Wells Fargo employee found dead in cubicle 4 days after she clocked in: ‘She was just lying on her desk’
A Wells Fargo employee in Arizona was found dead at her desk four days after she clocked in.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/41028010
More reason for WFH. If someone can go that long dead without being noticed, they probably don’t need to be in office.
they have a clock in system and it didn't prompt an alert? I'm sure if someone is late they have an alert but working for 4 days is okay
Such an alert would mean someone forgot to clock out before a couple days off 99.9% of the time, not that they were dead at their desk.
That should still trigger an alert. 99.9% of alerts are nothing serious, but it's still worth checking each one briefly, for that 0.1% that's an emergency.
yeah but you kind of lose the purpose of clocking in/out if you let people forget to clock out without notice no?
Clearly you’ve never had to clock in/out. She’ll have several sternly worded emails warning her that time clock fraud won’t be tolerated. All waiting for her when she comes back to life
Knowing two people who formerly worked at Wells Fargo, this sounds about right.
One employee said they want to see new safety protocols in place ... and is calling on Wells Fargo to do more.
How is this at all negligence on the company? How terrible would it be if company policy mandated 15 minute buddy check in system to prevent this? Are we just searching for someone to blame when there may be nobody to blame?
Where'd you get 15 minutes? She was there an entire work day and her boss knew she never swiped into the building and instead of finding out why, just didn't do anything. If my employees are an hour late I'm calling until I find them or someone who can tell me what's going on. It's bad management to not have accountability for your employees. Maybe it's a little personal for me because I have had an employee not show up and it was because she was murdered by her husband but it didn't take us 4 days to realize. We're the ones who called the cops because when an employee doesn't show or call, you find out why.
15 minutes is just reactionary spitballing to exaggerate.
Most of my previous "office work" was primarily back end development, and the approach tended to be hands off from my supervisor. So long as work was getting done in a timely fashion, my hours and daily schedule was up to me. I much preferred that approach as opposed to rigid hours and direct management. I suppose different strokes here.
As someone who made this post and cared to share about this, I feel there is some negligence on behalf of the company. A work system where an employee is in a building and no one has interaction with them at all, over a course of four days, is one that is not working for anyone - the company nor the employee. It is basically a failed system. Maybe it’s not negligence but maybe it is. If a dog is left four days somewhere and it dies, would there be accountability? If a human is left somewhere working for someone and they die, should there be accountability?
Security could check that the person still clocked in actually went home for the night?
