Questions tagged [death]
Questions referring to the passing away of a colleague, client, or their family members or friends.
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How do teams deal with a death of a colleague
How to teams in large organizations deal with the death of a colleague? Are they supposed to go about their week like normal or is there a period of time given to grieve?
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What can I do to find new work while my workplace is closed due to an accidental death?
My friend at work was killed by one of the machines and it was awful.
The place has been closed so there's no work. We don't know when the factory is going to reopen or if they're closing down ...
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Does bereavement leave cover all family deaths? [closed]
Last Saturday, my grandmother passed away. It really makes me sad and I will not doing my best work when I return to work. I had to help with all the funeral arrangements, and it tires me. Also, I'm ...
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Tell a new employee about their boss's personal life challenges?
So I was watching the TV show "After Life", and the premise of the show is that Tony's wife has just passed away. For this reason, Tony is not acting as his usual self.
Coincidentally, his employer ...
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Did not want coworkers to know about death of parent [closed]
I recently lost my Mom unexpectedly.
I asked my manager, who is also HR, not to tell anyone. She told me that she would only tell the owners but no one else. I got back to work after taking some ...
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Manager thinks I am lying about a family emergency due to a misunderstanding
One evening at work, I got to know my grandmother was not doing well. I told this to my immediate manager. He misunderstood this to mean she passed away, which I did not know then. Four days later, ...
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Colleague commited suicide - is there anything I could have done to help?
One of my colleagues committed suicide.
We are an IT consultant company. When we have a contract, we will be deployed at a customer's site; one of our customers always put every consultant under ...
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Fired right before boss committed suicide. Should I mention in interviews?
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After 3 years in my first job as software engineer I was called into office by HR. I have been told to either sign a contract which stated that I left the company freely or that I will ...
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Dealing with the unexpected death of an employee
This morning, a bunch of news flashed around in our regional TV about the death of a young male, just out of his teens, killed in front of his house while going home from college last night.
That kid ...
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Is it common for employee to ask for condolence letter from the company?
My grandpa passed away yesterday, and my parents thought that it would be a good idea to get a condolence letter from my company, something like here. My parents were born and raised in Asian country, ...
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In an interview, how do I tactfully say that a former supervisor died?
One of my supervisors (also a close friend outside of work) from a job I had 5 years ago recently died. If an employer asks why they can't contact the employer, how do I tell them this without it ...
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How can I let my manager / colleagues know that my performance might suffer temporarily while grieving or dealing with a personal loss? [closed]
Very closely related to:
How to behave with a colleague who suffered the loss of a close family member? and
What is an appropriate response to the death of a coworker's loved one?
These ...
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How to behave with a colleague who suffered the loss of a close family member?
A colleague had recently lost a close relative and was out of office for about a week. He just returned to work.
We do not interact frequently as our duties are not directly related. However, we sit ...
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Fellow employee died before they started. Any professional way to express condolences?
On Monday we had a subcontractor scheduled to start work on our program. After she did not show up, my manager attempted to call but could not get a hold of her. A few hours later my manager ...
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Is it professional to wear black ribbon at work?
I had a close relative has died few days ago. My family has a tradition of wearing black ribbon as a symbol of remembrance.
I work at a large (1000+ employees) company in western/northern Europe and ...
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