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Jul 2022
10:26am, 25 Jul 2022
23,609 posts
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Ness
Missed a couple of posts. Yes. Bullying!
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Jul 2022
10:28am, 25 Jul 2022
59,002 posts
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Velociraptor
A bit of me is also thinking, "I wasn't really all that good, I got 36 years without being struck off, let's get out while I'm ahead." But I suspect that's the "you're never good enough" culture of the NHS talking too.
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Jul 2022
10:30am, 25 Jul 2022
43,064 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
One weekend, two pals retiring! Argh, I guess I've got to that age. One is a bit older than me, 34 years worked, for a big utility, will be a final salary. Also got money from both their parents dying. The other just through working for a few large corporates. Both have had health scares and the old, life is for living etc.
Another 10 years plus work ahead of me. Boo!  G
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Jul 2022
10:33am, 25 Jul 2022
23,610 posts
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Ness
It is indeed, Vrap. A toxic culture you're well away from!
I saw the way senior leadership of schools (and I mean schools plural. It wasn't just once!) Treated older teachers who were at the top of the pay scale. Questioning their competency when it was actually they were thinking, if I get rid of that older teacher I can get 2 newly qualified ones in their place.
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Jul 2022
10:56am, 25 Jul 2022
34,305 posts
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EvilPixie
Great news vrap and yes you were very much good enough it's the culture of some jobs
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Jul 2022
11:07am, 25 Jul 2022
2,543 posts
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Flatlander
Quite coincidentally given this morning's news about NHS staff shortages, one of my former colleagues contacted me this morning and jokingly asked me to go back to work in the hospital diagnostic laboratory because "all the staff are leaving and there is "hardly anyone left"". The staff leaving include the qualified scientists (BMSs) and assistants (MLAs), who are all extremely stressed by decreasing numbers of staff having to do ever increasing amounts of tests. We didn't have time to talk about the poor conditions of work.
Probably not to the same extent as V'rap, I still get irked by memories of the way I was treated by other staff, particularly by my long term boss, his actions pretty well amounting to bullying which sometimes was along the lines of me "not being good enough" (ironic since he is the incompetent boss I blogged about earlier this year whose major error might have led to the death of a neonate if that error hadn't been detected).
Staff bullying does appear to be prevalent in the NHS.
My answer to my former colleague's joke request was a firm "no".
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Jul 2022
11:08am, 25 Jul 2022
3,133 posts
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B Rubble
My mother worked for the NHS from 1951 up to the late 1990s. She was a senior nurse who had the audacity to stand up to her bosses in support of her nursing staff. The bullying she faced eventually made her retire before she really wanted to. Because she entered nursing as a teenager, despite passing all of the required nursing qualifications and having a huge amount of experience and knowledge, she frequently had to face people who regarded her as not being good enough.
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Jul 2022
11:14am, 25 Jul 2022
1,737 posts
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Steve NordRunner
I feel a bit similar, vrap, having spent most of a working life in energy generation (design) in one way or another, which is also topical. It is hard not to get angry but after a couple of years I have tried to disengage and think that I have done my bit and it is down to others now. However, this clashes with not wanting to go along with the idea of pensioners being disengaged with society generally. My provisional answer is to be fully engaged with the things I choose to do now, not what I was paid to do once.
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Jul 2022
11:16am, 25 Jul 2022
29,046 posts
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HellsBells
Settle in for the long haul V’rap - 4 years retired and some of the toxic stuff from years ago still wakes me at night
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Jul 2022
11:33am, 25 Jul 2022
25,620 posts
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TROSaracen
One of my old bosses was a proper old school workplace bully.
He surrounded himself with 3 types of people:
- those to bully, belittle and generally break down for his own gratification
- attractive women he would endlessly, and disgracefully flirt with/harass
- drinking buddies
Neither of the latter two had any obligation to produce actual work, as he tried to bully group 1 into doing it all.
Good thing was that he was forced out and as work and his ‘status’ there was his entire life I suspect (and hope) his post work years were abject misery.
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McGoohan