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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A colleague of mine had a child die tragically about 2 years ago. She was off work for about 6 months and then returned. It was clear when she returned that her head was not at work and so we picked up 95% of her workload. She came in late, left early and barely went through the motions. We covered for her and did her work for her and tried to ease life at work as much as we could. We knew she needed the job and income. However now we are two years in and she is still is probably at about 20%. The other 3-4 of us are still doing almost all of her job and giving her the work to submit or work from. Additionally around various sensitive dates (birthday, deathday etc) she just doesn't function for weeks at all. She doesn't sleep and that is a big part of why she can't function. She also has other kids at home (and has a supportive husband) and she wants to put the energy that she does have into her family and her kids who obviously also dealt with a major trauma.

On one hand, I can't imagine what she has gone though and maybe we should just keep picking up the work long term but on the other hand, people are starting to grumble and get frustrated that she hasn't resumed more of her responsibilities. Some feel kind of taken advantage of and some on the team have started to refuse to do her work leaving others to do even more. (I am one of the ones still doing most of her work)

I really don't know how to move forward. [b]Management know she is struggling and not at 100% but they don't realize how much of her work we are doing for her. [/b]They offered her more time off but she needs the money.

She is an absolutely lovely person. Hence why we have stepped in for her but I am not sure if we just continue indefinitely doing her work due to her trauma and tragedy?

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The bolded is the fault of you & your team. If you do not communicate the situation to management, how do you expect them to rectify it ?[/quote]

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