When people you work with quit

[frosty]

Do you feel sad and bummed? I usually do, and it's not really that I'm close to them but just that over the years I've grown used to their presence. Today in our weekly meeting two people announced they were leaving. I'm really sad about it because I really like working with them. One is going back to Scotland and the other is going back to the midwest where she has family to raise her daughter. For the latter, I think she wants to leave her full-time position as a librarian to spend more time with her 1-year-old, and for the former, I believe it's more financial circumstances. He said it's too difficult to live in California now. I'm really saddened by this news Both are great people. Now if the dept. head, whom I still have a major crush on, leaves, I don't know what I will do! Anyway, I wonder if the California economic situation is driving out people.