Brown-Nosing Co-Workers Anyone?

[Brian]

There's at least one in every bunch. You know the type. They have brown-nosing perfected as an art. After all....they practice it every chance they get. Tell us about the brown-nosers in your workplace and what they do that gets on your nerves.

[ceebeejay]

People who hope to gain by stepping on the necks of their peers are brown nosers. Not to be confused with cultivating your career goals as Tokmon (sorry if I spelled that incorrectly) described. I have heard people call co-workers brown noses, simply because they managed to have dialogue with management. That doesn't benefit anyone, in any career.

[Mandychelle79, ASN, RN]

There aren't really any brown nosers on my shift. We have a lot more rebellious types that go out of the way to not do things that management asks us to do. Management just attempted to trial hourly rounding paper sheets in our ICU (really?!?! I am in my patient's room way more than once an hour usually, why make me fill out a paper). We have locators on that show where we were. Most of my coworkers wrote, "See locator" on the first line and put ditto signs all down the rest of the page instead of actually filling it out with times... it was pretty funny. We are a nonconformist bunch.

My shift is usually the rebellious one too. Ticks the brown nosers off because we toe the line but never cross it and fess up if the line has been crossed, so no one can snitch.

[Mandychelle79, ASN, RN]

Oh yeah I know P-L-E-N-T-Y of brown nosers. They spend so much time telling on others or trying to see what everyone else is doing they have no time for their own job. While it earns them nothing money wise I have seen exceptions be made for them with vacation, attendance, etc that others do not. I'd rather do my job and keep some dignity.

Do you work on my unit?

[sharpeimom]

Think of Eddie Haskell on Leave It To Beaver and you'll know exactly what a brown-noser is. "That's a very nice dress you're wearing today, Mrs. Cleaver."

[imenid37]

I do very much like my current boss. I don't always agree with her, but she is ok if your have your own mind. To me, that's respect and maturity. Not everyone in administration or leadership is a brown noser. Some do genuinely want to make an organization and nursing better. Usually more than anything, a brown-noser is looking out ultimately for #1.

My former boss was always out to impress and push her face, her name, and her "accomplishments" (even they were really things others had done) to the forefront. A former co-worker who also left the facility after many years, accurately described her as someone who used I in every sentence and made herself present in every photo op possible. A physician told me she was certain this woman was a "pathological liar" as she had taken care of every kind of patient, picked up every obscure symptom, and had every possible complication possible of various disorders herself. Next to the description of brown-noser they surely have her picture in the encyclopedia. They also have her cross-referenced her to the description of extreme narcissist. She brown-nosed the patient relations co-ordinator and all of nursing administration extensively. I am certain they could find traces of her DNA in the VP of nursing's rectum. She brags about how she is going to continue on for her "doctrine" degree. I guess she is too enamorate of herself to realize, it's called a d-o-c-t-o-r-a-t-e. She is an ace brown-noser, but actually more purely narcissistic than anything and frankly quite "stupid."