Being burned out doesn't mean being catty, intentionally spreading false rumors, forming impenetrable cliques, and just being rude and talking behind each others backs.

I get it, nurses are over worked and under paid. But so are a ton of other professions and they dont have this same problem.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Eh, being burned out means exactly (most of) that. Especially being rude is a huge sign of being burned out, because you just can't muster the energy to be positive, because everything about your work pisses you off, including your coworkers, customers, bosses and the work itself.

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

There is a difference between "I'm frustrated with work so I will be short with people" and "I am going to systematically create a rumor that one of the IT guys is actually bi" or "10 of us are going to gang up on a new nurse and bully her until she leaves crying".

Those are some of the worst examples but little petty stuff happened all the time. But it was even little things like every time a nurse would walk away the other nurses would talk about how they're putting on weight or being a bad mom or some other nonsense.

I don't know, like I said this is anecdotal stories. But I've worked a lot of places in a lot of industries and nurses aren't the only ones who are overworked, underpaid, and burnt out. But they are overwhelmingly the ones who act the meanest.