The “four days” part seems sensationalized… sounds like she clocked in on Friday and was found on Tuesday. So it seems like at most she wasn’t missed for one business day.
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. “Business days” are for communicating a timeline on goods, they are not for excusing company negligence with DEAD PEOPLE.
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.
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.
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???”
This actually happened at an old job of mine. It was a small clinic I worked at, about 30 employees. Someone reliable didn’t show up one day, and we were all friendly/friends anyway, so the person closest with her drove to her house to wake her up or give her a ride, whatever. She was dead.
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
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.
Yes, companies should be structured in a way that involves managers managing. A manager’s job is literally to monitor performance. This is the negligent part of WellsFargo since there is obviously someone in charge of her, probably multiple entities if we include HR and security. Her manager probably even saw the time clock anomaly and edited it without checking on her desk. Then she no call no shows Monday and Tuesday and there’s no one checking her desk then. They checked due to smell. That’s shitty management, somewhere.
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?
Last, news articles like this about companies are meant to move money around primarily. Articles about companies that are publicly traded get picked up by traders and trading bots. So a lot of people may want to pull their money out hearing this newest scandal after everything else, creating volatility in their stock which allows for better money making via options trading.
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.