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orikesIs it unreasonable for me to be bothered by this?
This past Monday, my boss asked my supervisor (that’s an auspicious term for her, but she is the senior retoucher and she was the one who interviewed me, so …) if she had ‘heard the news’. My supervisor responded, “Yeah.” Being overly curious, asked, “What news?” The response was, “Someone who used to work here died over the weekend.”
Being that I’m new and she’d been there for a while, I figured this was someone who had worked there long before I came around, and was probably someone older. As the week progressed, though, I learned that not only was the person who passed away not a ‘long ago’ employee, but she was someone I had actually worked with.
One of the girls who worked in the studio over the summer doing reception and make-up work left to go back to college for an equestrian studies program at the end of August. Last weekend she had an accident with one of the horses. She was kicked in the throat. She collapsed fifteen minutes after the incident and never revived.
I didn’t know her well, but she was someone I had contact with. She’s someone I exchanged daily pleasantries with while she was at the office. She seemed like a good kid and always had a smile for everyone. Is it wrong of me to be bothered by the way my supervisor handled telling me about this? That she wouldn’t have said ANYTHING unless I had asked? Or that she didn’t even tell me who it was, when she knew I had met the poor girl in question? I finally had to ask one of the other people there what had happened.
Maybe I’m overreacting a little bit, but the whole thing just left a bad taste in my mouth.
This past Monday, my boss asked my supervisor (that’s an auspicious term for her, but she is the senior retoucher and she was the one who interviewed me, so …) if she had ‘heard the news’. My supervisor responded, “Yeah.” Being overly curious, asked, “What news?” The response was, “Someone who used to work here died over the weekend.”
Being that I’m new and she’d been there for a while, I figured this was someone who had worked there long before I came around, and was probably someone older. As the week progressed, though, I learned that not only was the person who passed away not a ‘long ago’ employee, but she was someone I had actually worked with.
One of the girls who worked in the studio over the summer doing reception and make-up work left to go back to college for an equestrian studies program at the end of August. Last weekend she had an accident with one of the horses. She was kicked in the throat. She collapsed fifteen minutes after the incident and never revived.
I didn’t know her well, but she was someone I had contact with. She’s someone I exchanged daily pleasantries with while she was at the office. She seemed like a good kid and always had a smile for everyone. Is it wrong of me to be bothered by the way my supervisor handled telling me about this? That she wouldn’t have said ANYTHING unless I had asked? Or that she didn’t even tell me who it was, when she knew I had met the poor girl in question? I finally had to ask one of the other people there what had happened.
Maybe I’m overreacting a little bit, but the whole thing just left a bad taste in my mouth.