They probably only started looking because they thought she was defrauding the company by not clocking out.
Red_October@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not sure how I feel about this, really. On the one hand it’s depressing as fuck for this to happen to someone, on so many obvious levels. But on the other hand, I would LOVE a job where I am so sufficient left the fuck alone that it would take 4 days for coworkers to realize I was gone.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The “four days” part seems sensationalized… sounds like she clocked in on Friday and was found late Monday. So it seems like at most she wasn’t missed for one business day.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They found her because her corpse started decomposing and it smelled bad. If that hadn’t happened due to better ventilation or whatever, it would have been longer. It’s pretty disturbing either way.
And that’s setting aside that you’d measure her hours dead in “business days” and excuse the company for it? Didn’t you feel gross including that in a sentence about someone? Her body wasn’t being mailed out for shipping. It was decomposing on the office floor, on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. WellsFargo is indeed open on Saturdays for partial services, and they have security every day in their buildings. That it wasn’t “full business days,” is some kind of Corporate Erin speech.
PiousAgnostic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Business days are important because that’s when people work, and would be there to find them. And what’s to excuse? Wells Fargo didn’t kill em. People die, if you find a company that makes you immortal let me know.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I already clarified why they don’t count, due to security being on premises.
Wells Fargo having such bad management and bad work morale/conditions (a criticism towards them that’s been happening for years) that they don’t notice a literal dead body for days is what you’re excusing. It’s not just any company it happened at, it happened at WellsFargo. That’s the point. Or did you forget about their scandal forcing employees to meet quotas for special accounts resulting in employees signing people up who never asked for it? They have a history of bad management and bad employee treatment.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I instead imagine someone from HR pissed storming in her cubicle wanting to shout “hey you need to clock in and clock out every day, ok???”
MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I really don’t think Wells Fargo has any blame in this, this just as easily could have happened to any company. Perhaps it is a problem with corporate America, but what would you say they’re actually negligent of?
it may sound callous and cold, but logistics does end up asking strange questions like “What is a reasonable amount of time to notice that an employee passed away at their desk in a corporate office?” Or “How do we verify that every employee in the building is still alive?”
It’s unfortunate and sad what happened to this woman, but I don’t see how Wells Fargo played any part in this other than to be a rage-bait headline
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wells Fargo having such bad management and bad work morale/conditions (a criticism towards them that’s been happening for years) that they don’t notice a literal dead body for days is what you’re excusing. It’s not just any company it happened at, it happened at WellsFargo. That’s the point. Or did you forget about their scandal forcing employees to meet quotas for special accounts resulting in employees signing people up who never asked for it? They have a history of bad management and bad employee treatment.
Community in this country has been eroded horribly. Even in the workplace it’s discouraged at an authentic level because we might unionize. Don’t you find this concerning as an element of a bigger picture? Remember when companies prized their employees so much they gave them pensions and watches?
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How do you miss a coworker for a whole business then?
shai_hulud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
as a forner wf employee, my nearest teammate was in Arizona and I was in Texas. I didn’t know the other people in the building at all. That plus staggered wfh schedules…i am just speculating about your question
my building was a “ghost town” even before covid, so i can see how it might have happened.
Wade@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The building has 24/7 security though, so if anything it would have been easy to find her on a Saturday or Sunday if they walked around a bit or checked cameras…
orcrist@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That makes it worse. Nobody checks the building Friday night. Safe to assume there is a clock in system, so that means nobody responsible even looked at the time system Friday night, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday morning or evening.