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Google Engineer Jumps to His Death from 14th Floor of Company’s NYC Office
Daily Fetched ^ | May 5, 2023 | By: Jason Walsh

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.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: engineer; google; googleengineer
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To: Persevero
Be gentle with each other. You never know what someone is going through.

In this case, it was the window.

Did he have help?

41 posted on 05/05/2023 10:50:12 AM PDT by null and void (Attention! Non-compliant Resident Alert! Attention! Non-compliant Resident Alert! Attention! Non-com)
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To: cymbeline

Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians.......................


42 posted on 05/05/2023 10:51:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

AI told him to.


43 posted on 05/05/2023 10:52:06 AM PDT by cp124 (80% of everything is fake or a lie.)
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To: null and void

😜🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️.........................


44 posted on 05/05/2023 10:52:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I wonder if he had Downs Syndrome??? Seriously though, I wonder if he had lost his job? If so, he may have been frightened about upcoming changes he would be going through. Some people do not handle change well - which I think is why so many Americans live in another year. For Liberal whites, it is the 1950s, for many Freepers, it is still the Cold War Era, and the Commies are out to get us. For blacks, dey still be back in Slavery/Jim Crow years. It is amazing to me how many Americans do not live in 2023.


45 posted on 05/05/2023 10:54:47 AM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts. +Sodomy & Abortion are NOT cornerstones of Civilization! )
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To: Red Badger

the AI did it.


46 posted on 05/05/2023 11:00:56 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
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To: GaltAdonis
"That must have hurt."

Not so much the jumping as the landing.

47 posted on 05/05/2023 11:12:41 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Red Badger

Selfish POS.


48 posted on 05/05/2023 11:16:11 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Red Badger

High paying job he thought would last forever and racked up debt that could bancrupt him, and then got a laid off notice.


49 posted on 05/05/2023 11:19:05 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: outofsalt
Right - it's not the fall that kills you.
It's the sudden stop...
50 posted on 05/05/2023 11:21:04 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: Churchillspirit

My mother committed suicide in the summer following my graduation from high school. A nephew killed himself just five years ago. The family never recovers. Some feel disgrace, but most try to second guess if they were the reason or failed to be the prevention. I know you and I share a permanent and profound wound.


51 posted on 05/05/2023 11:47:08 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

People who commit suicide always leave a trail of misery for others behind them. I’s generally a very selfish act.


52 posted on 05/05/2023 11:51:57 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Red Badger

He fell 14 floors and they said he was unconscious, unbelievable.


53 posted on 05/05/2023 11:53:59 AM PDT by Rappini (Hope means coming in second.)
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To: Red Badger

AI wet work!


54 posted on 05/05/2023 11:56:19 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: caww

It is a selfish act. I think it also shows an inability to steer one’s own life and a strong tendency to want to retain conditions that might not be particularly important. Those in physical anguish get a pass from me.


55 posted on 05/05/2023 11:56:38 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Red Badger
In February, fellow coworker Jacob Pratt, 33, was found dead inside his apartment on February 16.

Hmm, not sure Google is offering a good work.life balance.

56 posted on 05/05/2023 11:56:40 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

That way of dying I’ve always found horrifying. That jump. Man, he didn’t die right away.

Well, woke or not condolences to his loved ones. I’m sure they are feeling devastated.


57 posted on 05/05/2023 11:59:08 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: GingisK
Perhaps they see no other options....especially those in long term physical anguish.
58 posted on 05/05/2023 12:02:04 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: rdl6989; KevinB
Yeah, I thought that was a weird comment. Unless the reporter thinks the guy was pushed.
,br> I think the weirdness was saying "in what appears to be" "apparent suicide". You can say either, but saying both is redundant. Every apparent suicide "appears to be" a suicide. That is what apparent means.
59 posted on 05/05/2023 12:03:45 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: A Navy Vet
I bet that if these big tech companies had not interfered in the 2020 election, there wouldn't have been all of these layoffs under a Trump second term.

For Twitter, they would still have their cushy jobs, but no, their zeal to get rid of Trump and censoring conservatives backfired on them. Elon Musk would not have even considered buying Twitter if they just kept it straight.

Now this guy jumps out the window, and another hanged himself. Probably were ones that cheered and danced in the streets when Brandon got "elected".

60 posted on 05/05/2023 12:06:41 PM PDT by PallMal
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