{"id":79,"date":"2007-04-26T20:02:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T20:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/?p=79"},"modified":"2007-04-26T20:11:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T20:11:12","slug":"romanian-media-debates-death-of-ey-exhausted-young-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/2007\/04\/26\/romanian-media-debates-death-of-ey-exhausted-young-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanian media debates death of E&#038;Y &#8220;exhausted&#8221; young manager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Ffulgerica.com%2Fen%2F2007%2F04%2F26%2Fromanian-media-debates-death-of-ey-exhausted-young-manager%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"fulgerica\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/2007\/04\/26\/romanian-media-debates-death-of-ey-exhausted-young-manager\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"arial12negru\"><font class=\"arial12negru\">Romanian media on Thursday debates the death of Raluca Stroescu, a young manager for Ernst&amp;Young Romania, whose passing was blamed by a newspaper earlier this week on exhaustion at work. Raluca was buried at a cemetery in Ploiesti, north of Bucharest in the presence of the family and hundreds of young people yesterday.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><font class=\"arial12negru\">Experts could not provide clear information on the causes of her death on Tuesday and Wednesday and that the necessary data will be available within weeks, but told reporters that she might have died of heart failure.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font class=\"arial12negru\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evz.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Evenimentul Zilei<\/a> newspaper on Wednesday reported that the background cause of the death was physical exhaustion as she was working too much for a salary of a couple of thousand euro, which is a very good salary in Romania.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font class=\"arial12negru\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardianul.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gardianul<\/a> on Thursday quotes Raluca\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s former colleagues who say that prior to her death she \u00e2\u20ac\u0153was looking like a ghost. She was in a hurry. She had to put up a report\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. According to the newspaper, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Raluca had worked so hard to become somebody until she collapsed. Still, who is to blame?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><!-- BBmedia one2many Position: hotnews.ro(13) \/ pressreview(7) \/ patrat(1) \/ rectangle 300x250(7) --><font class=\"arial12negru\"> <!-- HowTo: Place this code into the html page there the ad should appear. --><\/font><\/p>\n<p id=\"bmone2n-13.7.1.7\"><font class=\"arial12negru\"> <noscript>&amp;lt;div style=&#8217;display:inline&#8217;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&#8217;http:\/\/ad2.ip.ro\/please\/redirect\/13\/7\/1\/7\/&#8217;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=&#8217;http:\/\/ad2.ip.ro\/please\/showit\/13\/7\/1\/7\/?typkodu=img&amp;keywords=&#8217; width=&#8217;300&#8242; height=&#8217;250&#8242; style=&#8217;border-width:0&#8242; alt=&#8221; \/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;<\/noscript><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font class=\"arial12negru\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Is it worth dying for a salary of 2,000 euro?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evz.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Evenimentul Zilei<\/a> wonders in its edition today. The newspaper reports that Raluca\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death has sparked a huge public response about the conditions of work Romanian employees have to cope with and whether is it a good thing to abandon personal life for the sake of money and career.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font class=\"arial12negru\">The issue of career opportunities and what one can do to seize them is very hot in Romania where economy has been booming for years and salaries are still low compared to other countries, prompting major companies abroad to relocate businesses here.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font class=\"arial12negru\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gandul.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gandul<\/a> quotes a doctor who examined the woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s body, according to whom Raluca was underfed as she weighed less than 40 kilos. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She was not eating or she couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t assimilate food\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the doctor said, while others said she also had problems with her heart and hormones.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font class=\"arial12negru\">Raluca, 31, had been working for Ernst&amp;Young Romania for two years and a half. She previously worked for Vodafone. E&amp;Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only manager that could be contacted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cotidianul.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cotidianul<\/a> yesterday refused to comment the tragedy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font class=\"arial10negru\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotnews.ro\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"arial10negrusub\">HotNews.ro<\/a>,  Apr 26, 2007<\/font><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Ffulgerica.com%2Fen%2F2007%2F04%2F26%2Fromanian-media-debates-death-of-ey-exhausted-young-manager%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Romanian media on Thursday debates the death of Raluca Stroescu, a young manager for Ernst&amp;Young Romania, whose passing was blamed by a newspaper earlier this week on exhaustion at work. Raluca was buried at a cemetery in Ploiesti, north of Bucharest in the presence of the family and hundreds of young people yesterday. 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