I am currently recovering from depression (on anti depressants) and my New Years resolution was to focus on the good.
I am a teacher and I aim to come into work for 7am, so that I can leave earlier and go home to enjoy my evening ( creating a good work life balance).
Every morning I come to work and sit at my desk with a pile of things to do. I have two specific members of staff that will come in my classroom, sit on a desk and start talking/ complaining.
One member of staff is a woman and she is a complete ‘mood hoover’. She feels that she is always the victim, everyone is against her and every week she is saying that she is planning on leaving the school as no one respects her. I don’t see this and tell her to speak to the head teacher. But she never does and she will sit there moaning instead of actually doing anything. She moans about workload and will talk about it for hours without actually getting her head down and doing it! She will speak to me for an hour, even though I make it obvious and look at the computer giving short answers! (I feel so rude).
Then an older male colleague (who has autism) will come and speak to me for no reason every morning (40 minutes) about the most random things with no purpose. Again he isn’t getting the message.
It’s getting to the point where I can’t get anything done and end up leaving work late. I feel frustrated but don’t want to be rude. Any tips?