My mother died at 6 a.m. on a Tuesday, and by 9 a.m. my boss was demanding that I come to work, telling me, \u201cGrief is temporary, move on now.\u201d Three weeks later, he called the whole office together and revealed that his wife of 22 years had left him, and as he struggled to speak through his own heartbreak, I walked over and told him, \u201cTake all the time you need.\u201d I stayed with him for two hours after everyone else left, and that experience changed him as a manager. Six months later, he sincerely apologized for how he had treated me after my mother\u2019s death, and I told him that grief had taught us both something. We never discussed it again, but we didn\u2019t need to.READ MORE BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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