Posted on 05/05/2023 9:49:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
Google Engineer Jumps to His Death from 14th Floor of Company-s NYC HQ
A Google engineer has jumped to his death from the 14th floor of the company headquarters in New York City in what appears to be an apparent suicide.
The man, who has not yet been named, was found on the ground on Thursday’s 15th Street side of the building.
Police found the man unconscious after receiving multiple phone calls about the incident.
The Google engineer was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he later died.
The officer discovered handprints on the 14th-floor ledge, according to one source speaking with the New York Post.
There was no suicide note left behind.
The death is the second Google engineer reportedly taking their own life this year.
In February, fellow coworker Jacob Pratt, 33, was found dead inside his apartment on February 16.
Pratt had apparently taken his own life by hanging, an NYPD source told the New York Post.
Pratt was a partnership leader at the company and had been for a year and a half, and started at Google as an agency manager in May 2019, according to his LinkedIn.
“His interests in advertising and technology lead him to a dream job as an accounting manager at Google in Manhattan,” his obituary said.
Google has laid off roughly 12,000 of its global workforce this year, as many other big tech firms follow suit amid the economic downturn.
As The Daily Mail reported:
Sundar Pichai, Alphabet’s CEO, said the losses affect teams across the company, including recruiting, some corporate functions, and some engineering and products teams.
The mass reduction comes just days after rival Microsoft Corp said it would lay off 10,000 workers, and Amazon started to fire its 18,000 workers as the ‘rich cession’ rips through the world’s biggest firms in recent months.
The most in-demand workers right now are blue-collar employees, while white-collar workers have seen major job losses in the last year.
The phenomenon has been dubbed ‘rich cession’ by those in the field.
Google must be downsizing
They are....................
Wish they all would... Everything Google needs to die.
Come on, man.
Google gives you wings
Be gentle with each other. You never know what someone is going through.
"Must be a board meeting."
Came here for the laughs....
Actually, he survived. He didn’t die until later
Gads. An excruciating death by strangulation or ten seconds of regretting your decision to jump as you plummet to the ground.
Neither sounds like a good way to go.
SMH.
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That must have hurt.
“Be gentle with each other. You never know what someone is going through.”
Amen.
Considering all the Shenanigans they are alleged to havevbeen involved in, could this be a form of Arkancide?
🤔
No severance pay for that Sap.
Most suicides by hanging, even in jail or prison isn’t what you think. Yes they tie something around their neck, but, not stepping of a stool or chair. Instead they lean forward or slouch forward or down while sitting and just cut off the blood flow to the brain, quite painless, you just pass out and die.
“The Google engineer was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he later died.”
14 floors and didn’t die instantly.......egads
Yet all these companies are still in business. It's my belief that Silicon Valley tech companies, with all their wealth, went way over-board in their hiring practices for social reasons. At the same time, they turned their offices into fun zones where employees were on skates or skateboards and playing inter-office games and many were doing nothing.
I saw a TV expose' about the fun times at one of these companies and couldn't believe what a waste of man-power and employee salaries. But then, Biteme has the answer, "Learn to program". Bwahahaha!
Poor slob connected to the Clintons?
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