Lonely death (Kodokushi) at Work

[Tiny]

www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/worker-was-dead-in-belk-department-store-bathroom-for-4-days/ar-AA1256ML?cvid=72718e780c554d8ba2c099abaf9b1f23

A 63-year-old worker died in the public bathroom of a South Carolina department store, but her body was not discovered for four days, authorities said.

Bessie Durham, a janitor at the Belk at Columbiana Centre, was found dead Monday in a bathroom stall, Columbia police said. Her cleaning cart was outside the restroom.

Durham was last seen Thursday at work and her body was found shortly after her family filed a missing person report, Columbia Deputy Police Chief Melron Kelly, told WIS-TV.

This is so sad.   To have a job, to go to that job, to do the work, and to still be invisible.    So. Sad. 

Neither the employer nor her coworkers noticed something was a miss. 
I can't blame the customers who may have used the restroom for not noticing.  

So sad.   

(and people complain about workers wanting better working conditions.) 

[Opti]

It is sad. It is weird that no one looks through the store to make sure people have left. 

[saveinla]

This is so sad.

[Artemis Windsong]

Sept 21, 2022 18:45:07 GMT -5 Opti said:

It is sad. It is weird that no one looks through the store to make sure people have left. 

Some places have to clock in and out. 

I'm sorry for this person and their family.  How hurtful that no one cared enough about their loved one.

[haapai]

My partner has a similar job.  He works for an outside cleaning company and is not on the payroll of the place that employs him. 

I can easily see something similar happening to him.  Nobody who works at the place that he works knows him or feels any responsibility toward him.  His actual bosses wouldn't have a clue where to look for him if he punched in and never punched out.  They probably wouldn't have a clue how to ask someone to review tapes to see if he ever left the work site, especially over a weekend.  Even if they visited the work site in question, over the weekend, they would not recognize his vehicle parked in the lot outside or understand his work routine well enough to know where to search.  His cleaning cart could be parked right outside the supply closet and the waste baskets on his usual route could have gone from almost entirely empty to needing to be emptied and they still would not know to check the supply closet or realize that at this point in his routine, he goes outside to throw trash into the dumpster. 

And then they'd drug-test his 50+ corpse.  I think that there's something rather f'd-up about this chain of events and the decision trees involved.