I would work a certain floor and my buddy nurse would make side comments like, "Oh you're working today? She must be on vacation." Making side comments asking me why I'm working on that certain floor.
They are all nosy asking me how I managed to get the job there. Then I hear them commenting saying that how I get more shifts than nurses who are more senior than I am. To me I would not know. Am I the staffing clerk? Am I the Director of Care?
Not sure why they do not mind their own business. Literally, its like I did not know you were the boss and decided where I work.
I don't want to be mean, but I feel offended and not wanted when they ask me those questions. Questioning me as if I am a nobody. Now I'm not sure if its the way they were brought up. Most of those workers like that were not born in Canada they all went to nursing school outside Canada and just wrote their exam in Canada and were granted a license, cause I know most of the people I went to school with were disciplined and did not behave like that.
They are most likely not very happy people and there is no reason to personalize what other people do. Like someone else just suggested on here you have to make YOU happy by finding hobbies or doing things you like to do. Cherish the relationships you have to counteract the jerks!
Can't like this enough. Also occurs to me that some wisdom to take away from all of this is that maybe it's not about YOU. Maybe the people you work with are responding to a miserable environment. Oppressed people don't behave well and you just happened to be a convenient target at the time. Once we can take our own egos out of the frying pan, life becomes a lot easier.
subee, MSN, CRNA
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Can't like this enough. Also occurs to me that some wisdom to take away from all of this is that maybe it's not about YOU. Maybe the people you work with are responding to a miserable environment. Oppressed people don't behave well and you just happened to be a convenient target at the time. Once we can take our own egos out of the frying pan, life becomes a lot easier.