DOWNEY (KTLA) -- An L.A. County employee apparently died while working in her cubicle on Friday, but no one noticed for quite some time. 51-year-old Rebecca Wells was found by a security guard on Saturday afternoon. She was slumped over on her desk in the L.A. County Department of Internal Services. The last time a co-worker saw her alive was Friday morning around 9:00 a.m., according to Downy police detectives.
This is what I keep telling everyone, life on the cube farm is serious. It's life and death in here every single day. One day you're checking in Friday morning, dreams of the weekend ahead of you, the next you're found dead by the illegal cleaning crew without anyone even noticing. And obviously the office didn't even skip a beat, didn't notice she wasn't at lunch for god sakes. What kind of animals do we work with that don't even check to see if you want to come to lunch with them. It's a hard life being a desk donkey, for real.
And the hell if her boss was going to notice. Probably just figured she was swamped when she never checked in throughout the day and passed on her work to the next interchangeable pawn. No sweat off his back, and nor should their be. He paid his dues at one time or another, made his way through the cutthroat cubicle wars all the way to an office with no windows. The hell if he's going to look back and take sympathy on any pathetic underlings when no one took an interest in him coming up.
So let this serve in a lesson to all of you who think I'm joking when I talk about how much working every day in a corporate cube sucks. Don't let Rebecca die in vain, for you college seniors, think of her every time you're tempted to just take that boring desk job "until you find out what you really want to do." You'll regret it when you end up dead, facedown on your keyboard as some Spanish lady tries to dust around your body.
