Special Snowflake!

Farawyn · Aug 1, 2015

*blinks*
Some of us not young, not pretty, not stuck up know it all students / new nurses are still awaiting our nickname.

Yoo are bootiful, Ood.

Farawyn · Aug 1, 2015

Fresh meat?

Bahahahahahhaaaa!!!

Farawyn · Aug 1, 2015

Some of us are older, seasoned nurses who prefer not to be referred to as crusty or bats.

I'm purdy batty, but not so crusty. Yet.

Farawyn · Aug 1, 2015

It's not a nurse thing. It describes anyone who thinks they're unique and special and deserves special treatment. I first heard the term at parenting websites (used to describe the special snowflakes whose parents think they don't deserve punishment or rules in school, for instance). It was overused then, and now it's become the phrase du jour here at Allnurses for the past year.
To me, the phrase "special snowflake" goes along with the terms "totes," "jelly," "awesome sauce," and "you win the internet!" as terms that are too ubiquitous to be clever anymore and they all annoy the bejeebers out of me.
I have to disclaim: I get really easily annoyed over words. A few years ago, the phrases that annoyed the piss out of me were "webinar" and "jeggings." I'm over it now.

Hate totes and jelly, but I've used them both in jest.

Hipster? That used to make me twitch.

Ruby Vee, BSN · Aug 1, 2015

If I were any more seasoned I'd fall apart.
I have never been called a Crusty Old Bat, nor have I ever eaten a newbie nurse (please reference my latest entry in "What I Learned This Week). Truthfully, I never heard the term before I came in here.
However, I do have a sense of humor, and while I have always taken my profession and what I do as a Nurse very seriously, I refuse to take MYSELF seriously.
The discussions about what constitutes a COB, who can be a Junior COB, et al, make me laugh. I like to laugh. Because, sometimes in the course of my job, I cry.
I just can't get my knickers in a twist about some words the leave me with the mental image of a bat wearing a white hat, Florence Nightingale cape and white Dr. Scholl's. But then, I've been told I have a weird sense of humor.

I daresay most of us crusty old bats have never actually eaten a newbie nurse, either . . . we just took an insult and made it something else again. A badge of honor, maybe. I've also been called a "fat, old, ugly biter nurse." FOUB?

(I've never even bitten a newbie!)

TriciaJ, RN · Aug 1, 2015

It's not a nurse thing. It describes anyone who thinks they're unique and special and deserves special treatment. I first heard the term at parenting websites (used to describe the special snowflakes whose parents think they don't deserve punishment or rules in school, for instance). It was overused then, and now it's become the phrase du jour here at Allnurses for the past year.
To me, the phrase "special snowflake" goes along with the terms "totes," "jelly," "awesome sauce," and "you win the internet!" as terms that are too ubiquitous to be clever anymore and they all annoy the bejeebers out of me.
I have to disclaim: I get really easily annoyed over words. A few years ago, the phrases that annoyed the piss out of me were "webinar" and "jeggings." I'm over it now.

I think "words and phrases that annoy the hell out of us" could be its own thread. Or have I missed such a thread?

WellThatsOod · Aug 1, 2015

Hate totes and jelly, but I've used them both in jest.
Hipster? That used to make me twitch.

There was this guy in my micro and A&P lab last year. Wore skinny jeans, Toms, and polo shirts that would ride up his belly when he stretched. Plus long sideburns and a goatee. I wanted to punch that guy every single day. I don't know why, just something about him made me seethe with rage every time I saw him. Which was everyday I was in classes.

klone, MSN, RN · Aug 1, 2015

Farawyn, you hate hipsters, or you hate the word?

Denver has its fair share of hipsters. I love them in a mocking, amused way.

Farawyn · Aug 1, 2015

Farawyn, you hate hipsters, or you hate the word?
Denver has its fair share of hipsters. I love them in a mocking, amused way.

I hate the word. Mostly. I totally get where Ood was coming from in her last post, though.

edmia, BSN, RN · Aug 1, 2015

This has been such a fun thread to follow, I must participate!

I'm beginning to accept that being in my 40s might mean I'm getting old(er)... So, I'm happy to embrace the COB badge.

But honestly, I'm not mean in real life. I do wish sometimes I could say what I'm really thinking... Some people are just so dumb I can't for the life of me figure out how they made it through nursing school.

And I have little patience for special snowflakes. In any setting.

Sent from my iPhone -- blame all errors on spellcheck

Farawyn · Aug 1, 2015

This has been such a fun thread to follow, I must participate!
I'm beginning to accept that being in my 40s might mean I'm getting old(er)... So, I'm happy to embrace the COB badge.
But honestly, I'm not mean in real life. I do wish sometimes I could say what I'm really thinking... Some people are just so dumb I can't for the life of me figure out how they made it through nursing school.
And I have little patience for special snowflakes. In any setting.
Sent from my iPhone -- blame all errors on spellcheck

You can say what you think. I do all the time, and I'm one of the least mean people you will meet.

Jensmom7, BSN, RN · Aug 1, 2015

I daresay most of us crusty old bats have never actually eaten a newbie nurse, either . . . we just took an insult and made it something else again. A badge of honor, maybe. I've also been called a "fat, old, ugly biter nurse." FOUB?
(I've never even bitten a newbie!)

Lol I considered putting "biter" instead of "bitter" because that was how the Snowflake spelled it in the post I saw, but I figured that would just result in a rash of Spelling Nazis pointing out my grievous "error".

And that would make me want to bite. ðŸ˜ˆ