Did she have a red Swingline Desk Stapler?
a lot of offices are empty on friday post covid, much less over the weekend
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.
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.
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.
Came in on a Friday. Died on Friday. Was ignored over the weekend (Sat-Sunday). Discovered Monday.
Now? All we can do is pray for her soul, her family. (If she had one - Many of today’s California-office-lifestyle women have killed their babies, left their former (or never had) husbands, do not keep in contact with any family still living.)
Note that not did her workers on that floor not notice she died, her boss, her boss’s boss, AND her family did not notice she died. Sad.
A very sad story. Sixty is way too young to go. It’s easy to become sedentary and overlooked working in a cubicle.
I wonder if she was one of the “essential” employees? Meaning, the work she did required her to be onsite. I wonder if someone noticed her car but was not responding to emails?
Do welfare checks typically include visiting the employee’s workspace and all restrooms across the campus?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Vincent
Joyce Carol Vincent (19 October 1965 – December 2003) was an English woman whose death went unnoticed for more than two years.
Neighbours had assumed the flat was unoccupied, and the odour of decomposing body tissue was attributed to nearby waste bins.
My branch bank has become a mausoleum.
Before the scamdemic it always had at least three tellers any time of day.
Three people in the lobby at desks to handle questions.
Drive thru had at least two, sometimes four tellers to handle four different lanes.
I don’t give it another year.
Last time I was there it had one at desk, one walk-in teller and one drive thru teller.
The card scanner system should have had a function enabled to alert security and management if a card was scanned in for over X hours and not scanned out.X being a variable set according to overtime policy.
All too many security officers are poorly trained,lazy,and incompetent.So building checks are too often cursory rather than thorough.
I know because of working with and attempting to train such people.
And it is mostly about money; security is seen as “non-productive” expense by the client so chooses the low bidder. The low bidder hires mostly people desparate for a paycheck but pays low wages and gives minimal training.Not only those things but I have been sent persons grossly obese or with other issues that in reality prevented them from making the required patrols of the grounds or buildings.Others could not,or would not, learn and remember fairly simple duties.
Better pay,much better training,more scructiny and careful selection and a philosophy of firm but compassionate continual improvement in job performance are all needed.
I have seen too many times that the only accomplished purpose of training documents was obtaining the employee signature,regardless of the training absorbed or even given.
People get so excited when they hear she was dead for four days. They don’t know anything about how the office was laid out, or how many cubicles were actually in use. She went in on Friday. She was there over the weekend when nobody else would have seen her. That’s almost three of the four days. Then all of the people working from home wouldn’t have noticed her and only the people who were there would have any idea that someone had died in the office, and that would be because they would smell her. But let me post an entirely unimportant screed about how Wells Fargo is negligent because an employee had a heart attack or stroke on a Friday and nobody noticed.
I have worked with people that it would have taken longer to notice. The level of work would performed not have been much different.
Died suddenly?
I could see this easily in a cubicle farm situation
Depending on the position of her body, and if she tended to arrive early that her body could be there for days before someone noticed
Discovery not happening until the third day is not all that surprising. The 4th day is very odd.