Bleeding Purple
Sunday 03 May 2009 at 01:51 am We lost a lot of good people at work this week. Much of the layoffs were totally unexpected.It's awful watching your colleagues and friends get picked off one by one with a tap on the shoulder. Them putting up brave faces as they headed into meeting rooms. It's worse still to see them later with voices barely holding up and tears running down their cheeks unchecked. Boy did I feel helpless. Dumbstruck. What could I have said? It would have been pointless to ask what their plans were because no one would have had one.
Applying the Kübler-Ross model on the five stages of grief didn't help although it helpfully pointed out to me that I'm really effing angry right now with the whole exercise. I wonder what next week will feel like staring across empty desks and missing familiar voices in the office.