# Walmart employee found dead in Walk in Oven **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 24, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150 "2024-10-24T14:46:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/121 "2024-10-27T05:57:48Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > That sounds ominous We also use that room as a lactation room for employees who need to pump breast milk during their shift. I assume that’s why no cameras in there. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/122 "2024-10-27T06:05:33Z")
That would make a lot more sense. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/123 "2024-10-27T07:39:26Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > The cameras are for the sales floor or other places where theft is likely to occur. Do you think theft doesn’t occur in the back rooms? Actually, who knows with Walmart? They’re cheap bastards and worse than other big box stores. The store I work in (not a Walmart) does have cameras in the back room, including around dangerous machinery. They’ve recorded accidents, thefts, and assaults. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/124 "2024-10-27T11:24:59Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Because it gets exhausted outside, not throughout the store. I thought it was customary to waft baking odors throughout stores to entice customers to buy bread. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/125 "2024-10-27T11:48:23Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > …busted a Little Debbie vendor who’d stolen about $80,000 worth of product from us That’s a whole lotta Debbie. mmm ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/126 "2024-10-27T13:34:59Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > That sounds ominous… You’d understand the need if you’d ever seen **Severance**. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/127 "2024-10-27T13:36:32Z")
Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/128 "2024-10-27T13:42:16Z")
Not really. I’ve read that cinnabun intentionally installs the smallest ventilation system code will allow so the odor of the rolls drifts around malls, but in general, bakers try to properly ventilate their ovens. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/129 "2024-10-27T16:15:41Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Do you think theft doesn’t occur in the back rooms? I very clearly wrote “the sales floor **or other places where theft is likely to occur**.” This was also addressed again a few posts later, which is why it’s a good idea to finish reading a thread before posting. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/130 "2024-10-27T16:19:48Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > I thought it was customary to waft baking odors throughout stores to entice > customers to buy bread Only in a very few places, like the Cinnabon example already mentioned. Otherwise you’re going to have a big problem the first time something burns and the smoke alarms go off. And things do burn, even with pre-programmed baking times/temperatures. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/131 "2024-10-27T17:13:53Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > As all true crime fans’ SOs know, murders fail to destroy the evidence by burning (or roasting) the body, since very few house fires raise it to crematory levels. Strangulation breaks the hyoid bone, suffocation causes excess fluid in the pleural tissue, etc. The only undetectable cause of death is when the ME doesn’t bother to detect for it. And now they test for many more things that have achieved notoriety (ruining it for those few wives who knew what a regular lacing of his morning coffee with Visine can achieve). What do “SOs” and “ME” mean in this context? ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/132 "2024-10-27T17:19:12Z")
SO = Significant Other (e.g. spouse, jilted soon-to-be ex, etc. and often the primary suspect) ME = Medical Examiner (e.g. the mortician responsible for running tests to figure out cause of death) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/133 "2024-10-27T17:22:50Z")
Significant Other: one who shares a couch with an aficionado and thereby absorbs expertise in various topics. ME: medical examiner. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/134 "2024-10-27T17:25:24Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > SO = Significant Other (e.g. spouse, jilted soon-to-be ex, etc. and often the primary suspect) Yes and my take on it is that @Slithy_Tove is the SO of a true-crime fan, hence he’s picked up on the medical details that the killer never thinks about ahead of time. Ninja-ed! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/135 "2024-10-27T20:50:55Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Just so long as we’re all clear that we are still very much in the uncertainty/speculation phase, not the probability/conclusory stage. We’re definitely not in the conclusory stage yet, but it’s always the probability stage. That’s what probability is: A discussion of things you don’t know yet. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/136 "2024-11-18T17:27:07Z")
Halifax police have advised that no foul play is suspected. > **[Halifax police say no evidence of foul play in death of employee at Walmart...](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7383140)** > > Halifax police say the death of a 19-year-old woman found dead last month inside a piece of equipment in the bakery at a Walmart is not suspicious and there is no evidence of foul play. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/137 "2024-11-18T19:05:34Z")
They must have some idea how this happened. A safety bulletin should be written and circulated. Try and ensure this doesn’t happen to anyone else. > [@](#): > > It said a stop-work order on the oven and bakery area at the Walmart store on Mumford Road was lifted after the oven was "assessed and determined to have been operating as per the manufacturer’s requirements. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/138 "2024-11-18T19:28:15Z")
I would imagine they’ll get to that after the investigation is done. In the mean time, as you quoted, the oven works fine, so there’s not ongoing concern it’s going to happen again. WAG, it’s suicide or otherwise self inflicted. When they say it was assessed and determined to have been operating as per the manufacturer’s requirements, I’m assuming that means the internal door release works properly. “No foul play” suggests it wasn’t a murder and saying that no one else was involved implies someone didn’t, for example, accidentally turn it on while she was in there. IMHO, this is all pointing at suicide. If they can do a toxicology screen during the autopsy, I wouldn’t be surprised to find that she had sleeping pills or some other type of depressant in her system. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/139 "2024-11-19T22:05:16Z")
> **[Investigators Offer Update in Tragic Story of Teen Employee Found Dead in...](https://toofab.com/2024/11/19/employee-dead-walmart-oven-no-foul-play/)** > > 19-year-old Gursimran Kaur was found dead inside a walk-in oven at a Walmart store in Halifax, Nova Scotia, reportedly by her mother, who was also an employee. > According to the police department, the Department of Labor and medical examiner service are continuing to look into the case, but as police “do not believe the death to be suspicious,” they will be offering no further updates, “out of respect for the family.” ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150/140 "2024-11-19T22:57:23Z")
Suuuuure. Color me suspicious as hell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-employee-found-dead-in-walk-in-oven/1009150.md?page=8)