CNA_NY

I've spoken to other CNAs that get partnered with her who have been there for years and they say they simply ignore it as well. Maybe that's why she continues to be a bully. Well , I'm assertive when she asks me something or orders me to do things for her patients. I ignore her when she makes her snotty comments , which I know I shouldn't, but I'm not really sure how to say it or what would happen after wards. I don't want it to turn into a fight. I overheard her one time saying how someone made a comment about her not answering lights and that they sort of yelled at her which I doubt they did, but she threatened to hit that person if they yelled at her again and that she didn't care about her job. Thats sort of who she is. I always hate confrontation like this especially in the work setting lol...Thanks for your response fuzzy wuzzy and you're advice. I will try asserting myself more at work with this CNA. ! Wish me luck

I know these things are silly. I've been a CNA for about 2 years now, and just started working at this beautiful facility 8 mts ago in ny that I LOVE. I've become friends with most of my coworkers, and adore my job. I've always been told this CNA was rude and nasty and that no one liked her, but I still treated her nicely. A couple of weeks ago I got paired up with her ( I've never had her as a partner) but went about my day. She orders me around, intimidates people, hogs certain things from other workers and is just mean. When she ordered me to go down to the kitchen for one of her patients , ( while I have mine which was 10 that day and a really hard group) I simply replied no sorry I have to do something. Ever since then she's been super mean to me and I've just ignored her. She doesn't help. Around the last hour she disapears and leaves me with all her call lights. Since then, when I get partnered up with her , I just ask the other CNAs on the other side of me for help. I've ignored her snotty remarks towards me. " you know what I don't care" " you know what don't worry about it." I smile and simply say okay. When we pick up trays and if I am near her, she slams them in the cart. She'll then take the big cart of trays to the kitchen and while she's doing this and right after I'm done feeding the feeders, I'll ask her oh all of our trays are picked up? She says yes then I go look and all of my patients still have them. I'm not saying that she should pick mine up, I'm saying she should have team work and if she sees rooms that are mine with trays, she should leave the cart rather than me walk each tray all the way to the kitchen and back. I think me ignoring this and smiling and doing my job fuels her fire, but I also think if I say something to her it would just make it even worse. She's sort of the person that is super rude to people, but if you say something back to her, it all blows up. All the staff knows about her behavior, yet she seems to only be doing this towards me. Maybe because I assert myself and ignore it. Anyways, I love my job, I love my coworkers, and I'm not saying she is a mean person...but man is she a ***** to work with