Posted on 02/18/2011 6:42:22 AM PST by KeyLargo
Woman dies at desk, but nobody notices
Last Modified: Feb 18, 2011 04:52AM
Perhaps if it hadn’t happened on a Friday, this sad tale wouldn’t have come to pass.
As Los Angeles County employee Rebecca Walls toiled on a risk analysis audit, she apparently died at her desk, but nobody noticed her body until the next day.
Co-workers described her as tireless. Always “working, working, working.” Clearly so hard that none of those cube farm co-habitants noticed she may not have been breathing when they left work.
While the Los Angeles County Coroner investigates the cause of death of the 51-year-old, one thing is clear: You may just be lucky if not noticing how hard you work is the only thing that escapes your officemates’ eyes.
Was it Ida Blankenship...?
Welp, there goes my joke.
Government employee. I’m not surprised noone noticed.
Article on the same subject gets posted for the umpteenth time and nobody notices.
Did anyone take her stapler?
Heh, heh. Her red stapler, no doubt.
Te fact is that a large percentage of county workers sleep on the job, at their desks. Nobody wanted to wake her.
LOL!
Article on the same subject gets posted for the umpteenth time and nobody notices.
In general, Americans are not as thoughtful as some other cultures about taking a moment to say goodbye or goodnight to each other when everyone leaves. It’s a lesson I learned, in part, from my Japanese exchange students. If anyone had bothered to speak to her as they left, maybe this would not have happened.
“In general, Americans are not as thoughtful as some other cultures about taking a moment to say goodbye or goodnight to each other when everyone leaves. It’s a lesson I learned, in part, from my Japanese exchange students”
We travel the U.S. frequently and our experience with Japanese tourists is just the opposite. We have found many of them to be rude and inconsiderate especially when walking in a crowd.
Maybe it is just due to the culture that they were raised in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XfVl6_R7_k
I spent some time in a German factory and I didn't notice them saying goodbye either. However the famously prompt Germans were just as prompt leaving at 5:00 as they were arriving in the morning. 4:59 and everyone was working diligently at their workstations. 5:01 and the only people left on the floor were me and my American coworker along with the two bosses. Maybe they all said their goodbyes in the hallway or the parking lot, but I didn't hear so much as a single Wiedersehen in the office.
“Actions speak louder than words.”
I swear, as soon as I saw the headline I said to myself, “government worker.”
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