I missed a week of work Mourning P, the week after his ascenion. I made it through the 1st week but then it really hit me hard! Know it was serious because I also loss a week of pay!!! But I think I'm going to make up those loss wages with: God Is Alive, The Cross, Anna Stesia, Purple Rain, Dreamer, and some others?

What about you all? Anybody else loose a day to 5 days of work for being sad about P being physically gone?!?

I was actually off on short-term disability when it happened, for which I am thankful. I was able to mourn in-the-moment, and not have to 'put on a happy face'.

Nope. I had a vacation day on April 22 - but that was planned weeks before. (It was my last chance to get out of town before the play I was in opened on April 29.)

Vacation time is for happy things - not crying into my pillow.

1 day, the day of. I needed more time but just couldn't take more time, was super hard to focus (I think it took another week or so to truly focus)

Took a half day, the day of, I literally got physically ill. Talk about putting on "a happy face" I was trying days after, scared my grandbaby after a while it was so plastic, I had to stop and just be me however I felt.

Astasheiks said:

I missed a week of work Mourning P, the week after his ascenion. I made it through the 1st week but then it really hit me hard! Know it was serious because I also loss a week of pay!!! But I think I'm going to make up those loss wages with: God Is Alive, The Cross, Anna Stesia, Purple Rain, Dreamer, and some others?

What about you all? Anybody else loose a day to 5 days of work for being sad about P being physically gone?!?

Didn't miss work but I cried at work a lot. Thank God I work midnights and was only around one other person. Most of the time I would just suck up and try and think about something else to try and dry up the tears. The times when it became unbearable I would just run to the bathroom and my co-worker was none the wiser

I missed a ENTIRE MONTH & a HALF of my schooling when he ''transformed''. (i don't like to say passed.) I still came out strong but I know I could have done better. :/

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morningsong said:

Took a half day, the day of, I literally got physically ill. Talk about putting on "a happy face" I was trying days after, scared my grandbaby after a while it was so plastic, I had to stop and just be me however I felt.

i forgot to eat the day he died, and next morning had an ulcer attack that was quite ugly. stayed home the 22nd puking and made work up on sat, the next day instead. i was soooo sick but, the worst thing was i knew the autopsy started at 9 am that day. i just knew it.. i was vomiting and puking and sweating and thinking about each cut. it was truly strange. must have watched too many episodes of that forensics show 'bones' or something

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Thanks all for sharing, I didn't think I was alone.

no....we aren't allowed to miss work for illness even at this point.

XxAxX said:

morningsong said:

Took a half day, the day of, I literally got physically ill. Talk about putting on "a happy face" I was trying days after, scared my grandbaby after a while it was so plastic, I had to stop and just be me however I felt.

i forgot to eat the day he died, and next morning had an ulcer attack that was quite ugly. stayed home the 22nd puking and made work up on sat, the next day instead. i was soooo sick but, the worst thing was i knew the autopsy started at 9 am that day. i just knew it.. i was vomiting and puking and sweating and thinking about each cut. it was truly strange. must have watched too many episodes of that forensics show 'bones' or something

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DAMN I didn't forget to eat, but I could only manage one meal at about 8 that night. spent the whole day in bed delirious, crying, trying to sleep, waking & realizing it wasn't just some fucked up dream

Fortunately i was on holiday that week. Was due to work that weekend too. I know i could not have worked. The following Monday was weird. All silly trivial customer complaints got talked down or ignored. Meh.

cindyt said:

no....we aren't allowed to miss work for illness even at this point.

that's hardcore... & probably illegal

I didn't miss work attendance, but I sure had a lot of trouble concentrating on my job.

CalhounSq said:

cindyt said:

no....we aren't allowed to miss work for illness even at this point.

that's hardcore... & probably illegal

probably but it happens. many migrants and immigrants work by a whole different set of wages and rules too.

