Saturday, November 12, 2011
Have you ever had a similar emotional battle.....?
This afternoon (Sunday) my boss's boss calls me, asks if I have a minute, and then says she is afraid she has some bad news. Since she rarely ever calls employees at home, especially on a Sunday, naturally, my first thought is I am about to be told not to bother reporting in tomorrow, because I have been let go. She pauses for a minute, and in my mind, I am preparing myself for the bad news, wondering what it was I did wrong to have this happen and not able to think of a thing, and debating in my mind if I wait for my wife to get home (she and her mother were on a getaway weekend) to not upset her, or do I call her and tell her right away so as not to have this been a disturbing surprise when she walks in the door. When the boss finally speaks again, I find out the bad news is that one of my co-workers young sons met with his untimely tragic death yesterday, and she wants all of the staff to meet to go over how the schedules are going to change while my co-worker takes an indefinite leave of absence to deal with unexpected serious crisis. I hate to admit this, but for the first 3-5 seconds, my initial reaction was one of relief that I still had my job, and then I quickly turned to deeply grieving and hurting for my colleague and the horrible loss of her son. Have any of you ever had a similar relief/grief experience in a moment after you have received similar news?
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