"Stage" coach Ride

Those of you familiar with the stages of grief will recognize the following:

1. Shock
2. Denial
3. Anger
4. Bargaining
5. Depression
6. Testing
7. Acceptance

As you can read in the above link, or in numerous places, there is no promise that one will actually move through the stages. In fact people can frequently get stuck in a stage and not move on or can cycle back and forth between stages.

Here at the job, since the announcement of my resignation it seems that stages 3 and 4 are biggies in the office ethos.

I think that personally, I am somewhere between 5 and 6 - kind of a tennis match of mental and emotional realizations and movement. The next week has the indications of an arduous one.

Six days and counting. They really can't go fast enough - so of course, they go slower.

WH