AIBU to feel so sad

[JaiLou79]

Today we’ve been instructed at work that we have to move to work from home for the foreseeable. I get it, and completely understand why, I would hate to catch or infect anyone.

What I’m struggling with is the sense of sadness and slight panic, not knowing where this is all going to end. I could cry at the thought of not seeing my colleagues and having that interaction. I do an emotionally challenging job and having that “banter” with people who understand is often much needed. Yes we can skype etc but it’s not the same.
AIBU to feel like this?

im in exactly the same boat

I feel like you are being a little bit unreasonable because I think you should be grateful to be able to work from home.

I'm sat here worried sick about what will happen if the schools close and I can't work.
My children came home today saying the teachers were talking about not being open after Friday.

I'm a single parent and have no relatives in my town who could help and anyway my family all have their own jobs to do.

I have been trying really hard up until now to not get sucked into the panic and worry of it all but I am starting to get really worried now about not being able to work and pay bills.

YANBU, many of us are in the same boat. I feel unsettled, detached, nervous. I know my colleagues feel the same. These are strange times and no-one really knows how it will pan out. I'm just hoping that I'll adjust but in the meantime we're all trying to bolster each other up.

My institute (about 100 people) has a long standing tradition of tea time at 3:30 everyday where we all gather for tea. but in the last few years, it has been very poorly attended (around 4-8 people, mostly those charged with organising the biscuits).

today was the first day my institute was working from home. and we set up a virtual tea time where everyone could log on to skype at the same time and chat. there were over 25 of us there, and I expect there will be more tomorrow.

So we can make social interactions work over the internet, we just have to put a bit more effort into making it happen. you don't just bump into people, so you need to reach out (horrible phrase) and make it work. And then somehow it does.

I felt like this last week, we decided to work from home last Thursday, I work for an extremely small company (6 people) and my colleagues are genuinely lovely.

We've had a fab day today, we set up an online team meeting where for the first time ever we switched on our cameras so we could all see one another, the team WhatsApp is super busy, loads of phone calls and the like!

Its funny how quickly you find a new normal, we've literally never been more connected!

I think you should be a bit more grateful that you can easily work from home. I Work for the nhs part time, in a non emergency capacity, but an important role nevertheless (psychology) and the nhs is not set up for home working. Appointments all cancelled so only telephone contact with patients. Today nobody had a clue what we would do moving forward yet we have people in our team in high risk categories but no laptops, phones, VPN's, Skype accounts etc. Madness

Apologies for sounding ungrateful for the possibility of being able to work from home. I am very grateful for this and lucky to be able to do some.

Just overwhelmed with emotions at the moment and couldn’t take a step back and see any positive. Part of me wonders if a break from the social media hype and the media coverage might help. I’m not worried about contracting the virus, I’m doing everything I can to follow hygiene etc. I think it’s the uncertainty within the world. A sense of doom that I just cannot shake off.