CalhounSq said:

XxAxX said:

i forgot to eat the day he died, and next morning had an ulcer attack that was quite ugly. stayed home the 22nd puking and made work up on sat, the next day instead. i was soooo sick but, the worst thing was i knew the autopsy started at 9 am that day. i just knew it.. i was vomiting and puking and sweating and thinking about each cut. it was truly strange. must have watched too many episodes of that forensics show 'bones' or something

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DAMN I didn't forget to eat, but I could only manage one meal at about 8 that night. spent the whole day in bed delirious, crying, trying to sleep, waking & realizing it wasn't just some fucked up dream

Revolution said:

Didnt miss work, but i would breakdown once a day for about two weeks. Different things triggered it, usually other musicians tributes. So unexpected and heartfelt. Then those beautiful stories of his generosity. And still other sad songs will still hit me every so often. Music has always triggered my emotions, probably why i gravitated towards Prince. He put his heart n soul into each song. I miss him. I will always miss him... [Edited 6/29/16 16:10pm]

the stories of his generosity touched me and made me proud of him too. Here's a guy who as a young man, often paid as little as possible to his people, seemingly just out of meanness. He often didn't pay people, often did things that sounded cruel and heartless. For that same guy to do the things he finally did made me so proud of him as a man, the fact that he didn't want anyone knowing about any of it made it all the more sincere. I was proud of my hero.

I don't work but I am a student, and it happened during that crucial time of the academic year and sadly I just couldn't focus. I spent far too much time on org, could barely eat anything and cried my eyes out every day for at least 2-3 weeks. I know I had done really well all year until then... I won't know my finals results until mid-July but I'm fearing the worst.

Yes. Called in sick on the Friday

sonshine said:

I was working at my parents the day of so they understood when I had to leave immediately. Managed somehow to get thru my regular job the following days but there were times I had to go to the bathroom to hide my tears. It's been more of a problem at home, not keeping up with my responsibilities. So I need to get back on track for my family's sake.

I couldnt not go to work either because my family already thought I was nuts and to be honest, I found out the morning I had to go to work and it had not sunk in, but when at work for the whole week I was not able to function properly on my job.

Like Sonshine said above - my personal responsibilities were where it really showed, I forgot to buy food, pay the morgage and some bills - because I lost all track of time, thankfully it was no drama those things did get paid, but I just forgot the dates they were due and I am normally very punctual with everything........I am still in a little bit of a haze. It has only got slightly better.......

I have 2 jobs. My full time job is at an Elementary School and while driving home is when i found out what happened..still remember it like it was yesterday i just couldn't believe it..it put me in such a way that my 2nd job, a part time, work from home computer job never got done.

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I went home, made a cup of tea and stayed on the computer and watched CNN all night watching the coverage and looking things up about Prince, didn't do ANY of my work (on the computer) that i was supposed to do for my part time job..this went on for days..i was just in such shock..it took me a good week to shake the ''zombie'' feeling.

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The next day i had a doctors appt so i took a personal day that was planned weeks in advance. I just needed to veg, i think i stayed on my couch the entire weekend and never did a bit of work.

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I've actually never done that before in the 2 years i've had the job

i took off the friday after, ate nothing all day and its the first passing that moved me to scream, a lot, periodically for 2 days. then just cried quietly at work for a few weeks and getting better now.

I'm on the west coast...when the news hit, I think it was 9 or 10am. My manager is the one who broke the news to me. I sat at my desk (stunned) for about 15 minutes, checking TMZ.com and all of the other news sites. I finally went to my manager and told her, "This is worse than a death in the family...I'm going home." She looked at me like I was crazy, but once she knew that I was serious, she said, "Didnt you say that your daughter called and you have to pick her up from school?" I laughed and said, "Yup!" She said, "Go home and take care of her. Will you be in tomorrow?" I said, "I doubt it." and she said, "Okay...call me if you need to." My wife went crazy, thinking I was going to get fired, but I stayed home Thurs and Fri, observed everything going on. When I got back to work on Monday, I found out that our department had passed a card around, wishing me well during my tough time. I'm sure some of those pricks were laughing at me and what have you, but most were very sincere (they knew about my Prince addiction), drawing the symbol and all that...it was quite touching. I didnt shed a tear until I talked to my mother (I think it was Saturday), and she was crying simply because she knew how much the man meant to me. A surreal weekend that I dont think I'll ever forget.