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does the new employee eventually stop being the one given the most tasks? (linux.community)

submitted 1 week ago by vestmoria@linux.community to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/3415577

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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[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You aren't going to find that in every industry/career. Not sure what other advice I can give, but if I was in that situation I'd be looking for a career/field that uses a similar set of skills but has a better culture.

[–] vestmoria@linux.community 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

are you sure you didn't mean to say 'you are'?

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Yes.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

There are always going to be co-workers who don't want to work and they'll spend more time getting someone else to complete the task then it would take to just do it themselves.

Either learn to play the game or get a different position. The managers usually don't care, because their job is to satisfy their bosses, not create an equitable shop.