Comments on: 5 Stages of Grieving Over a Job Loss

By: What to Expect (When You’re Not Expecting to Get Fired) | Value-Added Measures

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:43:08 +0000

[...] Scott has an absolutely brilliant analysis of job loss in the context of Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief, and I highly recommend [...]

By: Danny Fitzpatrick

Danny Fitzpatrick — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:50:51 +0000

Thank you so much for acknowledging the grief process with regards to the current economic stress – your validation is certain to help others. As a whole health coach, I am seeing this more and more frequently. As you know, it’s vital that grievers not only recognize their pain but also work through the process toward recovery

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Danny Fitzpatrick, Whole Health Coach
Co-Author of “Emotional Stimulus Package: Your Guide to Re-creating the American Dream”

By: Light at the End of the Tunnel « Moving On

Light at the End of the Tunnel « Moving On — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:49:22 +0000

[...] to find a job. Many of us simply stared at the slide showing the different stages of grieving the loss of a job (denial, anger, depression, bargaining, and acceptance), while others focused on the inability of [...]

By: maruca

maruca — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:13:39 +0000

My thought is we have to focus on the positive, change is always good (even though at times we don’t think so). We need to focus on the positive aspect of the change; spending more time with family; doing those things we NEVER had time for before; (organizing our closets, volunteering etc…) we will all be like the bionic women (or man) better than we were before.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:45:12 +0000

I think the healthiest balance is to expect change, including layoffs, as “part of office life.” Because it is. People need to be prepared, but once you’ve done their part (resume updated, networking, etc.), you can’t obsess.

The people I see having the most trouble are the ones who really DID think it could not happen to them, or had their identity so wrapped up in their job that they feel unmoored by the separation. I know a couple of those, and it’s a bad thing.

By: Amy Boland

Amy Boland — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:47:36 +0000

At my small-company workplace, there have been 1 or 2 rounds of layoffs due to reorganization every quarter since Dec 2007. At my previous tiny-company workplace, people got fired left and right–mostly because personalities did not mesh well with upper management’s. Can I see my own pink slip coming? Sure, maybe, whatever. It’s not that I don’t care–it’s just not possible to maintain any level of vigilance or anxiety over such a duration. Over the past nine years of my career, layoffs have just become a fact of office life, like coffee and staplers.

So if I get the axe, will I be shocked? Actually, yes. But I think it’s not a matter of seeing it coming so much as of being ready to respond quickly if/when it does come. The upshot is that I have learned to live with the instability that is present in workplaces even in the best of times.

By: Eliz

Eliz — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:16:00 +0000

I'm stuck in stage 4, even though I left my job and wasn't laid off. And I found the loss if identity extremely difficult. It took me a long time to get over that. Eliz’s last blog post..Things I Considered Giving Up (or Doing) for Lent

By: abdpbt

abdpbt — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:22:20 +0000

This is going to sound lime popsicle-ish, but have you ever seen the Simpsons where Homer goes through all the stages of grief in like 15 seconds? Funny. abdpbt’s last blog post..18 Baby Gift Ideas For Your Neighbor Who Just Had Octuplets