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Coffee Time employee lay dead behind counter for 5 daysThursday, 20 August 2015 14:57
Written by Aaron Hagey-Mackay
TORONTO - An employee of the restaurant chain Coffee Time, at the intersection of Lansdowne and Dupont, lay dead behind the counter for over 120 hours before someone finally noticed.
The body of Jose Elijah Mendez, 41, was discovered hunched over the counter with his face in his palms by an undercover police officer waiting for an informant. He leaves behind no family.
“The officer noted Mr. Mendez two days earlier, assuming the man was simply profoundly depressed by virtue of having to work at Coffee Time,” said Toronto Police Services spokeswoman Cst. Cynthia Wyman.
“It was only upon the officer arriving at the location late last night to find Mr. Mendez in the exact same position and in a more advanced state of decay that the deceased was finally recognized as such.”
Security camera footage places the time of death five days prior when Mendez seemingly put his head down to take a nap during an early morning shift.
Police say the six other employees, including the manager, who came in and out of the building over that time as his body lay motionless simply hadn’t noticed Mendez acting in an unusual manner, noting the usual “dead stare in his eyes shared by the rest of [the employees],” said one worker.
With Mendez assumed on shift, staff went about their daily business of tending to the rarely purchased coffee and donuts while vainly attempting to ignore the soul destroying pit human anguish of their Kafkaesque place of employment.
The cause of Mendez’s death has yet to be determined, however security footage shows the man drinking Coffee Time coffee twenty minutes before his passing.
“I remember coming into my shift and being like, ‘hey, Jose, man, you’re getting fat!’” said Darmayne Johnson, a co-worker of Mendez’s.
“How was I supposed to know that the body bloats from internal decomposition days after dying, man? I had to Wikipedia that shit.”
When asked if this unfortunate incident would negatively impact Coffee Time’s public image, the head office responded by asking, “Is that a joke?”
However, in an email response from the company, a Coffee Time representative said, “Mr. Mendez’s passing is deeply regrettable. It is always a sad occasion when one of our employees loses their life in the line of duty. As is our policy in this matter, Mr. Mendez will be honoured with a posthumous employee of the month plaque.”
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Coffee Time employee lay dead behind counter for 5 daysThursday, 20 August 2015 14:57
Written by Aaron Hagey-Mackay
TORONTO - An employee of the restaurant chain Coffee Time, at the intersection of Lansdowne and Dupont, lay dead behind the counter for over 120 hours before someone finally noticed.
The body of Jose Elijah Mendez, 41, was discovered hunched over the counter with his face in his palms by an undercover police officer waiting for an informant. He leaves behind no family.
“The officer noted Mr. Mendez two days earlier, assuming the man was simply profoundly depressed by virtue of having to work at Coffee Time,” said Toronto Police Services spokeswoman Cst. Cynthia Wyman.
“It was only upon the officer arriving at the location late last night to find Mr. Mendez in the exact same position and in a more advanced state of decay that the deceased was finally recognized as such.”
Security camera footage places the time of death five days prior when Mendez seemingly put his head down to take a nap during an early morning shift.
Police say the six other employees, including the manager, who came in and out of the building over that time as his body lay motionless simply hadn’t noticed Mendez acting in an unusual manner, noting the usual “dead stare in his eyes shared by the rest of [the employees],” said one worker.
With Mendez assumed on shift, staff went about their daily business of tending to the rarely purchased coffee and donuts while vainly attempting to ignore the soul destroying pit human anguish of their Kafkaesque place of employment.
The cause of Mendez’s death has yet to be determined, however security footage shows the man drinking Coffee Time coffee twenty minutes before his passing.
“I remember coming into my shift and being like, ‘hey, Jose, man, you’re getting fat!’” said Darmayne Johnson, a co-worker of Mendez’s.
“How was I supposed to know that the body bloats from internal decomposition days after dying, man? I had to Wikipedia that shit.”
When asked if this unfortunate incident would negatively impact Coffee Time’s public image, the head office responded by asking, “Is that a joke?”
However, in an email response from the company, a Coffee Time representative said, “Mr. Mendez’s passing is deeply regrettable. It is always a sad occasion when one of our employees loses their life in the line of duty. As is our policy in this matter, Mr. Mendez will be honoured with a posthumous employee of the month plaque.”
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