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First off, no, I didn't personally know her, she was on morning shift and never made it out of her OJT. That didn't stop me tearing up all day, yesterday, whenever I thought about the situation, none of which is mentioned in the Obituary. (But for those of you who know FIL, he's a family-friend, just so you're aware.)
Obituary
Let's see.
1) Ignore the problem. After all, if you ignore it, maybe nobody will notice?
2) When someone goes to post the obituary on the board at work, yell at them that nothing can be posted without upper management approval.
3) Continue to not say anything all day.
4) Leave obscure fliers on the breakroom table. (They're for a helpline - you can call and talk about problems - but nobody would know what they're for just looking at them, and nobody was likely to notice them.)
Yeah, sounds like a plan.
If they'd at least given us a briefing the day before the obituary came out, waved the fliers in the air so we could see them and know what they were for, and offer that people could take a break and use the phones in the supervisor cubicals if need be, maybe things would have gone slightly more smoothly.
As it was we had the news from ElvenGirl, when she saw the obituary. She was not unmoved - far from it, she liked Melanie as a person - but it is ElvenGirl's way to deal with thing in a manner that some people unfortunately interpreted as callous. She had seen Melanie escorted back from the Checkpoint to the offices on Friday (the day of her death), and made the hypothesis, which she proclaimed loudly (because that's the way she talks) that the woman had been 'let go because she was untrainable.' Overheard out of context (possibly repeated by someone else), that caused a report to be written, and we're probably going to get yelled at, today. If so, I don't know if I'll be able to hold my tongue.
Obituary
Let's see.
1) Ignore the problem. After all, if you ignore it, maybe nobody will notice?
2) When someone goes to post the obituary on the board at work, yell at them that nothing can be posted without upper management approval.
3) Continue to not say anything all day.
4) Leave obscure fliers on the breakroom table. (They're for a helpline - you can call and talk about problems - but nobody would know what they're for just looking at them, and nobody was likely to notice them.)
Yeah, sounds like a plan.
If they'd at least given us a briefing the day before the obituary came out, waved the fliers in the air so we could see them and know what they were for, and offer that people could take a break and use the phones in the supervisor cubicals if need be, maybe things would have gone slightly more smoothly.
As it was we had the news from ElvenGirl, when she saw the obituary. She was not unmoved - far from it, she liked Melanie as a person - but it is ElvenGirl's way to deal with thing in a manner that some people unfortunately interpreted as callous. She had seen Melanie escorted back from the Checkpoint to the offices on Friday (the day of her death), and made the hypothesis, which she proclaimed loudly (because that's the way she talks) that the woman had been 'let go because she was untrainable.' Overheard out of context (possibly repeated by someone else), that caused a report to be written, and we're probably going to get yelled at, today. If so, I don't know if I'll be able to hold my tongue.
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I'm not the only person who finds this appalling. Most of my co-workers are in shock.