https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/usaa-employee-death-on-campus-18334077.php
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The messaging from management is terrible - but it's how every big org does crisis management.
Got the last minute team huddle yesterday where the boss "debunked" the rumors, saying it wasn't a g-nshot, stop spreading rumors. But the boss never said what it was. Not that I have morbid curiosity about how it happened, but when you tell people that "X is false, don't say X" and you don't actually say what is true, it doesn't help anyone to trust you. It just makes everybody think that you don't respect them enough to treat them like adults.
It's almost as if everyone in the corporate communications and marketing functions in every single large company are insufferably condescending a--holes who don't understand that humans might be different from cattle.
It's in the San Antonio Express News now too: "USAA employee dies by su----e at company headquarters on Northwest Side"
https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/usaa-su----e-man-jumped-parking-garage-18334091.php
In all fairness, having heard firsthand many years ago, but when someone jumps from something high enough it can sounds like a g-nshot within distance.
Su----e by jumping confirmed. I was skeptical of the shady articles from the moment they were posted and was down voted to oblivion each time I raised suspicion.
This is why we need to be skeptical of what we read online. The g-nshot rumor spread like wildfire as if it was verified fact.
Many won't see this article and will go on spreading the lie that he shot himself.
May he rest in peace and may his family find peace.