Just cried at work in front of my line manager, tell me it will be ok?

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Ugh. Just cried - thankfully over teams ... the trigger was being asked if I'm ok. Turns out I'm not.. it's not work or performance related, but things going on at home. I'm just super embarrassed and apologised profusely. I'm now scared I'm going to be fired. I'm not sleeping well at the moment and worried about everything.

My manager was reassuring and nice about the whole thing. But it wasn't very professional.

Someone tell me it will be ok?

I’ve cried to my manager quite a few times and plenty of my team cried to me regularly!

I had tissues on my desk for 1:1’s!

We are human, I find it sad really that it’s seen as something to be embarrassed about!

I work in mental health though and our job has been incredibly stressful this past year so I guess it’s to be expected! Lots of my team have had personal issues too including me and we have supported each other.

I left yesterday and spent most of the day teary as did lots of my colleagues. It was very emotional! The reason I left was stress and there definitely was an increase in me crying at work this year which was different as I could see I was breaking hence leaving.

Been there, done it and survived. Your manager will ( should) want to support you as much as possible. As much as we try to detach home and work lives it is not always possible. Deep breath. Tomorrow is another day.

If it makes you feel any better, my personal record is crying on both of my immediate managers and my grand boss in the same afternoon! It was a very stressful period at work, and they were all uniformly lovely about it. Not only did it not affect their view of me, but I've been promoted since into senior management, so any decent managers will understand that it's just a thing that sad or wrung out humans do sometimes. Take a breath and give yourself a bit of compassion. Can you take this afternoon off for a bit of headspace?

We all too often are asked that question ‘are you ok?’ And it is answered too quickly ‘I’m fine’. At least you answered honestly.
It’ll be fine. He may check in with you Monday to see if all’s ok.

OP we're all humans - at work too. Humans weep sometimes. It's in no way an offence, never mind a fireable one.

Oh, and lots of my staff have cried on me at various points. I consider it an honour they trust me enough to be open, to be honest, it never diminishes my opinion of them.

My bosses boss balled her eyes out at me on a call once when her dog had to be put down. I didn’t think any less of her at all.

Please don't worry and upset yourself over this.
I cried many a time in front of my line manager.Most of the occasions were when she'd ask me if I was ok because she was worried about me as I was looking stressed and not my usual bubbly laid back self.
I was grateful that she cared enough .
We are still very good friends and meet up for coffee and lunch so I know she doesn't hold a grudge about the number of times I left her with a soggy shoulder.

What's the line manager like, I wouldn't want to cry in front of my line manager but he wouldn't be good at managing it and I can't think how he's help at all.

Over Teams is a bit different, I wouldn't worry about it.

I have never apologised for crying and would never want anyone to apologise to me for crying in front of me. Would you want an apology for someone crying in front of you?

I'm a line manager and have both had people cry in meetings with me and cried myself. Don't worry about it. It's good that your LM knows to keep an extra eye on you at the moment.

@Goldenbear he's nice enough, but a lot younger than me and I'm a 40 year old woman.. not that it matters but I'd have preferred to break down in front of another woman perhaps, especially given the circumstances I was getting upset about. But it's ok, what's done is done. I don't think I'd have got emotional if it was face to face in the office.

No big deal I suppose. He's probably forgotten about it by now.