Anyone ever lost a client unexpectedly? One of our client managers was unexpectedly killed yesterday afternoon in an accident. She was an incredible person and has two young children. I’m in shock and heartbroken. I cried when I got the news last night (the CTO sent an announcement with pictures).

How did you handle the grief at work? Did your company do anything to honor them?

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OP sorry to hear about it. May she rest in peace.

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Sorry OP, that’s really rough. I haven’t been through this myself but it’s likely someone from leadership will reach out to you.

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I lost a client unexpectedly to a car accident during a Y2K program 1999. It was a complete shock as I had never experienced that sort of loss in the professional realm. We did a memorial to her. It was a sad loss.

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Happened to one of our project sponsors (she was on her way to a presentation from our firm and never showed up). Our firm’s president said a couple words and just moved on to selling more projects...

On a happier note, our manager scheduled time to talk about it and we reminisced as a group about her. It helped a lot talking with peers

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