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Don’t Text “How Are You?” and Other Rules for Supporting a Struggling Colleague
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If you work with others, you’ll eventually work alongside someone whose life comes apart. A colleague’s parent dies. Someone’s marriage ends. A teammate gets a devastating diagnosis. These things don’t happen outside of work; they happen in the middle of it, between meetings, inconveniently.
The person who’s suffering likely has no plan for the tricky work situation that life has just served them. They are probably trying to figure out how much to share, how much to pretend, and whether they’ll be penalized for being honest.
My hard news came three years…
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