Saturday, January 23, 2010

Sympathy Thank You Phrases How Do You Express Sympathy To A Coworker After A Death?

How do you express sympathy to a coworker after a death? - sympathy thank you phrases

Hello!

I need help, I'm not good to express my feelings verbally. My friend's mother died this week. We are working instead of in the same department stores and talk, but not really personal conversations. I feel like an idiot and am trying my colleagues because I do not know what to say or how to deal with this situation because it has never happened before, to avoid ... Yes, I know it is really stupid. How can I express my solidarity with my colleagues? What do I have to say that at least I can recognize them? Has anyone every sentence be? I feel like an idiot! Thank you for your answers.

8 comments:

Lprod said...

When my father died, I think many of my colleagues seemed to me as it is doing now, because many of them are not even mentioned, and I felt bad about this .... I felt as if they were what ensured was going on, even if they were not close friends. But I think a little sympathy is always expected and welcome.

From my personal experience I can tell you that have e-mails of sympathy, the best for me. I'm not good at expressing my feelings verbally, in which a particular situation becomes even more sensitive and feel stupid because I can understand that my colleagues seemed to think the same thing. I do not speak, so it was ideal to receive e-mail, I could answer, * * without talking about what I felt. This can for their work, or maybe a handwritten note that your office with candy or chocolate or something is left ... just something thoughtful. I know everyone is different and a poster mentioned a man who preferred not to know anything, but I appreciate it when someColleagues were kind enough to send some support lines. That's just me.

June B said...

You'll see it's really something to celebrate his death, my mother. Want to say something nice, and always know how. One or two sentences is all that is necessary.
"I'm sorry, your mother is" what we say, as a rule.

Marlo W said...

Write a message or a phone call. Feel free to say or do something, you write off a note, a phone call or a visit. I really do not care what you say is

Laurence B said...

Until something happens, I recommend seriously than normal. Just do not make fun of death or any direction, no matter how trivial jokes!

©2009 said...

A hug and a "sorry for your loss, I like to imagine what happens" would be more appropriate. If you want to talk about it, then they will.

keiko said...

I heard about your mother and I am sorry for your loss. She can only smile and say something back or not, or not responding. In any case, it is the next step. If she says she misses, we can say that I think it's really sad. I was really nervous about returning to work after death of my mother, I did not want people coming to me. In fact, it was good if they did. Do not say you understand what you feel, or give advice or tell stories about their losses. Only the knowledge that you know that you had a loss is all that is necessary.

keiko said...

I heard about your mother and I am sorry for your loss. She can only smile and say something back or not, or not responding. In any case, it is the next step. If she says she misses, we can say that I think it's really sad. I was really nervous about returning to work after death of my mother, I did not want people coming to me. In fact, it was good if they did. Do not say you understand what you feel, or give advice or tell stories about their losses. Only the knowledge that you know that you had a loss is all that is necessary.

Chris S said...

Sometimes, after a difficult period in one's life the best we can do is not mentioned. (Death of the father of my brother, his father was 49) that are not even mentioned, and hung on as if nothing really happened. A few months later, thanked me very much because he said, were all worried, and I was the only relief, not talk. This is may be good to talk, but not in the section "How is your day? Way, more like" Oh, you saw what just placed? Can you believe they thought they could get out this way? "Bring the conversation to something else, maybe like" Man, I love the way that the work here is like a stick in the you know what. "

This may or may not work for you, it's just my suggestion. But sometimes people like to listen to something normal, instead of reliving a tragedy when someone asks.

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