Hello everyone. I've been a CNA for a while and work in a facility. It has a bad reputation for nasty nurses and a low rating for care by patients families, but I personally had no big problems in my facility until recently. It's a long story (over a period of months) but there is a CNA who is friendly to people's face but talks endless trash behind their backs to anyone that will listen. I've ignored it until now, when I became the most recent "target". She's recruited the brand new batch of cna hires and sort of poisoned them against the other shifts and anyone she doesn't like, including me.
Now shes made a clique of women following her and she trash talks about people they dont even know so that they will dislike them. again I wouldn't normally let this affect me, but she deliberately spreads false rumors about people and tries to get people in trouble. There are two other ladies who got written up (one fired) directly as a result of her lies. i don't know if she knows that, but she still laughs or says something demeaning when they are mentioned. I've reported her bullying, but without proof my don said she can't take action. Her last "target" quit working our shift because of her bullying. She doesn't curse or insult, just does things to make people feel obviously excluded or humiliated.
They recently started doing small things that made me think i'm the next target. Trivial things, nothing important... like not looking me in the eyes or answering me, sometimes asking weird personal questions, saying good morning to everyone except me, telling me to stop being "extra" when I try to do my job correctly (instead of cutting corners like they do), rolling their eyes when I speak, me being the only one they don't say "bless you" to after sneezing, walking in on them directly saying negative things about me when they don't know i'm in the room. Now I recently got blamed for something I didn't do, and my supervisor trusts me so she came to me and asked me directly if it was true and I said no of course it's not. she said well I have three other people who say it happened this way, and I had to finally explain to her the bullying i've been ignoring for months and how it's gotten worse since these newbies arrived.
Right now i'm thinking of just quitting but my friends and family keep telling me to stay and fight. I love my job (until now), but I feel like nobody understands the environment I am working in... it's 3 against one and all of her other victims have quit except one. I don't think it's a coincidence! I don't want to fight a losing battle and I feel don't have the energy or willpower for it. what would you do in my situation? or what did you do if you've been there?
