There has to be a better way to say that.........

So today I get to work at 7:30 as usual. Around 7:45 our principal comes on the announcements asking if the social worker or the s=psychologist could immediately come to the office. Keep in mind our work day starts at 8:35, so these people were not in the building. Our principal came on the announcements almost every 10 minutes looking for these people. Meanwhile everyone in the building is wondering what is going on. Why is the principal looking so frantically for these individuals. Since it involved the psychologist and social worker, it probably is pretty serious, maybe very serious.

Right when the school day ends our principal comes on the announcements and makes the following comment:

"Good morning staff. If anyone needs to speak to a social worker or psychologist today, please give me a call and we can arrange that. If anyone is having a hard time emotionally making it through the day, call me and I can arrange for someone to watch your room for a moment."

What in the h**l is going on. At this point I have no idea. About an hour of the day has started, she makes the same announcement. Now most of us our concerned.

At no point does anyone with any authority make any announcement or tell us what is going on. Through the grape vine we hear that one of the 3rd shift maintenance employees was killed in a car accident the night before while going home. Now, this is tragic, but they way they handled it was a little over the top. Most of the staff probably didn't even know him since he worked 3rd shift. Wouldn't it have made more sense to send out a company memo or e-mail alerting us instead of making us aware of the psychologist support available.

For some reason it reminded me of Arrested Development and the doctor who was always using the wrong figment of speech when talking to the family. (Again, I understand what happened was tragic.)