To want to see another adult during my working day?

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I am a teacher. We don’t have a staffroom, just offices for each department with sink and a kettle.

I seem to have a different lunch to everybody else, so with the exception of weekly meetings I never see or meet my colleagues.

AIBU to think it’s a bit shit I’m expected to work alone like this?

You’re not unreasonable if you’re a social person and like having those little interactions through the day.

Though my husband is a teacher and I know for a fact that he would love not having to chat with other staff, he actively seeks out somewhere quiet to sit and have his lunch alone so he can have a bit of headspace and get some jobs done quietly without being interrupted.

Definitely not unreasonable, I'm not a teacher but I work in a really small office and am not allowed to wfh, there's quite a few days where I see absolutely no body! It's really lonely. I can imagine it's the same with teaching, obviously you're surrounded by kids all day, but sometimes you just need to have a back and fourth chat with a grown up!

I'd find this hard! I have a lovely department who make an effort to sit together for lunch every day! Not always possible, and usually rushed, but I am glad that we do it.
Teaching needs a team.
Could you find another department to sit with for your lunch? Or not run a club- but help out for company?

I don’t think we have any clubs and to be honest I definitely don’t want to do that - I just want to flop out and have a moan for a bit.

@RomeoMcFlourish I might choose too sometimes as well but I have no choice. And I feel a bit fed up with it. My husband has no idea what teaching is like so I have this horribly stressful job I can’t vent abou.

I work in a tiny office, we do part time wfh and part time office. My office days I can be completely on my own all day as it's a big office with no staff (we have larger city offices, this is a satellite office). I hate it, I'd rather wfh on my own in the comfort of my house.

I like working alone. I'm a cleaner though, (and often spend two hours just hoovering, or an hour mopping), so If I can wear headphones, and listen to an audiobook in peace, it's like a gym membership where I get paid to work out, instead of paying. But that's just me.

It's lonely being a teacher, even when you do mix at breaks. By the time you've listened to DC read/helped Dc/supervised the dc that can't go out/done playground duty, it's a day spent pretty much alone/playing the role of teacher.

It's like a non stop presentation/stage show, with occasional loo breaks.