My daughter frequently reads my blog and yesterday she asked me a question about the proper protocol for dealing with personal tragedies, hardships and death in the workplace. I have to admit that I had not really thought much about how many people are encountering this situation daily. Because I work from home, I am somewhat removed. A friend of my daughter’s friend, whom she worked with, had died. He was a very young man and she said it saddened her, but she didn’t know the friend of her friend that died. She told her friend to let her know if she could do anything for him and left it at that. A sympathy card came around which she passed on signing. She said, “Signing the card didn’t feel right to her, I didn’t personally know him and somehow saying I’m sorry wasn’t enough. Everyone I’m sure is sorry. So what’s the proper etiquette?”
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