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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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  • I read no self-indulgence here. What I read are the admissions (for want of a better word) of a lot of people admitting to caring about not only the professional roles they play, but about those their actions and opinions affect.

    I am retired. I mentor a small group of people who I am hopefully going to help support in getting through this, and I give what advice and opinions I can on these pages, but I no longer have to face (other) employees whose jobs I am taking, or putting on warning, or whose mortgages, marriages and children's birthday presents I might be jeopardising.... But what I do still know, and remember, is that being honest, empathetic, and honestly caring toward those we sometimes have to give the "hard word" to, COUNTS.

    I have even had someone who I had just dismissed for gross misconduct shake my hand and thank me for at least listening to his side of the story.

    So now I am going to be self-indulgent and tell you all, for what it's worth, that it still gives me massive pride and fulfilment to share a profession with people like all of you. Who care about what we do, even when it's tough, and messy, and uncertain. ...And while I can't match David's contribution of thoughts for depth and poetic provenance, perhaps the motto of my first professional body, the Royal Air Force, might be borrowed by us (for a while at least): "Per Ardua, ad Astra". It means: "Through adversity, to the Stars."

    Keep it in mind.

    P

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  • I read no self-indulgence here. What I read are the admissions (for want of a better word) of a lot of people admitting to caring about not only the professional roles they play, but about those their actions and opinions affect.

    I am retired. I mentor a small group of people who I am hopefully going to help support in getting through this, and I give what advice and opinions I can on these pages, but I no longer have to face (other) employees whose jobs I am taking, or putting on warning, or whose mortgages, marriages and children's birthday presents I might be jeopardising.... But what I do still know, and remember, is that being honest, empathetic, and honestly caring toward those we sometimes have to give the "hard word" to, COUNTS.

    I have even had someone who I had just dismissed for gross misconduct shake my hand and thank me for at least listening to his side of the story.

    So now I am going to be self-indulgent and tell you all, for what it's worth, that it still gives me massive pride and fulfilment to share a profession with people like all of you. Who care about what we do, even when it's tough, and messy, and uncertain. ...And while I can't match David's contribution of thoughts for depth and poetic provenance, perhaps the motto of my first professional body, the Royal Air Force, might be borrowed by us (for a while at least): "Per Ardua, ad Astra". It means: "Through adversity, to the Stars."

    Keep it in mind.

    P

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