for most productive govenment employee in LA County.
A government bureaucrat who probably was first into the office and last to leave on a regular basis. Garnered no affection or loyalty from her fellow pencil-pushers.
/johnny
She was still getting her work done...and has already voted in the next three elections.
The sad thing (other than this woman dying) is, you know some pointy-headed manager type is going to seize on this as grounds for implementing an open-plan office with low cubicle walls and no privacy.
}:-)4
[ Rebecca Wells, who worked in the risk management division of the LA County Department of Internal Services ]
You have to love beuacracies....
If she had worked at the DMV they just plain wouldn’t have noticed....
Her supervisor would have fired her dead corpse for gettign employee of the month two months in a row and making the other useless drones there look bad....
A county bureaucrat drone. A dime a dozen.
Risk management departments handle issues related to the agency's liability. In part, they are a type of claim adjuster, handling claims and possibly working with the city/county atty on civil cases. Many bigger agencies receive a large volume of claims, and people in the risk management department handle them as well as being proactive in trying to reduce the agencies exposure (legal risk, etc)
Well, they will dock her pay for the last,unproductive, day, I’m guessing....
These days...with people so afraid of losing their jobs...probably no one spoke up for being afraid of being canned. Someone dying on the job....that is a possible Workmens Comp claim.
I am sure the Business Socialists will go off the deep end and claim this is because “they are govt employees”...but something like this can happen anywhere, in any company
Maybe she was respected and given some privacy. Not being found for this length of time does not indicate neglect to me.
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