does the new employee eventually stop being the one given the most tasks?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨vestmoria@linux.community⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

context: I’m a nurse with several years of job experience in several units.

I’ve always seen that in each unit there is a group who somehow are the ‘alphas’ in the unit and can make your life hell if you cross any of them, the kind of people a careerist would give attention and flatter if he wanted to climb the job ladder. I’m calling them alphas not because they’re the best academically, but the best organized with the best contacts, the ones who due to these contacts get to decide who gets promoted (friends) or ignored. And management trusts them because they keep shit working.

Where I am now this on practice means they get to enjoy a one hour pause while I do a 30 minute one.

I guess some of you would tell me now to pick my battles, not to be jealous, to do my job and go home and accept I’m employed… but it’s not a nice feeling. This has happened in every workplace I’ve been. People are tribal, sadly. This is also why I’m leaving the bedside, but people are tribal everywhere, so I’m sure I’m gonna find this everywhere I go, right?

It’s sad if I want to escape this I have to feed attention to people, to fake being something else, or have you found a better way?

As said in other posts, I’m an introverted so this would be another reason to find a job where I work alone?

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NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yes, when there’s a new new guy.

Common practice in most workplaces is to continue the cycle. But, if you want to build influence, you don’t do that. When the next new guy comes along, you adopt them, you show them how to get things done, and when other people dump shit on them you help clean it up. You don’t do their work for them, but you also don’t leave them to do the work alone.

And you teach them to do the same thing with the next new guy. When they’re up to speed you start load balancing with each other intentionally. Maybe you’re still shoveling shit, but you’re not doing it alone. If you don’t have a tribe, build one.

And then break the cycle.

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- __siru__@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This sounds like the handbook to CIA infiltration and subversion! Bet yes, this would help build a better work culture at this particular workspace.
  
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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
There’s a saying that if you encounter an asshole during your day, congratulations, you met an asshole. If EVERYONE you encounter is an asshole, then it may be that YOU are the asshole.

You’ve been complaining about every ward you’ve worked in over the past few years. And it’s always about people not treating you fairly. I don’t know anything, so I don’t know if this applies or not, but sometimes it may seem like you’re doing all the work when you don’t fully realize what everyone else has to do, and there may be a chance that your “completely professional tone” isn’t hiding your contempt for other’s as much as you might think.

Just maybe something to think about.

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wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Having heard enough tales from my sister, Nurses are particularly bad in this regard. I think it’s partly because seniority is so heavily related to how long they’ve been putting up with this shit. It’s not the best leaders that become senior. It’s the people with the most battle scars.

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Smeagol666@crazypeople.online ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
One place I worked at was my 3rd or 4th print shop. Years ago, to save money on production costs, we would have to “gum the plates”. This involved cleaning and then “gumming” sets of used plates so they could be reused later. Once while at the plated gumming station I was gumming a set of six plates we had used to print a 6-color job. I was a helper on the six-color, but two color presses only had one man crews. One guy pipes up and tells me: “Hey, new guys have to gum all our plates.”

“Yeah? Bite me!”

“No, really!” this dickhead said.

“No, really!” I answered while grabbing my crotch in the universal gesture of disrespect.

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Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

they get to enjoy a one hour pause while I do a 30 minute one.

Is that all?

The whole post about that problem, and as soon as the pause problem is solved, then your life is good again?

Just trying to confirm.

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- vestmoria@linux.community ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  yes
  
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  - Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Then one possible solution for you is to just get over it.
    
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blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m confused as to why you are confused. What you are describing sounds like a very normal workplace - new people get the boring and unpleasant menial tasks, while veterans take the more complex, interesting ones. New workers work harder in terms of effort or hours, veterans work by having experience for difficult situations and emergencies. How much skill you have doens’t matter as much as how you are able to gain others’ trust.

You say you are introverted. What this usually actually means is “I have social anxiety and don’t trust others.” And of course, if you don’t trust others and assume that they are nice people who want the best for you, then you will give off a bad vibe, and people will feel uneasy and distant from you. Thus, you will never gain their trust, which means they won’t trust you to take on more complex tasks (or at least, their trust will build slower) and you will stay at the bottom of the totem pole for longer. Stay in this job long enough, and you will likely notice younger, less experienced people zooming past you in terms of career growth. Why? Because they trust that the work they are doing is all part of the process of improving, they know what they want and work towards getting it, and they assume everyone around them is a nice person who wants to help them acheive their goals (until proven otherwise); rather than focusing on how X, Y, and Z are “unfair”.

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IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
There is a saying about nurses, they eat thier young.

Build your own circle in your ward, trust me there will be enough folks on the “outside of the power click that things will work.

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ultranaut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I would guess there’s others at work who feel like you do about the alphas and the power structure. Perhaps gathering allies would be a helpful first step. Since the alphas keep things running and management obviously values them you should tread carefully.l though. If you can get viewed by management as someone who gets things done and knows what’s up they might be more open to changes you suggest, especially if you have a bunch of unhappy coworkers supporting those changes.

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