If you have an employee who dies at work and you don't notice for 4 days, it kinda kills your argument that people need to return to the office.

Just sayin'

It's more likely my corpse would be discovered at home because I missed a Teams meeting.

I thought all those middle managers were supposed to be doing some important middle managing or something.

@TheBierFrau ...what brought on that thought?
Why The Death Of The Wells Fargo Employee Found At Work Is So Jarring

There's a profound and collective sadness in the death of the Wells Fargo employee who scanned into work and never scanned out.

Forbes
@TheBierFrau Ah. When I heard about that I assumed it was a working from home situation. Thank you

@Anke @TheBierFrau

That’s a surprisingly good article… at most corporations you really are number to them, an asset to exploit: except large corporations are remarkably wasteful places, and workers are recognizing and reacting to the disconnect.
The managers think they of they just have you under their thumb enough they will strip you of every last scrap of value.

How office managers see their work…

@DavidM_yeg @Anke yeah, when even Forbes is turning on you, you've lost the plot.
@TheBierFrau A friend worked at GE for a while, and said that the organization was big enough that you could spend your career (such as it is) doing nothing if you were clever.
@TheBierFrau some pundit will probably flip it to: preventing this kind of thing is why everyone needs to be back in the office.
@kimu @TheBierFrau Did you read the article? The company says she sat in an “underpopulated” area. That is def the framework for forcing everyone back in to the office as well as shifting the blame onto the victim for not being found for four days.
@LGsMom @kimu @TheBierFrau Yeah, I already heard one news report that was spinning it as being the fault of employees working remotely who used to sit in cubicles near her pre-covid.

@PedestrianError @LGsMom @kimu @TheBierFrau Seems like a problem with the office janitorial and security teams, not with the presence or absence of WFH people. The security team didn't notice her for four days. The janitors didn't notice her.

Why didn't someone check the entire office, including that cubicle farm, every day?

@TheBierFrau where is this from / what is this about? 👀
@TheBierFrau I'm sure corpos would be happier for folks to die from overwork at home
@mauve @TheBierFrau then they wouldn't have to call a cleanup crew. 😐
@TheBierFrau I want to know more about their security systems. How could someone acan in but not scan out and NOT be caught for four days? Or until she was found dead at her desk? Where were the security patrols? Cleaning crews? And blaming the victim for “sitting in an underpopulated area?” WTAF???

@LGsMom @TheBierFrau I figured the unpopulated area comment was a dig on all the co-workers who were selfish enough not to work from the office so they'd notice when she died.

I also wondered about security and cleaning crew, both of whom I'd expect would go through every area at least once a day, except maybe on weekends.

@LGsMom @TheBierFrau the janitors are union and don’t work holidays.
@TheBierFrau @bowreality along the lines of “this meeting could’ve been an email,” “this death could’ve happened on a couch”
@TheBierFrau they don’t care otherwise they would have noticed