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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can always grieve on your days off.
You need to show up for work regardless.

One poster said her Mom died on a Saturday and she showed up for work the following Monday.
If she can do that then no one should be taking any time off for a silly cat.[/quote]

Sounds like she wasn’t close to her mother. I personally would need several days to a week in order to recover from the loss of my mother. And even then I would still be a crying mess. People without empathy have a hard time understanding. Just bc you don’t like cats doesn’t mean someone wouldn’t be a mess at the loss of their companion. You can raise and care for a cat the way people do for their children.

Maybe if you replace “mother” with “your child” you would understand. If your child died on Saturday would you be back to work on Monday? [/quote]

People grieve in different ways.  Some need to work, to be able to get through it.[/quote]

And some need to take off, to be able to get through it. Praising someone who goes into work on Monday when their mother died on Saturday and claiming “no one should be taking any time off for a silly cat” is an unnecessarily rude, mean and tone deaf comment. [/quote]

I disagree completely.  Having lost my mother, I can promise you it takes far more than a few days to get past the initial sadness.  A couple of days won’t matter.  And the loss is forever.  I went to work after my mom died - there was no reason not to and every reason to stay busy.

Taking off time for a cat and expecting bereavement days (not vacation or PTO) is utterly absurd.

- a nanny[/quote]

So you lack empathy. Which as a nanny is really questionable. Your experience is not everyone else’s and it’s absurd you think they are. [/quote]

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