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Are any other HR people feeling a bit lonely in all this :(

Samantha

Hi

Sorry its a self indulgent one.

Just wondering if anyone else is feeling a bit lonely?  I have streams of people coming in to my office concerned about it and asking what our plans are for WFH and sickness and about 101 other queries and being openly worried and I have to sit here and be the cabin crew and exude calmness.  Yet I am just as concerned as everyone else.

Managers and Directors etc look to us for calm, measured guidance and practical advice, and being so close to the 'inner circle' and hearing first hand the impact on the business etc.....very worrying, I'm feeling a bit forgotten about and just wondered if anyone else is feeling the same?  It just feels like sometimes people forget that we count as employees too?  

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  • in reply to Joanne O'Hagan
    It may help some in these unprecedentedly turbulent and distressing times to contemplate something completely different in the form of imaginary excursion into W.B. Yeats’ ‘Celtic Twilight’:


    I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
    And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
    Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
    And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

    And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
    Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
    There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
    And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

    I will arise and go now, for always night and day
    I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
    While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
    I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

    - might be completely off-topic, but it works for me!
  • in reply to David

    Hi David

    This isn't poetry, it's a prayer by Bokar Rinpoche given to me by a Buddhist colleague and I thought you might like to see it. I've had it on my office wall for 20 years. There's something about the way it is written that appealed to me. Here it is:

    Morning Aspiration Thoughts

    Today, I will avoid causing harm through my physical activity,
    I will avoid causing harm through my speech,
    I will avoid causing harm through my thoughts.

    Today, I will do my best to engage in beneficial physical activity,
    I will do my best to speak useful pleasant words,
    I will do my best to nourish well-wishing thoughts for all beings.

  • in reply to David
    Thank you so much David for this, I have enjoyed a five minute break from the chaos thinking of the water lapping at the shore - now ready to face the coalface once again!
  • in reply to Joanne O'Hagan
    Joanne I can really empathize as I described my menopause like being hit by a tsunami or some kind of crazy reverse puberty!! I found mindfulness techniques and the Headspace App (lots of others available) really helpful and am certainly using them at the moment. Dr Ranjan Chatterjee put a great podcast out last week which I've listened to more than once on my journey home from work. I'd recommend a listen. I have also set up an email template (to help direct staff to resources they can use) with various reputable links for mental well-being sites like Mind so am happy to forward this to you if it helps. Lots of virtual hugs
  • in reply to David
    What I would do to 'live alone in the bee-loud glade'!
  • in reply to Lisa Jennings
    Indeed, Lisa!
    'All changed, changed utterly.....' comes to mind, too (but for how long and ultimately for the better or for the worse?)