This week at work we found out that a man in his very early 60's died at home. His son found him on the floor of his home. He came to work that day, went home and that was it... the end of his journey of life. He had worked here for a long time and I would assume with his age, he was looking fwd to retirement soon.
Last night I heard from my friend that yet another woman from work came to work all in a shuffle... blouse buttoned wrong, hair a mess.. just not herself. An employee asked if she was okay, she said no. They took her to the hospital emergency room to find out she has had a stroke.. and during the testing also found a tumor on her brain. This woman is in her forties.
Less than a year ago another woman in her early fifties who had worked there for almost 25 years died of cancer. She was diagnosed and within a few months she was gone.
I have only worked at this place for a little over 7 years and I have seen I bet with no exageration at least 20 people die from stroke, heart attacks, cancer. Some have just dropped right at work.. well maybe 2 or 3.. in the last 7 years. To me this is a bit rare and "too often".
Yes this is a big place I work at, it employs maybe 1,200 people, but still the odds of this many people getting sick and dying like this is just unreal. It has a lot of us wondering what is going on... you know like the "Erin Brockovich" movie or something.
There is just too many people in too short of a time... here today and gone tomorrow.. no warning no nothing.. just gone.
It scares the heck out of me, but it is not a place I can afford to quit and walk away from. I would think if it was something "in the air" that OSHA would have found it as they have to inspect the place. I don't know if most is just "stress" related as this place can easily get to you. I don't know if maybe it is the long hours that some put in.. like 70 hours a week. Maybe a combination of it all. I don't know if any of this would cause you go get cancer, but I suppose it could help bring it on faster if you had it. Its just too many people dying too young with no previous illness or warnings.
Anybody got any ideas, opinions?
