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So last week on Friday my grandmother passed away suddenly after a couple days in the hospital. I am from an immigrant family so she lives in a different country. I was somewhat close with her, but didn’t see or talk to her very often due to travel and language barriers. I received this news over text in the middle of leading an important research interview for my team. I was able to get through the interview fine, and immediately had a debrief with my team (where everyone is of higher management status than me, I’m the one analyst on the team).

Honestly looking back I should have said something to get out of the debrief. I didn’t really realize until now that I was somewhat in shock/not processing anything that was going on in the interview or debrief. Idk how I managed to look like I was engaged in the conversation.

The thing is, this interview was really important. And my director and manager were discussing some important next steps/methodological ideas about our project in the debrief. So this whole week I’ve felt kind of out of it/a bit confused on next steps of my work because I honestly couldn’t tell you what was said in the second half of the interview I led or this debrief meeting.

Is it bad to tell my supervisor about what happened a week late? I am just kind of lost in my work and without a good explanation of why, he might question me. I’m worried it will look irresponsible to have not informed my team about personal circumstances that could affect my performance. But at the same time I feel weird bringing up such a personal and morbid thing during a meeting.