Office worker dead at her desk for 4 days

[geeman237]

A bank worker aged 60 was found dead at her desk after 4 days in the USA. What an awful thing to happen for all.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08...

[NWTony]

geeman237 said:

A bank worker aged 60 was found dead at her desk after 4 days in the USA. What an awful thing to happen for all.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08...

Yeah but her last pay check is going to contain sooooo much overtime, so every cloud and all that.

[KAgantua]

Makes you wonder what the actual work being done there was, that you didnt notice your floor receptionist was dead for four days?

'An underpopulated area of the buliidng'

Er... so why does it need a receptionist?
Crazy but RIP

[LastPoster]

It’s Friday to Monday so quite easy for her to have been ok as the later leavers went through reception on Friday afternoon, then taken ill afterwards. Then found Monday morning.

However over on LinkedIn, this can’t possibly have happened and it’s a covered up murder

Very sad that no one missed her in her life outside of work though

Edit, my error. Not discovered until Tuesday

Edited by LastPoster on Sunday 1st September 12:27

[irc]

Is that better or worse than the person who died in a hospital cafe where rigor mortis had set in before any of the passing medical professionals noticed he was dead.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/cos...

[LimaDelta]

Reminds me of the old joke...

"My wife just died."
"Oh, I'm sorry. Was it sudden?"
"Well, I didn't notice at first. The sex was the same, but the washing just kept piling up."

[Alex Z]

NWTony said:

Yeah but her last pay check is going to contain sooooo much overtime, so every cloud and all that.

My first thought was the opposite. Someone at the bank will want to know time of death so they can make sure she only gets paid for the hours she was still alive.

[Gareth79]

KAgantua said:

Makes you wonder what the actual work being done there was, that you didnt notice your floor receptionist was dead for four days?

'An underpopulated area of the buliidng'

Er... so why does it need a receptionist?
Crazy but RIP

It doesn't say she was a receptionist, it looks to have been a large admin/office building so she probably worked in a cubicle with high walls in a position where few people walked past.

[dvs_dave]

She clocked in on Friday, died in a quiet part of a large office building, and wasn’t discovered until Tuesday. Given most US firms operate hybrid working these days, hardly anyone goes into the office Fridays and Mondays. I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more, tbh.