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sticky work situation ... what's appropriate?
To make a long story short and not over-share on a public message board, there was some "restructuring" in my office and one of my co-workers lost her job. She had worked here 15 years and is just devastated by the situation.
I know is sort of weird to have a going-away party for someone who's leaving her job not of her own free will. But I know there are a lot of people in our department (but outside my particular office) who would like a chance to wish her well and say goodbye. Is there any way to plan a social gathering of some sort so she can get a chance to see everyone without it being totally depressing and sad? I'm not talking about an offical department function, just a select group of people who had a closer working relationship with her.
Or is it better just to skip it and let people contact her on their own to wish her well?
Or wait until she finds a new job and then have a "congrats on your new job" party?
While I know she would like to see her work friends, I worry that some kind of social gathering might depress her even more. Then again, getting a bunch of "thanks for all you did, I appreciate all your hard work" comments might make her feel better about the effort she put forth over the last 15 years and give her some confidence going into her new job search?
I just feel so bad. I want to help her feel better, but also don't want to make a wrong move and make the situation worse.
Mr. Sammy Dog
Re: sticky work situation ... what's appropriate?
This is what I would do!
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I vote a happy hour as well. DH works at a company of 7,000+ employees and when someone leaves/gets canned they do an outside work happy hour to give everyone the chance to say goodbye.
Mr. Sammy Dog