AIBU to block my boss on email?

[GarlicMonkey]

Scared of outing so new account.

We (my 4 kids & I, single mum) are all at home self isolating because one of my children has a temperature. I am running errands for 4 elderly relatives (picking up bags from 1 doorstep & dropping at another miles away), I'm worried sick over money & a friend is going through crisis & taking up a lot of phone & messenger time. I'm utterly exhausted & on top of it all, my boss won't leave me alone. To cut a very long list of things short, she's sending very long emails picking faults & taking offence at things that, in some instances, happened weeks ago. She's also saying things that make me worry about my security but then doesn't respond to my questions for hours, like she's purposely leaving me in suspence to worry. It's as if she can't bare for my focus to be on anything but work (I'm not working from home, I don't have the necessary equipment, even though I have offered).

She's always been a bit of a control freak who demands capitulation but it's getting beyond a joke now. Is it reasonable to block her? It'd be pointless my reporting her to seniors as they think the sun shines out of her rear & she can do no wrong. Excuse the dramatics but it feels like torture, like I'm a mouse being played with by a cat. I don't understand what sick agenda this is. Why are people like this? Things are difficult enough at the moment without her behaving this way. I just want to cry but I sense that this is what she wants so I'm refusing to show weakness.

Considering blocking her email address. It's my personal email account she's sending to, not a work one.

Why are you running errands if you are self isolating??

Definitely block her from your personal email. Has it been agreed that she can use this to contact you?

Yes block her if she is not using the work email . She sounds like she enjoys the power she has over you . As long as you are doing your job when you’re at work there is nothing she can do . Please try to speak to HR but switch off when you finish work be kind to yourself

In my place of work that would be a serious disciplinary offence and if you're not self isolating because you're out and about running errands, you haven't really got a leg to stand on

I don't think you've quite got the self-isolation message. If you can run errands, you're not isolating, you're spreading.

You are not self isolating...

Tell her to send all work based correspondence to your work email while CCing your work email address. After that, wait a couple hours for her to respond, just in case then block her on your personal email. If she doesn’t hear from you, she may finally understand that you’re only conversing through the work email.

If she has the brazen audacity to start texting you on your personal phone number, rinse and repeat then block her.

@edwinbear

Because nobody else can/will.

@FrankieDoyle

Yes, but in a casual way months ago. I was going to say I got locked out of the account hence didn't get her emails. They've got my number if I'm needed & I'd rather she rang because she's not confrontational 'in person', just via email & 3rd parties.

Errands = I'm picking up carrier bags from outside closed doors & dropping off outside other closed doors.

This is not self isolation and you are putting these elderly relatives at risk.

You should not be leaving the house.

Can you send her emails to your boss?

Isolating but running errands ffs

I would not block as could be a disciplinary issue, but I would create a subfolder (don't name it sth rude, it will backfire one day) and create a rule for their email to get there. That would allow me to put distance and select a time of reading.

see this is why voluntary self isolation will not work. You are not self isolating, you are touching the bags as are the people you are passing them too. once today is over and schools are done we will be staying in unless vital.

You can set up a filter that all her emails are sent to a different folder which you can then ignore until you want to deal with them if that's better than blocking her. On one of my email providers if you block someone it will send them a 'could not deliver' message which might piss her off.

OP you cannot be handling carrier bags which are leaving one elderly relatives house and then heading into another elderly relatives house, you really can't. You are putting them at huge risk by handling things and passing them over.

Self isolating is not going out apart from maybe to your back garden.

What your doing sounds like proper social distancing however this is not good enough if one of you has symptoms.

Please read up on this, it is more than important !!!!

If you are self isolating but running errands for others, surely to do so you must have been going to the shops?
People are really not taking this isolation seriously are they?

OP, immediately STOP RUNNING ERRANDS!

FFS, you are putting those people at enormous risk! The virus can stay on surfaces for up to 9 days!

Self isolating = staying indoors
Running errands = going out and about

How can you possibly be doing both ?

I don't think it's not taking it seriously. I think people genuinely can't comprehend what the self isolating actually means

If the correct precautions are taken, this still can be self isolation. This depends on Op using rubber gloves or sanitising her hands once touched the bags, then the recipients thoroughly washing the contents of the bags or leaving them alone for a couple of days until guaranteed germ free.... and of her not getting in a car accident of course. There are always risks.

I immediately stopped reading and voted YABU when you said you ran errands in isolation.