I think everybody has that in the back of their mind, said Sonya Conant, personnel manager with the Tribal Health Consortium. Another fear is an increase in absenteeism at work and a drop in productivity. The sadness is there. I know other managers have talked with their staff, Conant said. The response at the Alaska Native Medical Center was a healing ceremony.
Employees say it really helped to keep the terrorists attack from intruding in their everyday life.
Trauma experts say we must give tragedy its due respect. When Jay Leno and Conan came on, I stayed up and watched it. And I could not get to bed that night, said Anderson. A week later, Anderson still had trouble getting to sleep and wondered why the return of late-night comedy would trigger this delayed reaction. I ve made a career of getting in way over my head.