A co-worker falls ill and ends up at the hospital. What does your office do? Send flowers? Cards? Visit them? Steal their office supplies? Okay, that last one was a little out there but trust me it has happened and to be honest I’m not proud of it. Truth be told I had NO clue they were laid up with messed up back.
This happens almost weekly in my building. I don’t get it. It sometimes feel like I work for the:
a) 1-800 Flowers
b) HallMark Cards
c) Counselor
It never ceases to amaze me though the people who will roll their eyes when they hear a fellow co-worker’s loved one has past away. When they do the heavy ‘sigh’ I usually walk away, pissed.
There is just no empathy in the work place anymore. I can’t deal with it. It’s not JUST my co-workers either my boss does the same thing.
“Suzan’s OTHER grandmother passed away, well okay – send a card or whatever.”
So sorry to bother you boss I didn’t know a world existed outside of your own.
I apologize to you reading this because in all respect this has happened at just about every job I’ve held. At first everyone is truly emapathetic and then something happens. They forget how to be human. They forget how to care.
Again, sorry to bring you down today but this question has been on my mind for awhile and I’d like to know if this has happened at your job?