Shesh. Going to try to "share" without jumping on my high horse, but DANG I don't know why healthcare is ruled by high school mentality individuals. Ooooops, already did it .
Rumors. They are so...........off base and twisted sometimes. Without sharing too much (don't want to mess this one up, at least not within the same sentence this time), I'll give the details.
Some of us were planning on attending an event. It was going to be a little bit of a few co-workers getting together, doing some fun stuff. Well, those plans crashed due to lack of available tickets (not going to use stubhub and overpay so, its a no go) and that was that.
Well, someone else, with connections, got tickets to a different but similar event and, just via making small talk (probably didn't even know about the above) told a few people about their plans.
OMG:eek: The rumors about how they got the tickets and who they will/wont invite are NUTS/CRAZY/JUVENILE. Ok, off the horse again. But, its like being in high school, some of the rumors are just soooo..............IDK, made me say "Where did you come up with that?".
And I don't want to hear "Oh, it happens everywhere. Nursing doesn't have a monopoly on this......................". Ummmm............it may not have a monopoly but it is a Fortune 500 Company and is well on its way to a monopoly. Shesh.
It may be more of a female dominated workplace thing.
I use to work at UPS in college. I was the only female in my area (out of 20 guys). Guys really didn't gossip. If they had a problem with you, they would just tell you to f*#! off. Sometimes I really miss those days.
I've worked in male dominated fields (computing) and a mostly male workplace is different. I've seen them go out and started punching each other in the parking lot, and the backstabbing is still there, it's just not as open and "catty" as it is working with mostly women.
But...one thing I noticed us girls don't do....when the engineers would be having a big meeting on an important project, millions of bucks on the table, the guys'd go to the men's room during a break and then all come out and stand around and talk --- and "package check" as they did it. We'd stand around and try to determine if frequency of check meant they were getting their way, or they were trying to illicit support for their view. Not making this up!
It may be more of a female dominated workplace thing.
I use to work at UPS in college. I was the only female in my area (out of 20 guys). Guys really didn't gossip. If they had a problem with you, they would just tell you to f*#! off. Sometimes I really miss those days.
This is what I think, but being a guy, I'm not allowed to say it..............I can "second that motion" though.
I've worked in male dominated fields (computing) and a mostly male workplace is different. I've seen them go out and started punching each other in the parking lot, and the backstabbing is still there, it's just not as open and "catty" as it is working with mostly women.
But...one thing I noticed us girls don't do....when the engineers would be having a big meeting on an important project, millions of bucks on the table, the guys'd go to the men's room during a break and then all come out and stand around and talk --- and "package check" as they did it. We'd stand around and try to determine if frequency of check meant they were getting their way, or they were trying to illicit support for their view. Not making this up!
See, when it comes to this, the male population is split almost directly down the middle. There are the ones who do it, and those who don't.
When I was a landscaper, I worked with a lot of the ones who do. But we called it "stick shifting". I had to tell a few guys "Ya know, any more than one stick shift an hour means one of two things: 1. You are playing with yourself, in which case you are weird and you are fired or 2. You like me and are trying to work up the courage to tell me, in which case I'm putting you on George's crew." Yes, George was the openly gay flower planter.
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canyonforest, MSN, RN, NP
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thought I was the only one who felt like this (still) about my workplace
sort of darn if you do, darn if you don't....sometimes I wonder where these people came from....