Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi all
i am looking for some advice. I have just got back from a weeks leave and I have noticed a very interesting thing anxiety. I have been working from home since the March lockdown last year and this was the first holiday time away for a full week when my co workers have been working (non including Christmas when all my co workers are off). getting back into the office Well the spare bedroom It has hit me like a tone of bricks how anxious I am. without the office environment I don’t know
- if someone is angry at me or they just are
- don’t know when the skype is going ring
- whether I’m taking too long on a break
-weather I’m doing enough work
- when I will be expected to work over my hours for a meeting
all this is making me anxious as I cant see people like I used to in the office and I am so anxious of doing wrong
I have tried to ask my manager for the regular finish time but he’s under the idea that it is a work requirement on request to stay for meetings, I work 7-3 one of these meetings can be 4-5!!!.
this manger is also aware of my autism but that’s about it
this is worse as I am wanting to leave, I have been a trainee for 2 years nearly but there is no promotion preospects. What with Covid I don’t want to jump until it’s calmed down and I’ve had the vaccine towards the winter. I just don’t know how to cope in the mean time
what would be suggestions to help this anxiety
Should say hook lol not hock. Silly autospell
Thanks hock a duck (lobe that name) your convo today it has made me feel better I’m not the only one in the same boat. Think we should ban online meetings
I changed job in January and not being able to people watch to figure out how I should act has caused me issues too. Fortunately I don't have spontaneous team meetings otherwise I think that would bug me too. They're rarely worth the time we spend on them...
That’s the thing it’s often happens randomly and spontaneously and often they are a waste of time but I can’t very well say that thrueth I think it’s part of the wider adjustment to working from home. I am starting to miss the office because you can people watch in the office and gauge what’s happening. At home you feel like your disturbing or bugging every time you Skype an IM
I'm the same. Is the meeting on a set day? I can tolerate my boundaries being adjusted if I can feel in control of it, particularly if there is a benefit to me.
Yes I’m the same as you I can get flexi, it’s just my routine that disrupted if I stay over that I don’t like. Think because I don’t like work I am very precious about my time after work and don’t like work ‘escaping out of its boundaries’ so to speak
Yes I do.
also have u claimed the tax reduction from HMRC ( u change your code code ) which saves u some money per week ( like 3 quid a week ! )
I struggle with the same things. Does your company have a HR department?
Do you get paid for working the extra hours for the meeting? In my work for local authority there are sometimes meetings that I attend outside my usual work pattern but I can claim that time back as flexitime.