Bossy woman at work - bullying

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I’m a HCA on a hospital ward. Early this year a student nurse joined the ward and she was bossy as hell, ordered all the HCAs and patients around and even tried to boss the qualified nurses around. She continuously wrote incident reports/Datix about people and tried to change various aspects of the way the ward was run. She was a 2nd year. She drove us all mad and one of the other HCAs complained about her in the end to the charge nurse. Charge nurse had a word with her and she promptly reported charge nurse and the HCA to HR. She was an absolute nightmare.
Anyway, her placement finished thankfully and she left. However she has now returned as a HCA!!! She immediately tried to boss everyone around again as soon as she came back and one of the HCAs snapped at her and said “you bossed me around as a student, you’re not bossing me around as a HCA”. Naturally she immediately reported her.

Since then charge nurse has spoken to everyone saying the situation is difficult but we just have to learn to get along with her as she technically isn’t doing anything wrong. One of the male nurses pointed out that she looks like Sid from Ice Age and this has become her nickname. I was bullied as a child and I’m uncomfortable with this. I have spoken to charge nurse who snapped at me and said she’s sick to death of complaints both from and about this woman.
For Christmas one of the nurses bought her a mug with Sid on it. She doesn’t know this is her nickname so she’s proudly using it every day at work and doesn’t appear to have noticed the sniggering etc.

The whole thing is driving me mad!! If I tell her all hell with break loose. If I don’t I feel guilty and on edge.

AIBU to turn a blind eye and tell myself she kind of brought it on herself? It’s making me want to leave my job.

Typical NHS poor people management. The 7 & 6s should be ashamed of themselves. And the 7 would have been on the interview panel for her HCA post surely? Why on earth was she given the job?!

You need to stay out of it all. Forget the mug, it’s not your problem. Don’t join in the bitching. When she puts you down or criticises you stay very calm, polite but firm. Remind her that it’s unprofessional to criticise colleagues in front of patients and remind her that she’s not your boss.

The mug and name calling is very unprofessional and childish. I worked with a bossy boots who thought she ran the ward and was forever telling people what to do, she got a lot of peoples backs up. Its weak management and supervision that allows this to happen and their preference for a quiet life rather than encouraging team work and making sure everyone knows their responsibilities.

If this gets into the newspapers then that mug will immediately identify her.

The bullying is a staff nurse saying she looks like Sid, someone buying the mug and staff thinking that is acceptable.

This makes for uncomfortable reading. I keep thinking about that nurse if she was to read this thread ( or indeed see it in the newspapers) and realise it was her being talked about, regardless of her ways.

This could escalate big time.

OP is it wise to keep this thread running?

Unless Sid is a pseudonym for another mug character

Orderagain, you are right, it sounds a awful place to work and the staff who are laughing and bitching about her are in no position to criticse her behaviour.

You're all just as bad as each other.