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    Sohn des Jetwash-Tycoons Karcher „erschoss sich mit einer Luftpistole, nachdem er Schwierigkeiten hatte, Arbeit zu finden“

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    1. jamnut on

      Sad story, but classic journalism to include the cost of the school the lad went to. I’m surprised ‚James shot himself in the family’s £1m mansion‘ or similar, wasn’t mentioned

    2. Understateable on

      So sad and I think seeing how much my peers are struggling with this that there are many more to come yet 🙁

    4. Wise-Pay-8993 on

      This story is just sad. I also find it strange how his dad was the md of such a big firm and couldn’t find his son a job through his friends or at his firm. The lad also went to a very expensive private school. I dont know why the headline is trying to make it out that un-employment caused this as the article mentions how he suffered mental health issues before this.

    5. erbr on

      More than the reflection of looking for job or money struggles this is the reflection on how mental health is handled by healthcare. He had the thoughts of doing it but most likely the healthcare professionals, following the guidelines, decided that was okay to let it go and be. The amout of people that leave doors more frustrated than when they came in is mind blowing.

    6. dJunka on

      Don’t understand, they used an air pistol? Like those ones that shoot pellets with compressed air? They must have been very desperate, as they are generally not lethal.

    7. boostman on

      >He had previously held a shotgun licence. He had to give it up however after being diagnosed with autism and ADHD.

      Wait, is this a thing?

    8. Wretched_Colin on

      The poor guy wasn’t well.

      And, without that unresolved, if it wasn’t his employment which did for him it would be a relationship breakup, not getting a promotion, death of a parent.

    9. GayLiquidSpellSword on

      >The son of a manufacturing tycoon killed himself with an air pistol in front of his father after struggling to find a „**proper job**“, an inquest has heard.

      I think the „**Proper Job**“ part of this might actually be the important part. His degree was in marketing and management, I never went to Uni but I’m guessing this has gotten really fucked both by offshoring and automation. Remote work/offshoring doesn’t need a manager nearly as much so less are hired and marketing seems to trying to go automated but also advertising as a thing is getting nuked due to bot traffic making marketing online worthless.

      For a lot of us, we can kind of put the ego down and just say „fuck it any job will do“, but I’m guessing he thought „I need to do more, be more“ and focusing on purely white collar when that’s a imploding sector now. I remember seeing a lot of car salesmen having Uni degrees that deal with marketing and such, there might of been other work avenues but being the son of a I’d presume a wealthy man means there could of been expectations to keep, especially with all the expensive schooling.

    11. Outrageous_Agent_608 on

      Lad was suffering from mental health and it’s very sad. Really surprised the dad didn’t help. Seriously it’s your boy. He’s trying but it’s clearly very tough out there. Give him a helping hand ffs.

    12. crankthehandle on

      This headline is so idiotic. This guy’s dad was MD of Kärcher UK. He was neither a tycoon nor did he have any ownership of Kärcher beyond usual compensation. He was just a ‚regular‘ executive level manager of a big company.

    13. InTheEndEntropyWins on

      Title seems a seems misleading, it’s like saying someone killed them selves after „struggling to eat at all you can eat buffet“. I guess it might be technically true, but that’s not the reason they died.

      Plus it looks like it was an accident rather than someone deliberately trying to kill themselves.

      >His father Simon, who ran jet wash firm Karcher for 20 years, also posted on LinkedIn to help with the job search and told the inquest hearing that he didn’t believe James intended to kill himself as he used an air pistol, not a weapon usually associated with fatalities.
      >Mr Keeping said: „He got the air pistol out, went ‚Ha!‘ and put it to his head. There was a bang, and everything went silent. I don’t believe that he meant to take his own life.

    15. IDPTheory on

      The Dad down playing what his son did in court is horrible, ‚I don’t believe he wanted to kill himself‘? Really? When he put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger? In front of you, his Dad – The one who’s pressured him into this state of extremes?? Funny that. You’re culpable old man.

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