I just had a miscarriage yesterday and I have been off work for part of Friday last week, yesterday (Monday) and today. I work in a pretty high pressure time sensitive environment but my bosses told me not to worry about the work the past few days. Despite this, I have been checking my email on my phone and there are a number of people who have emailed me and are getting my out of office response yet they are basically spamming my email trying to get a response and sending some pretty terse emails because they can't get a hold of me. This is the industry I work in and usually it doesn't bother me but I feel like I'm going to snap. They obviously don't know what is going on but I feel like I am going to lose control and completely lose it on these people! How do you handle pressure back at work? How do you keep it together? I feel like I'm going to say or do things that I will later regret but I am just so angry I feel I can't control myself. I just don't know what to do??
Re: How to cope at work?
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I am sorry you are going through this.
I made the decision to tell a few close people and my boss what was going on. Everyone was very supportive and gave me some space. I hope as time goes by, it gets easier though I don't believe the pain will go away.