Sorry about the stress, shrift. But I’m glad you’re still employed at the end of it.

My last grandparent died when I was in high school. All of them lived into their 70s and 80s, but my folks had me fairly late. My classmates were raised by boomers, while I was raised by the previous cohort. Now I just have one remaining aunt from my parents’ generation left.

Glad you are still employed, shrift! It's rough out there.

Very glad you’re still employed, shrift, but still. Do you have a team or other cohort? How are y’all doing?

I’ve been sleeping some infinite amount of time and I feel so much better I can’t even say.

I was lucky enough to know all my grandparents, but the last one died when I was in my teens. My siblings have fewer if any memories.

One of the reasons I’ve been so grateful to have reconnected with my half siblings is that it was starting to feel like we were very alone in the world, family wise. Knowing them makes me feel less unmoored, even while it also brings home how isolated we really were growing up. We had and have wonderful chosen family, but not the networks of aunts and uncles and cousins and all that so many have.

Do you have a team or other cohort? How are y’all doing?

My team is intact, but I'm only starting to find out who all is gone, so it's been chaotic. I mean, I woke up Friday morning and checked my work calendar to see a last-minute meeting with a description that had me scrolling through my email to find out if another colleague had died, or if it was layoffs like everyone had been worried about. And then I got to get out of bed and login to work to see if I still had a job. Fun times!

The general sentiment in my cohort is that we're feeling demoralized and experiencing some survivor's guilt.

Yay for sleep!

Oh boy. That sounds very unpleasant

I knew one great grandparent into elementary school. One grandfather died when I was in high school, the other when I was in college. My grandmother died before I adopted Mac, but my grandma lived to 100 and it will be 10 years since she died this year.

It’s weird to me that I don’t have guilt about not giving Mac a second patent, but I do wish he had 2 sets of grandparents. I got so much from mine.

I only really knew one of my grandparents. I don’t really have any distinct memories of the other three. Not only did they die when I was very young, they were also all up in Canada while we were in Southern California.

JZ, hooray for good sleep!

Oof, Shrift. I'm glad you're employed, but... yeah.

I've been fortunate when it comes to grandparents. I'm the oldest child of young parents, who were also each the oldest child. I knew all my grandparents and one great-grandparent and didn't lose a grandparent until I was in my 20s. I have one 96-yr-old grandmother still living. I need to figure out a time to visit her since my Christmas trip was cancelled.

So glad you're still employed, shrift! My brother is still employed as well, but yikes.

Happy to hear you are getting good sleep, JZ!

I worked through dinner tonight because it was work I could do and was something specific and confined that just required a bunch of research, and it was so pleasant compared to so much of what I do now. Don't be a supervisor, people! Sigh.