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I am depressed

 
 
Reply Thu 14 May, 2009 01:34 pm
This is a first for me, so I dont know how to react......
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Letty
 
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Reply Thu 14 May, 2009 01:39 pm
@the prince,
What's wrong, honey?
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mac11
 
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Reply Thu 14 May, 2009 01:46 pm
@the prince,
Prince G! What's wrong? Can we help?
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littlek
 
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Reply Thu 14 May, 2009 02:50 pm
talk it through, that always seems to help at least a little....
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dyslexia
 
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Reply Thu 14 May, 2009 02:56 pm
of course you're depressed, you're a stranger in a strange land. Buck up bucko.
CalamityJane
 
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Reply Thu 14 May, 2009 03:00 pm
@dyslexia,
Papperlapapp, I am a stranger in a strange land too and I am not depressed.

Prince is depressed because he's a *whispers* banker.
He had to sell his German car with a star, and probably is buying ordinary
liverwurst instead of patè.

Or course I could be wrong and he's approaching a round numbered birthday
which always can trigger depression and/or hyperventilation, depending how
high the round number is.
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Letty
 
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Reply Thu 14 May, 2009 03:10 pm
When I'm depressed, Prince G. I listen to this kind of music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yua3bdXQjzU

I had to explain to G.J. Patel about Sabu. He wrote down the name on a lily pad.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Thu 14 May, 2009 06:47 pm
Sometimes it is a medical condition, sometimes emotional. Can you give us a clue?
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 14 May, 2009 07:52 pm
@the prince,
Did it sneak up on you? did it happen suddenly?

(((((((( Sparky )))))))
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Lightwizard
 
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Reply Thu 14 May, 2009 08:17 pm
@the prince,
You don't know how to react because it's most often a chemical imbalance and can come up on someone pretty quickly. There doesn't even have to be an apparent reason because it's so often a physical illness. Don't have any qualms about going to the doc and getting a prescription for an anti-depressant.
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the prince
 
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Reply Fri 15 May, 2009 01:00 am
All this is just getting too much isnt it? Most of the time I tend to keep my chin up, but we just announced more job losses (I am safe) but I will have to cut my team - do you know how hard it is to tell someone that they no longer have a job??? Especially in this market? For no fault of their own ???
Francis
 
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Reply Fri 15 May, 2009 01:06 am
@the prince,
Yeah, I know, let me pat you on the back:

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/gismonda/patback.jpg
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Fri 15 May, 2009 01:55 am
@Francis,
Well, well - that's the kind of therapy he needs! Wink

Francis
 
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Reply Fri 15 May, 2009 02:19 am
@Walter Hinteler,
Walter, stop sneering!
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msolga
 
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Reply Fri 15 May, 2009 03:12 am
@the prince,
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All this is just getting too much isnt it? Most of the time I tend to keep my chin up, but we just announced more job losses (I am safe) but I will have to cut my team - do you know how hard it is to tell someone that they no longer have a job??? Especially in this market? For no fault of their own ???


Aw sorry you'll have to go through this, honey bunch. I imagine, given the incredible hours you've been working with your team, over the past few years, that you'd know all members of your team extremely well. So to tell someone (who has probably been a good worker & is perhaps a friend by now) that they are to lose there job, & will no longer be around, would be a terribly difficult thing to do.
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Joeblow
 
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Reply Fri 15 May, 2009 05:08 am
@the prince,
the prince wrote:

All this is just getting too much isnt it? Most of the time I tend to keep my chin up, but we just announced more job losses (I am safe) but I will have to cut my team - do you know how hard it is to tell someone that they no longer have a job??? Especially in this market? For no fault of their own ???


Hoping to find a way to offer the following without sounding mean...or...heartless to the ones that are losing their positions.

It must be terribly difficult to let people go. I know when my program was closed down several years back it was hard to *get* the news, but thinking of you, and not the others, I hope you'll find a way to grow from the experience. It's part of the job. You'll need to find a way to accept it without tearing your guts out. Not sure how one goes about that without compartmentalizing. You’re a good man. Steady as she goes.

sozobe
 
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Reply Fri 15 May, 2009 05:31 am
@Joeblow,
"Compartmentalizing" is a great word, here.

I hated firing people too. I recently read somewhere that "through no fault of their own" actually cushions the blow somewhat... losing one's job in a bad economy, which everyone knows about, is somewhat (and all these "somewhats" are the rub) less traumatic than losing one's job due to negligence.

But yeah, it's not going to be pleasant -- for you or the firee -- at all.

Sorry Sparky.

Makes sense that you'd find it depressing.
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the prince
 
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Reply Fri 15 May, 2009 05:52 am
I know - the thing is that I have been doing this for a year now - it tends to get a bit draining.

The news abt Diva hasnt helped
dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 15 May, 2009 06:09 am
@the prince,
Awful.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Fri 15 May, 2009 06:32 am
@the prince,
Yeah.

If I remember right, we're all right about the same age. (You me Diva.)
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