I work in a place that has circa 20 people. 10 in one Dept, 6 or so in another, plus me and 3 others in mine. 1 of those is road based, one is currently vacant and the other is my boss who is rarely here. Therefore I am generally on my own, upstairs in a huge office.
This has some good points to it - no disruptions, I manage myself and my day etc etc but I have voiced in the past just how isolating and lonely it can be and have hot desked in another department just to have some company and noise.
Today colleague from another department mentioned they were having a team lunch in the meeting room. I said "Oh, I wasn't aware" Meaning it's not in the diary, no-one had mentioned it. I am usually required to cover the phones when they are in a whole team lunch.
Colleague responded with "Well, I don't mean to sound horrible but why would we tell you - you're not in our team are you"
See above reason and just common courtesy when 50% of the workforce disappear and no-one knows where they are.
It's really gotten under my skin. Really. I feel alone enough in this fucking place as it is, let alone basically being told I am not part of a team.
I know it's childish but I don't get invited to my OWN department's lunches in the past because "I'm not sales" and have been excluded in the past from the commission scheme because I don't qualify - I was the only person out of them team who didn't qualify.
When voicing my feelings to a manager in the past, I was basically told that it's not their fault that there's no space downstairs, and even if there were, they wouldn't really want me sat with their team.
It's just really pissed me off and made me feel even more isolated.
So tempted to just think y'know what, fuck it, I'm going home. I am struggling a lot at the moment with health issues (I have ME, an underactive thyroid and depression and anxiety) but have hauled my arse into work so as not to let people down.
I genuinely don't know why I fucking bother.