The Worst Thing You Can Do At Work After Another Mass Shooting Is Nothing
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING Yet another terrible mass shooting took place in America this week, an unfortunately regular traumatic occurrence in this nation. “As colleagues but also as managers…, we can’t just expect people to just work as if nothing happened, to function at their optimal capacity when there has been this massacre that occurred,” said Natalie Gutierrez, a trauma therapist in New York and New Jersey, adding, “I would assume people are not fine. “People can create protective facades where you don’t see the struggle,” Gutierrez said. Gutierrez said this might be as simple as stating, ”‘Y’all, I’m just noticing that I am struggling more today and there is a lot of sadness and heaviness.’” If you have a privileged identity, you might even say ”’I’m feeling this way and I also know that there are people who are being targeted that don’t share the privileged identities that I share that experience this every single day. One word of caution: Don’t assume that you know what someone is going through right now “even if you share the same identities,” Gutierrez said.
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