I actually like my coworkers

[Jules A, MSN]

am I the only one?

Maybe I'm the exception but I have not experienced the whole nurses eating their young saga at the jobs I had as a new nurse. Sure there were a couple that weren't so helpful to me at first but once they realized that I was a team player and respectful of their experience they warmed up to me. I have a pretty thick skin anyway and figure that as with any job, class, driving down the highway etc. there will be some people I like a lot more than others but that is to be expected. I havent ever seen anyone else bullied like the rumors go.

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

I'm glad for you.

[Jules A, MSN]

I was only hoping to start a positive thread about the good teams. I'd roll my eyes but that might be misconstrued as bullying.

[BrnEyedGirl, BSN, MSN, RN, APRN]

I like my coworkers also. We are like family and many of us spend a great deal of time together outside of the hospital.

[Mulan]

Well, good for you!

[CarsonsMommy]

:sofahider someone's trying to say something positive and then we have negative field all around, yikes!

[Sparrowhawk]

For the most part I do too...at this point it's management I'm having the issues with *snicker*

[Imafloat, BSN, RN]

I like and/or respect the majority of my coworkers. There are only a couple of people I don't care for, but I figure that's how life goes, everyone isn't going to like everyone.

[Diana2002]

I have liked my co-workers in past jobs --- don't dislike the ones I have now, but could not say they are "friends" or likely to become friends. Management is, as usual, incompetent, but not malevolent.

[Mulan]

I don't see where anyone is being negative.

Maybe negativity is in the eye of the beholder.

[mama_d, BSN, RN]

I love most of my night shift coworkers, and of those that are left, I mostly like them. There's only one who really grates, and that's b/c she's lazy and dumps on the techs.

I'm close enough to several of my coworkers that those are the people I tend to go out with, and even invited them along when I went out with my family for my birthday not that long ago.

I guess that that's a pretty good indication of how well we get along...whenever birthday plans get made for most of us, if it includes a night out, the rest of us (in general) are invited along. If you're close enough to your coworkers to want to spend your birthday with them, that's saying something!

[Spatialized]

My night shift co-workers rock, plain and simple. Not such a big fan of the day shift, but I don't hate 'em by any means. It's sad when it is perceived as "odd" or "strange" to like ones co-workers. Says something about our profession eh?

Tom