Posted on 05/05/2023 9:49:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
Google Engineer Jumps to His Death from 14th Floor of Company-s NYC HQ
A Google engineer has jumped to his death from the 14th floor of the company headquarters in New York City in what appears to be an apparent suicide.
The man, who has not yet been named, was found on the ground on Thursday’s 15th Street side of the building.
Police found the man unconscious after receiving multiple phone calls about the incident.
The Google engineer was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he later died.
The officer discovered handprints on the 14th-floor ledge, according to one source speaking with the New York Post.
There was no suicide note left behind.
The death is the second Google engineer reportedly taking their own life this year.
In February, fellow coworker Jacob Pratt, 33, was found dead inside his apartment on February 16.
Pratt had apparently taken his own life by hanging, an NYPD source told the New York Post.
Pratt was a partnership leader at the company and had been for a year and a half, and started at Google as an agency manager in May 2019, according to his LinkedIn.
“His interests in advertising and technology lead him to a dream job as an accounting manager at Google in Manhattan,” his obituary said.
Google has laid off roughly 12,000 of its global workforce this year, as many other big tech firms follow suit amid the economic downturn.
As The Daily Mail reported:
Sundar Pichai, Alphabet’s CEO, said the losses affect teams across the company, including recruiting, some corporate functions, and some engineering and products teams.
The mass reduction comes just days after rival Microsoft Corp said it would lay off 10,000 workers, and Amazon started to fire its 18,000 workers as the ‘rich cession’ rips through the world’s biggest firms in recent months.
The most in-demand workers right now are blue-collar employees, while white-collar workers have seen major job losses in the last year.
The phenomenon has been dubbed ‘rich cession’ by those in the field.
Well said.
I lost a family member to suicide.
At the time the family focused on the disgrace. Later I pondered on what he must have been going through to take such a drastic action.
Never did find out why.....
He was a senior officer in the Royal Navy and no doubt anything related to his job would have been hushed up.
Yeah, I thought that was a weird comment. Unless the reporter thinks the guy was pushed.
Thanks for the laugh. Who would have known?
The guy fell out of window? What did he do to upset Vladimir Putin?
Every male suicide by hanging, makes me think “Blue Haze”!
Ala, Robin Williams and David Carradine?
IIRC, Robin Williams chose to end hi own life rather than endure a slow death from a debilitating disease, and Carradine was in a closet trying to get some kind of weird sexual gratification or something like that.
Good post, Persevero.
It is good to keep in mind (hand prints on the ledge aside) that there is always a possibility he didn’t jump of his own accord. There is actually a word for that if he was pushed or thrown from a window: Defenestration.
Or, he may have been intoxicated or showing off and it went bad. One never knows.
That said, I wouldn’t denigrate the person. We know he worked at Google (which is not a positive factor) but for all we know, he could have been a potential whistleblower.
But things sometimes are what they seem.
“Considering all the Shenanigans they are alleged to havevbeen involved in, could this be a form of Arkancide?”
My fist thought was that he was the tech that ‘wiped’ Hillary’s! server with a cloth...and currently started yapping about it!
*SNORT*
I have worked at the same place since 1985, and not one co worker has committed suicide....
“in what appears to be an apparent suicide.”
Now that’s some journalism right there.
Googlcide.................
First Man: Oh yeah. (another falls past) Hey. That was Wilkins of finance.
Second Man: Oh, no, that was Robertson.
First Man: Wilkins.
Second Man: Robertson.
First Man: Wilkins.
Second Man: Robertson.
(Another falls.)
First Man: That was Wilkins.
Second Man: That was Wilkins. He was a good, good, er, golfer, Wilkins.
First Man: Very good golfer. Very good golfer. Rotten at finance. It’ll be Parkinson next.
Second Man: Bet you it won’t.
First Man: How much.
Second Man: What?
First Man: How much do you bet it won’t? Fiver?
Second Man: All right.
First Man: Done.
Second Man: You’re on.
First Man: Fine. (shakes; they look at the window) Come on Parky.
Second Man: Don’t do it Parky.
First Man: Come on Parky. Jump Parky. Jump.
Second Man: Come on now be sensible Parky.
That is we did not feel like waiting on the coroner so had him transported.
Are the sure he wasn’t pushed put by Goooooogle?
1. took the clot shot, or
2. knew too much on the Clintons, or
3. showed of his new iPhone to his coworkers
Maybe someone used the wrong pronouns.
” in what appears to be an apparent suicide.”
Redundancy of the week!
“The most in-demand workers right now are blue-collar employees, while white-collar workers have seen major job losses in the last year.”
Good news, and I say this as a white-collar worker.
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