“This guy was very high, tried to rob a house of a military vet.
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It was the early 1980s so no cell phones back then.
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Then he doesnt show up for work for 2-3 days without any notice.
She got worried and decided to go to his home and she asked me to go with her.
It was in the evening and dark when we got there.
He lived on the 2nd floor of a house converted to a 2 flat.
We could see there were lights on upstairs but there was no response to our ringing the bell.
When I got up there I could see the gentleman laying on the bathroom floor.
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I could see he was slightly swollen and obviously deceased even from a distance of about 20 feet.
At that point we called the police.
heckydog
2.
Most just did weed but a few did hard stuff.
This guy was always showing up early, even volunteering for double shifts.
One day he didnt show up.
Then another two days.
Boss calls him and tells him his fired he didnt answer.
Next day read the newspaper.
This guy was very high, tried to rob a house of a military vet.
Nukemind
3.
My father smelled his coworkers rotting corpse
Not me, but my dad.
He finally decided to go to his house to see if he was alright.
He went to the house, but then went inside after he smelled something disgusting.
Both the worker and his girlfriend had overdosed on heroin, and had just been rotting for days.
Lord_Apollk
4.
My dad was devastated, they were super close and he even knew the boyfriend.
ill_jay
5.
One of our electricians diedduringthe job
I am a supervisor at a major auto factory.
Had an electrician not show up after lunch.
metzd87
6.
She died in a freak car collision
This was back in 2006.
I had hired three people for phone sales positions.
One girl, two guys.
The girl never showed up first day or day after.
She was only 18.
That was probably the worst phone conversation Ive had to have with someone.
kiddykatsmackattack
7.
He got hit by a truck on his way to work
Story from my boss.
He hired a new kid and he was going great.
One day buddy didnt show up so he called his house to find out where he is.
He thought maybe he slept in or whatnot, nope.
She committed suicide after being abused
Not the boss, but worked at a place where this happened.
Well call the girls Cathy and Maggie.
Cathy didnt show up for her shift.
The next day Maggie comes in looking like she has been crying all day.
Cathy had killed herself as it turns out.
Unfortunately, well never know her reasons because the note she left was destroyed by all the blood.
stoli80pr
9.
She left about midnight and it was rainy.
I was managing at the time but in the mornings.
She didnt not show up though, her family called that morning to let us know…
Her fist son was only 1, her and her husband were basically still newlyweds.
Im_a_lion_babe
10.
Very reliable, very meticulous as all good accountants are.
The first un-notified day off was a surprise, but we didnt check up until the second or third.
Had no close family or friends.
We were actually the ones to have the police investigate his house.
He died of a heart attack alone in his home.
JohnnyCharisma54
11.
He sent us a message on social media after his death
Something I can answer.
I manage our locations social media among other things.
Perplexed, I call the guy, and his son answered.
Apparently part of his will was to send us a Facebook message.nofilmincamera
12.
I ordered business cards for him, got his office ready.
He didnt show up, which was surprising because he was very reliable and dependable.
Then I was told that he had died of a heart attack over the weekend.
It was so weird to throw his business cards away when they arrived.
TeaAndCrackers
13.
The owner tries to get into contact with her but no reply.
She assumed that this woman had enough and rage quit like so many others.
A few days later, the womans adult son calls us up to let us know she passed away.
It was very sad.
Choactapus
14.
After his shift, he grabbed his schedule and said hed see me the next day.
He swerved to miss it but hit a tree instead.
He died in the hospital.
We had this employee, Jay, from Poland.
He was always a bit of a nightmare to manage because he was always on the booze.
Hed never drink in work but as soon as he got home hed go and get pissed.
He also had a heart condition discovered just a few months before.
Come Boxing Day this he didnt turn up for his shift.
This was the final straw for my boss and he put him on a final warning.
He never showed up to his shift on December 30th.
Because he liked to drink we all assumed hed been on a bender and was hungover.
At this point he was all but sacked.
He hadnt contacted anyone in all that time which was also out of character.
I decided to swing by his place to see if he was alright.
Because he hadnt updated his personal details I didnt have his house number, just his housing estate.
Ended up walking around for over 2hrs on that estate looking for him asking if anyone knew him.
Finally met an old lady who knew who he was.
She took me to his flat.
The front door was locked so I tried the back and it was open.
There he was, dressed in his PJs.
Hed been dead for 3 days.
Turned out to have been heart failure.
Cozzers
16. Letters sent to set up a personal meeting which he did a no show on.
A week later it was on the news that a body had been found and it was him.
paullaroy
17.
He killed himself the night before work
I worked at a grocery store a few years ago.
He had committed suicide the night before right after work.
I never got the full story.
The supervisors wouldnt let us talk or gossip about it.
I think he was only like 20 years old.
Cheesy678
18.
We didnt know for a couple days, eventually it was in the paper.
He had a tendency of not showing up some days because of it.
We had a long weekend and he didnt show up on Tuesday.
Thursday rolls around and still nothing.
Friday morning our director goes to his place.
He lived alone in a run down trailer by a nearby lake.
Dead as can be.
uni-monkey
20.
I was stoked to see him.
He didnt come in one day and everyone was like where is he?
Turns out the dude had really bad sleep apnea and legitimately suffocated in his sleep.
We found out because his wife called to let us know.
He died of an asthma attack during a jog
My cousin died of an asthma attack.
Hed been jogging… without his inhaler.
Someone found him on their lawn near a jogging trail.
Then just on a hunch, he called the morgue.
No ID on him.
mikeymikeymikey1968
22.
Since shed been working for us about eight months, for her it was like we never existed.
She didnt die, at least, but in some ways it still felt like it.
goreycat
23.
He stopped coming in one day and I just assumed he had quit.
She didnt even know he worked there, just saw that he had videos and wanted to return them.
Dude was maybe late 20s early 30s and it was completely unexpected.
explosivo85
24.
He died and was still expected to come to work
Worked in retail hell.
We had an old guy that took every shift ever.
Basically, management started relying on him.
Boss lady tells me to call and ask why the fuck Otis hasnt come into work.
I called the number he gave us.
A man picks up and says Otis died last night.
I tell my boss.
She asks, Can he still come in?
It took me twenty minutes to explain to her that he died.
No longer with us.
Every time she just kept asking him to come in.
We need someone to pick up his shifts.
Can his son come pick them up?
No overtime, holiday pay, or breaks (they often… forgot about breaks.)
I said no because I had school.
They asked me why I havent I dropped out yet.
After that, I just said I quit and walked out.
Last thing I heard as I was walking out as management asking if Otis can come in.
That old man had balls of steel.
He got fired,becauseof his death
My dad worked with this guy.
He was never late, never called in and he didnt show up to work.
No call no show in the casino means they fire you.
His family tried to get his life insurance but it was cancelled due to him being fired.
The casino tried to say he had to call in if he missed work, no exceptions.
I guess being dead is merely a slight inconvenience and you still need to call in to work.
