I hate my job!

[Sgt PSN]

Difference though is you got out on your own free will and were just saying good bye to another enlisted douche.  My CO played an integral role in my reenlistment getting denied when I'm 3 years away from retirement. 

[Susquehanna Birder]

So I start getting settled in on this Monday morning, when one of the supervisors comes through the office, asking everybody to gather. Situations like that are usually not good, tensions were high.

She starts - in a pretty shaky, upset voice - saying that she got an e-mail early this morning, telling her that the boss' boss' sister, who was sick in the hospital, had passed away. After suggesting some sort of group charitable donation, we were dismissed to go back to our desks.

Normally, when a spouse or parent of one of our coworkers passes, we get an e-mail, a request to sign a bereavement card, or something like this (I had two parents, two parents-in-law, and a couple of siblings-in-law pass away, and there wasn't so much as an mention). But this is a guy that maybe half of our group never even worked with. And I'm not sure that any of us knew him enough to know that he even HAD a sister.

I don't deny that it sucks losing a sibling, and it's great when a close-knit office is there to offer consolation to a bereaved coworker...but this crap is too damned sycophantic.

[DH]

get well get well soon, we want you to get well

[Rome]

I got hit with a retirement begfest when I first started.  Like on my first day.   I chipped in five bucks but I didn't sign the card.

[MDS]

skip the phony mourning and go drink beer

[hbionic]

So I start getting settled in on this Monday morning, when one of the supervisors comes through the office, asking everybody to gather. Situations like that are usually not good, tensions were high.

She starts - in a pretty shaky, upset voice - saying that she got an e-mail early this morning, telling her that the boss' boss' sister, who was sick in the hospital, had passed away. After suggesting some sort of group charitable donation, we were dismissed to go back to our desks.

Normally, when a spouse or parent of one of our coworkers passes, we get an e-mail, a request to sign a bereavement card, or something like this (I had two parents, two parents-in-law, and a couple of siblings-in-law pass away, and there wasn't so much as an mention). But this is a guy that maybe half of our group never even worked with. And I'm not sure that any of us knew him enough to know that he even HAD a sister.

I don't deny that it sucks losing a sibling, and it's great when a close-knit office is there to offer consolation to a bereaved coworker...but this crap is too damned sycophantic.

You should have punched her in the mouth for making you think it was something important.

[Diomedes]

Is the office large enough that you can just decline to participate and avoid notice?

[Eagaholic]

Or go the opposite direction with an impromptu speech about what a tragic senseless loss of life and how dearly s/he will be missed. And that everyone has the rest of the day off for if they need to meet with grief counselors.

[Diomedes]

I should say thanks to you also, Sus for reminding me why I left that world.  I dug a drywell today for the purge cycle of a water treatment system we are having installed at a client's home.  The system is for the irrigation.  The water reads at 17 ppm iron, which is so high it will stain the house and any plants the water is sprayed onto.  As Sarge would say, anywho....it was tough hot work and I am hurting a bit right now, but you have helped me to recall what utter hell I left, and how good it is to bust your ass and not have to suck so much dick.

[hbionic]

If this wasn't a man's world, the alternate ending to your post would have been:

"...and how good it is to bust your ass and not have to eat so much Hoyda"

[Hawk]

One year at my old job, a woman chased her dog unto the tracks at the closest station to our company on the r5.  I heard she got decapitated/dismembered.  Needless to say, a bunch of people at work had to get grief counseling. 

[hbionic]

They knew her?

[Hawk]

They knew her?

No, I think just the fact that it was the train port for our company with shuttle service.   I guess because they witnessed a horrific death.

[hbionic]

I know...I was trying to be funny.

I guess I'll go try somewhere else. 

[Hawk]

I know...I was trying to be funny.

I guess I'll go try somewhere else. 

Oh my bad....

I was actually taking the train that week too because my car was getting inspected and in the shop.  I got my car back a couples day before. 

You see some scary shtein riding public transportation.  I saw an older guy fall down on the Metro track, on the platform opposite me, but the people on that side sprung to action and got him up without incident.  It's amazing that more stuff doesn't happen. 

I still can't believe that guy in New York a few years ago jumped on the guy who was having a seizure.  Not many people would be willing to bet their life on a couple inches to save a stranger.