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[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 51 points 10 months ago

More reason for WFH. If someone can go that long dead without being noticed, they probably don’t need to be in office.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 7 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

yeah but you kind of lose the purpose of clocking in/out if you let people forget to clock out without notice no?

[–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Knowing two people who formerly worked at Wells Fargo, this sounds about right.

[–] Darrell_Winfield@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Darrell_Winfield@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] stoneparchment@possumpat.io 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Dude, what? I might be misunderstanding but there's a huge difference between 15 minutes and four days? Or even between "hands off" supervision and no one looking to see why she hadn't clocked in or out for DAYS? Or even just looking in the cubical?

Like... The employer definitely bears responsibility for being this neglectful. It goes way beyond "hands off" lol

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago

That's pretty fair. If she was an ofp employee I can see why her boss might not have tabs for 4 days but reading that she was a fairly new hire I assumed she'd be under closer supervision for awhile.

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Security could check that the person still clocked in actually went home for the night?