Cra Cra co-workers

[NursesRmofun]

I know you have had them. Ones that drove you crazy, acted off kilter, and just made things either more interesting or more difficult. If you can write about them without IDing them, go ahead.

I had one several years ago....omg...I would get to work and had some time between duties. She had a different position, but she also had some seat time. I sat near her and she told me how her meds. weren't working and her whole personal history in a matter of just a couple work days. Then, at some point, I know she was gossiping how *I* was sitting and doing nothing but talking to HER. My mistake was I sat near her. I changed seats after that...to another sitting area all together.

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

I was the house supervisor at a small rural hospital. Thanksgiving night, one of two ICU RNs calls off at the last minute because her cat was missing. That's Thursday. Sunday night, she's scheduled to work again. Calls off late again. Why? Because her cat had returned home and seemed 'emotionally needy'.

I kid you not.

[HeyNurse2014, ASN, RN]

Before I read this thread I was wondering why I'm having a hard time getting a job. (Just moved and will be starting a RN to BSN program in January). Now I realize I'm not crazy enough.

[SleeepyRN]

I was the house supervisor at a small rural hospital. Thanksgiving night, one of two ICU RNs calls off at the last minute because her cat was missing. That's Thursday. Sunday night, she's scheduled to work again. Calls off late again. Why? Because her cat had returned home and seemed 'emotionally needy'.

I kid you not.

Lol. I remember this story. I still have to laugh.

[CaffeinePOQ4HPRN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN]

We had one nurse who was an eccentric character with ZERO sense of humor... Her presence wouldn't elicit so much funny "ha ha" reactions as it did nervous laughter. She was so serious all the time, never cracked a smile or showed much emotion. Not too many people paid her oddness much attention, as she was quite good at her job and her assessment skills were stellar! The month she self-imploded was marked by a change in her make-up application. She was always know for wearing bright, fire engine kinda bright red lipstick. However, over time, she began to apply it sloppier and sloppier until it was noticeably abstract and overlapping her natural vermilion border. When she came to work looking like the picture below, we staged an intervention to get her whatever therapeutic help she needed.

[CaffeinePOQ4HPRN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN]

Note: I work in geriatrics, most of our pts are demented and incontinent. In addition to the lipstick incident cray, I currently work with one nurse who (at the start of her shift) takes a pair the extra absorbent incontinent briefs (aka adult diapers) we use on our patients and wears them. I bluntly asked her about it once and she said she does it so that she can get through the exorbitant amount of work we're saddled with without having to bother with the inconvenience of toileting herself because "there's just no time, besides no one will notice the smell anyway... everyone s**ts themselves here". I kid you not.

[NursesRmofun, ASN, RN]

I remember one who was also bipolar and did cartwheels in the hall. But at least she kept her clothes on.

bahahaha

[NursesRmofun, ASN, RN]

By the way, as the unofficial Allnurses post critic, and contributor to this otherwise excellent thread, it should have been titled "Cray Cray Coworkers". The 'y' at the end of the word makes the 'A' sound long.

My humble apologies. lol

[NursesRmofun, ASN, RN]

I work with someone who's completely crazy. She's got a very loud and colorful personality but cannot be trusted with the slightest thing because the moment you tell her anything it's all around the department, usually with embellishment. She tells everyone her husband was in the CIA and died in a fiery car crash, and that her daughter works for the FBI but the story changes each time she tells it. She tells everyone she has a Master's from an Ivy league University, but a search revealed she went to a community college in Florida. Lots of ideation of grandiosity.

She runs to the boss every 5 minutes and has tried to get so many people fired. She's incredibly manipulative and is always trying to make people do things they don't want to make her life easier, and then complains about how hard she has to work. In reality, all she does is talk, put her nose in other people's business and then make it look like she's doing something by getting involved, but somehow cleverly manages to palm it off on someone else. In meetings she just talks over everybody, even though it's plain to all in the room she has absolutely no idea what she's talking about, but nobody ever calls her on it. Sometimes I just cringe because it's excrutiatingly embarrasing how little she knows but she never stops. I've wasted an entire hour in a meeting where all she did was flap with the mouth full of hot air, and wasting everybody's time. Complaining about her is pointless as management always turn it back on the complainer, as many people have discovered.

If anyone works from home, she will bombard them with messages to make sure they're doing their job just in case she can find a reason to get someone in trouble. She takes small innocuous situations and turns them into massive dramas and then inserts herself in the middle of the drama to make herself look important and pivotal. It's exhausting. I keep away as much as I can but she is determined to suck you in and before you know it you're in the middle of it. I don't know where she gets the energy.

THIS one would make me going screaming into the night. LOL

[NursesRmofun, ASN, RN]

I was the house supervisor at a small rural hospital. Thanksgiving night, one of two ICU RNs calls off at the last minute because her cat was missing. That's Thursday. Sunday night, she's scheduled to work again. Calls off late again. Why? Because her cat had returned home and seemed 'emotionally needy'.

I kid you not.

Sounds like someone who would welcome getting canned...for the sake of the cat, of course. LOL

[NursesRmofun, ASN, RN]

Note: I work in geriatrics, most of our pts are demented and incontinent. In addition to the lipstick incident cray, I currently work with one nurse who (at the start of her shift) takes a pair the extra absorbent incontinent briefs (aka adult diapers) we use on our patients and wears them. I bluntly asked her about it once and she said she does it so that she can get through the exorbitant amount of work we're saddled with without having to bother with the inconvenience of toileting herself because "there's just no time, besides no one will notice the smell anyway... everyone s**ts themselves here". I kid you not.

This is a winner. Maybe not the most cray co-worker, since apparently she has bladder issues...but a funny story.

[NursesRmofun, ASN, RN]

Sorry, I was delayed in reading some of these...and they were so worth reading! hahaha

[NursesRmofun, ASN, RN]

OH MY....I guess your instincts were right on the money...small cancellation! OMG!

I had a Freudian slip here. LOL CONSOLATION.