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Re: What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies

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Post by gknoy »

cema wrote: post #75
AznHisoka wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God, I hate taxis.. always beeping at you when you take 1 second to cross the street or make a turn (if you're riding in front of it)

We are all just 1 second away from a tragedy. When I was learning how to drive a car my instructor told me: see the light turned green, hold on, wait for an idiot, then wait for a taxi cab, then go slowly.

Similarly, my mother always told me to drive as if the oncoming person who appears to be stopping is NOT, and that people with turn signals on are liars or forgetful, and will continue straight, when evaluating safety of turning right.

Sometimes it feels like I drive like the stereotypical granny, but this has saved my bacon several times in the past two decades.

Re: What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies

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Post by heed »

jigneshg wrote: post #90
steven2012 wrote: post #52

One of my coworkers, my mentor and someone who taught me what it meant to be a good programmer, was murdered by his wife, who also murdered their two children and then killed herself. It took place over a holiday, and I noticed he hadn't shown up afterwards. After a couple of days, I asked my boss if he was on vacation, and he said no, so I emailed him. His body and his family were found the next day by his neighbors…

Hi Steven, Sorry to hear your horrible experience loosing good friend and after reading your reply, i feel that the person like him did not deserve such death :( Sometime it is very difficult for human to understand GOD and his punishment !

> Sometime it is very difficult for human to understand GOD and his punishment !

What a rude, and offensive thing to say.

Re: What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies

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Post by sidcool »

I have seen a lot of departments in my office understaffed. Immigration department, Talent management department, the HR department etc., who job is seen as mostly mechanical and less stressful. In reality, they juggle between a lot of things and are stressed. People keep on calling them and act as if the they are there to serve. I have raised this concern in my organization, but only to deaf ears.

Re: What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies

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Post by cdcarter »

randomacct wrote: post #85
hudibras wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To all supervisors: If one of your employees dies while you're on vacation, cancel the rest of your vacation. No exceptions.

Why?

If for no other reason, to be with the rest of your employees, the dead fellow's direct co-workers?

Re: What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies

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Post by jigneshg »

heed wrote: post #92
jigneshg wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Steven, Sorry to hear your horrible experience loosing good friend and after reading your reply, i feel that the person like him did not deserve such death :( Sometime it is very difficult for human to understand GOD and his punishment !

> Sometime it is very difficult for human to understand GOD and his punishment ! What a rude, and offensive thing to say.

I am not rude against GOD and i am not complaining. Here i was trying to express my views as i seen many-time that good people are suffering and bad people are enjoying !

Re: What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies

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Post by Udo »

jigneshg wrote: post #95
heed wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Sometime it is very difficult for human to understand GOD and his punishment ! What a rude, and offensive thing to say.

I am not rude against GOD and i am not complaining. Here i was trying to express my views as i seen many-time that good people are suffering and bad people are enjoying !

> I am not rude against GOD

No, you're rude against PEOPLE.

Re: What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies

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Post by bjt »

hudibras wrote: post #64
notastartup wrote: post #14

Colin’s boss is on vacation this week. He recorded a message by webcam. He’s lying on his side on a hotel bed. He talks about the clarity of Colin’s press releases as palm trees shudder in the wind behind him. “I wish I had gotten to know him better,” he says. “He seemed nice.” Reading this kind of made me rage...and sad. Tragic, but the inequality, and the indifference free market creates, makes me steer clear away…

To all supervisors: If one of your employees dies while you're on vacation, cancel the rest of your vacation. No exceptions.

Except, people are more than supervisors. Maybe it's the vacation that he's been planning with his wife and kids for 5 years. You can just as easily make a rule like "To all parents: Family time is not work time. Not even a death at the office trumps that. No exceptions."

Re: What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies

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Post by scrrr »

Two friends died when I was a student. A guy from the company I was working at died on the Air France flight from Brazil. They were all very young. It's entirely possible this happens to other people I know, or to me.

FWIW, I think it's good and healthy to think about death, perhaps even to think about it often. There used to be a time when people put skulls on their desks to be reminded.

Re: What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies

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Post by hudibras »

randomacct wrote: post #85
hudibras wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To all supervisors: If one of your employees dies while you're on vacation, cancel the rest of your vacation. No exceptions.

Why?

Because it's the decent thing to do, and your other employees will appreciate it.
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