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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?  

  • in reply to Katie
    Even if on-line interviewing might be too technically difficult for the company to arrange (although I can't see why) they should at the very least be providing you with some protection/screening for direct contacts. If at can be done for checkout operators it can be done by fixing a perspex sheet to a desk-edge! Not rocket-science!

    Point out section 2 of the Health and Safety Act (1974) and politely ask how they are going to explain to the HSE how they failed in their duty if care if you catch the virus, especially after your requests for online working or other alternatives?
  • in reply to Lisa
    @ Lisa
    I hope today is a better day, and I'll bet the people who you are inputting data and proof-reading for don't consider you worthless or useless; not least as you are (self-evidently) someone who is prepared to put yourself out for others, even without payment. We are going to need a lot more people like that in the weeks and months to come as CV19, Brexit, Trump-ism and all the other long-term effects of national and international issues we are faced with become apparent and need resolution.

    The sharing of support from colleagues here, both personal and professional, is there to both reach for and contribute to (as you already have, over three-hundred times). You, and what you share, have value and much to offer, not least in offering new avenues of diversion to explore: Inputting historical weather data? Does that mean we're putting in a bid for an improvement grant from the Weather-Man?

    ....Last time we did that Micheal Fish sent us a (not) Hurricane!

    Tell us more.... :-)
  • in reply to Peter
    I will do Peter. Always useful to be armed with the right piece of legislation. Thank you :)
  • in reply to Peter
    Peter

    Your lovely kind words have brought (happy) tears to my eyes. Thank you so much. Really appreciate it.

    Oh and I remember Mr Fish and his infamous 'no hurricane Mrs Smith' prediction hahaha

    I have just been inputting more historical weather data and saw I have done over 500 lots of 12 month data from 1880 uo to the early 1920s. Really therapeutic but I need to get.out more....oh I can't can I? Back to it then....

    Lisa
  • in reply to Peter
    Oh and here is the link just in case anyone else would like to have a go!! There are 65,000 pages of weather data and it is about 53% completed.

    www.bbc.co.uk/.../science-environment-52040822

    Lisa
  • in reply to Lisa

    That looks like an amazing project with some potentially profound outcomes. I don't know about living on the top of Ben Nevis for a while to collect data through; they must have been tougher (or dafter) in those days!

    ...Although as a spot for "socially isolating" it could have its moments..... :-)

    Not quite Ben Nevis, but some wide open spaces to see here, courtesy of an HR Colleague of ours, now also turned author and Royal Tour Guide, no less.

    https://www.facebook.com/pg/CumbrianRambler/posts/?ref=notif


    P

  • Absolutely! I report to the COO and yet I had to ask him if my job was safe yet simultaneously trying to reassure everyone else around me. It's oddly comforting to hear that I'm not alone with my concerns.
  • Hi everybody & Amanda, I wonder how you all are fairing now, after almost a month ... and how you combat this strange phase? I'd be interested indeed ...
    Me, I am doing daily positive mind-focus exercises and am as creative as possible to support my mental health, as I am alone in my cottage (not even a pet) ... strange how priorities shift now. A big rethink and reset for all... With warm wellness wishes for all, Iris