Clouds Joo

So if something has happened in my personal life or my manager's personal life or in anyone's personal life, a good manager should be more than happy to push back some deadlines.

That's a compromise that they should be more than willing to make.

Because at the end of the day, a corporate job is just a corporate job.

We're behind a desk.

It's a desk job.

We're not saving lives.

Unless you actually are saving lives, but...

You probably aren't, right?

Unless you'd be in the ER if you were, or if you'd be a medic, but I don't know.

Anyways, it sounds like the team leader wanted to give Lina some grace.

And in that aspect, I completely agree.

I do think that's a good thing to do.

However, I don't think that should come at the expense of other colleagues.

If you want to give Lina some grace and let her grieve and let her process her emotions and let her recover, just, you know, from a personal standpoint, let her...

you know give her some space to just be a human push back her deadlines don't give it to other people because you don't want there to be a direct trade-off between lena's emotions and how other people are doing so honestly in this

story I think the team leader is a real asshole because I understand wanting to give a person some space and I think that's completely justified and honestly it's very humane and empathetic to be a team leader and see your colleagues or your direct reports as humans and wanting to give them space and giving them

you know, breathing room when things happen in their lives.

I actually think that's great, but it should not come at the expense of other colleagues or other direct reports.

If you want to give Lina some space to process her emotions, don't make it other people's problems.

If anything, make it your own problem.