How much worse could I feel? The nice older woman who sits near me is upset because the last person who has been on leave since "the incident" has just resigned. She keeps coming by my desk to get candy from my bowl because she says, she eats a ton of candy when she's stressed and she tells me she feels guilty for that. I told her that heck, if all she does under stress is eat candy, then she's not doing so bad. My goodness, that's such a miniscule self-destructive tendency as far as these things go, and certainly nothing to feel guilty about.