Hi fellow Hiveians
A much different type of writing today.. the sudden passing of a work colleague - it has impacted me deeper than I realized.
Jane, I will call her. It's not her real name, but I don't think that matters.
Jane was a hot ticket. She was the senior resource of the team - having spent decades with the same group of people. She was one of the glue aspects that held a lot of things together for the team, the business, the organization. Meticulous, organized, sharp as a tack. Kinder than you would ever think someone could be.
She was also the one that helped me get the job I've got.
This has always been a special person to me. I met her, virtually, many years ago and worked with her off and on as I needed to for the various things I was doing. I didn't develop a friendship with her until I took the leap and applied for a job on a team that I thought she was associated with. I drew the lucky card and landed directly on her team as a colleague.
We are a very close knit team, even when we were part of the other organization we split off from. It kind of was like the glory days - we were all super close, had each others backs without a second thought, helped each other daily and was the true epitome of team cohesion, without the fake shit that goes on in some places. We were all making sure each other was okay and stepping in to help in whatever way we could. Jane especially!
As with anything though, that doesn't last forever and just like life itself, Jane's was cut short. Not too short.. but she had another good decade or two left in her!
The good thing for my former colleague and friend Jane is that she didn't suffer, at least not extensively. She was sick a day last week which happens, but then she was sick a second day. Then a third.. and I had asked my colleague if he knew if she was okay, as we were both worried about her. She was oldschool, in that she took ONE sick day out of a bunch but would just trudge through after a bit of rest. When she took the second, then we didn't hear from her on any of the rest.. we were nervous that something was certainly up.
I got the news one evening that she passed away in her sleep on the night of the second day she officially called out sick from work. That's why we didn't hear from her, but one of our leaders knowing her as well as we do, was nervous for her and got in touch with her emergency contacts, to do a wellness check but that's where we found out that she had passed.
I have lost a few work colleagues over the years, but none that I was as close to as I was Jane. It is with a heavy heart that I think back on the fond memories I've got with her. The weekend Go Live parties (facetiously calling them parties) that we unknowingly had.. all of the laughs we shared. Jane was a special woman, and I am glad that she is now at peace, with her husband that preceded her passing untimely as well.
Losing people you know is tough, and losing someone that you are friends with and care deeply about is never easy. I feel very fortunate that I got to spend the last several years that I did getting to know Jane and being able to participate in this thing we call life, with her along for the ride even if it was virtual and work. She is going to be missed.
Pour one out for my friend Jane. I know I will.
Read this post I wrote about my reasons things seem weird!
-CmplXty. Real human written content, never AI. All pictures are mine unless otherwise stated
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