Yesterday was not a good day. It was the ultimate bad day at the end of a bad coupla weeks. Work was stressful. As it often is. But my meds weren’t doing their job which meant that
- My other meds were being flushed through too quickly meaning I was what you could call totes emote
- My body was dehydrated meaning I was getting headaches and not sleeping
Now whilst there may have been mitigating circumstances (see above), that did not excuse me losing my temper with a colleague (or him losing his temper with me). There was a little shouting and then some hugging. But I knew I had stepped out of bounds. And this upsets me. And of course as mentioned, I am totes emote, and so was feeling sad and vulnerable.
As all good humans do, I decided to go to the ladies loo for a wee and a snuffle. I was snuffling away in my cubicle when I heard the door open, causing me to try and stem my snuffle. Then I heard the snuffle of another. There were two of us crying in the loo, for heaven’s sake. I did the only mature thing and exited the cubicle to come red eye to red eye with a colleague from another team. We exchanged glances, ageeed the loo wasn’t the best place to hide as “people keep using it as a bathroom!” and went our separate ways.
I wasn’t quite ready to rejoin my team so I sat on the stairs for a bit out of the way until I had regained my poise.
Why am I writing this? Well firstly I am still feeling sad and vulnerable and blogging helps me deal with that. But the even reminded me of an article I read about the University of Utah adding a crying closet to their library.
Cry closet!
And I wondered if workplaces should maybe have a cry closet too. A small space for colleagues to go and have a 10 minute snuffle, when it all gets too much.
The one in Uni Utah (UofU?) has soft toys for a snuggle and is “a safe place for stressed out students”. I would like one of them.
