MEMOIR

The Day I Had to Tell Staff a Colleague Died

Have you ever had to be the messenger of the unthinkable?

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Our office walls were too thin. Everyone knew it. We’d almost never take private calls at our desks, fearful of eavesdropping office neighbours. But it was often wet and cold outside in the concrete commercial business park in suburban Melbourne, so…