Posted on 08/31/2024 5:15:13 AM PDT by Morgana
A 60-year-old Arizona Wells Fargo employee scanned into her office on a Friday on what appeared to be an ordinary workday. Then, four days later, she was found dead in her cubicle.
Denise Prudhomme, 60, was found dead on Aug. 20 in her office in Tempe, police said.
She had last scanned in the building at 7 a.m. on Aug. 16, a Friday, and there was no further scan in or out of the office, authorities said.
Tempe police responded to the Wells Fargo office in the 1100 block of West Washington Street after on-site security called about an employee they believed to be dead. She was pronounced dead at 4:55 p.m., police said.
The cause of death is pending determination by the Maricopa County medical examiner. Police said the preliminary investigation showed no obvious signs of foul play.
The investigation continues.
It's not clear how Prudhomme had gone unnoticed for so long. NBC affiliate KPNX of Phoenix reported that she worked in a cubicle on the third floor, away from the main aisle.
An employee who spoke with KPNX on the condition of anonymity said that a colleague found her at her desk while walking around the building and that several people had smelled a foul odor but believed it to be faulty plumbing.
Wells Fargo confirmed she sat in an underpopulated area of the building.
“We are deeply saddened by the loss of our colleague, Denise Prudhomme. Our thoughts are with her family and loved ones, and we are in contact to ensure they are well supported during this difficult time,” the company said in a statement Thursday.
It said that it is "committed to the safety and wellness of our workforce" and that it is "reviewing our own internal procedures after this event."
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Did she have a red Swingline Desk Stapler?
a lot of offices are empty on friday post covid, much less over the weekend
She was not discovered until Tuesday. Monday is usually the busiest day of the week, why was she not seen then?
the really big question...clocked in at 7am, never clocked out, how many hours did she work before taking the “long nap” and will she get overtime for the time she obviously put in at her desk accomplishing the usual amount of work?
It is one of the bad side effects of the 'Work from Home' trend in blue collar jobs.
No one is concerned when they don't see or you don't come in for days.
I knew of several co-workers over the years that didn't show up for work and someone stopped by their home and found them dead.
These days it is common place not to see someone for days or weeks while they work from home.
One of my former co-workers wives does medical approvals from home and only has to 'go into the office' a couple times a year.
In my area, traffic on Mondays and Fridays is noticeably lighter. I suspect most workers adopt the “three days in the office” habit for Tuesdays through Thursdays.
We had a guy on the Network team that I once worked on, I had worked with this guy on multiple projects, he had some health problems in the past but seemed to have the resolved, he came into the company gym early on Saturday morning, died of some heart issue, he was found Monday morning when the first guy on the team came to work, he had been dead for a little over 48 hours, needless to say the guy who found him on Monday morning was pretty shocked.
The police used his badge swipes to know when he first came to the office on Saturday morning.
Mr. Drysdale would have found a way not to pay anything.
We had the HR manager visiting a different facility. He told one guy he was a bit jet lagged, they directed him to an office. He went into the wrong, unoccupied office.
Some hours later, they went to get him to go out to dinner, couldn't find him.
They figured he'd gone back to the hotel. Some hours later, the custodial staff found him slumped over a desk, dead as a door nail.
Had it been a different day, as they only get cleaning twice a week, he'd have been there for a few days.
We had a team member who didn’t show up for days at our test facility. We all knew it was very unlike him and kept asking each other if we’d seen him on social media, etc.
Finally conferred with our supervisor that it was unlike him to be no call no show and not be on Facebook. So she finally had the sheriff do a welfare check.
he was gone.
He was a divorced guy in his 50s.
The saddest thing was his parents were in their 90s and outlived him. He was their only child.
Lol
And she was getting ready to move to the basement.
They’ll fire a lower level supervisor and everyone will get a memo stating the new policy, including the janitors. Building security will do regular walk arounds and everyone will have to sign in and out of the building. One mistake and everyone will have to change the way they do things. That’s the way it’s don’t. Upper management is protected first.
I remember a marine being left behind in the Southern Calif. desert. Took 4 days to realize he was AWOL. He died and they hung a Lt. and 2 Sargents.
If only Mr. Epstein could have been looked after.
Some of those office staples were attached to the desk by a chain, or a plastic covered cord. Maybe a few were rigged to sound an alarm if someone dared to remove that stapler from that particular desk.
They’ll dock her pay for failing to punch out...
Not sure it’s really that big a mystery. I mean she clocked in Friday. Nobody there Saturday. Nobody there Sunday. Found Monday. I mean the only interesting part is usually Friday night is a janitors night. But it’s not like people were working there for 4 days and didn’t notice.
You're right about the response though. Policies will be written and lower level personnel who can be blamed will be fired.
monday is not anymore, a huge number of offices are Tues-Thurs in office and M/F optional/remote (which nearly everyone chooses remote)
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