Well... since you posted this yesterday, presumably your day at work today has already occurred. Hopefully it went well & you're okay. In reference to your question, I suppose it would depend on who the people are. If they were co-workers perhaps one could just explain the situation to them & ask them for some consideration. If the people were clients or customers, that sort of thing, then of course it's a different situation. Then I think one would just have to do one's best to not take the trouble they dole out to heart... difficult as that may be.

Perhaps if you're familiar with the concept of compassionate abiding, you might be able to use this to help get you though these kinds of situations in the future. Here's a link to a description of the practice, in case you're not familiar:

https://mindsetdoc.wordpress.com/201...e-abiding-101/

May it be of benefit.