My entire life I have only worked in either food or retail mainly because I didn't know what to do with my life and because I needed work experience. I figured out months ago I have a desire and passion to become a medical assistant and decided to move on from a job I liked. I loved my coworkers at a coffee shop I was working at but when we got a new boss before Christmas he decided he didn't like me for whatever reason. He couldn't find fault with my work so he decided to attack me as a person many times so I left back in late March for a job in the medical field. It's a blessing because there was a mass exodus after I left because others were getting heavily mistreated too. I was really excited and happy because I thought wonderful this will net me some healthcare experience as I try to get the money together to find out how to enroll in classes to reach my goal. The job is doing laundry at a nursing home. My first week was orientation and things went fine until my second week where another new girl was bullying me out of nowhere. She ripped apart my folding, she snatched a blanket out of my hands once or I should say she tried to but I sat the blanket down in the cart and said I was going to go work in the back and she can continue to fold. I walked away because I had reached my limit and wanted to cry and I didn't want to be near her anymore. The next day she comes in and begins talking badly about me twisting what happened to other coworkers and I had enough marched into my bosses office and let it rip. I got my shift changed to avoid her and I believe she wound up being written up. I was really upset because I was only given a single day of training back there and was doing the best with what I was given.
Ok I thought things were going fine for awhile after that. My third week in the woman who trained me was not really showing up much she kept calling off so I got stuck filling in delivering the briefs. I didn't mind filling in that one time but I didn't realize what was coming down the line for me. Before I get into that let me explain how it works in laundry at the nursing home I am at. There are two sides personals and regular laundry. In personals you tag, hang and deliver clothes to residents and the briefs. In regular laundry which is what I was specifically hired for you sort, wash and fold and deliver the linen carts. End of april the woman who trained me was fired I think for attendance issues and I was blindsided by that when I came in the next day. Lo and behold I am now stuck doing her job on top of mine. I was never asked and was shown quickly how to do briefs the one time I was stuck doing it. Now doing the briefs takes hours and if nobody else is doing laundry on my side it backs up bad which stresses me out and I'm scrambling the rest of my shift to catch up.
Last saturday I kind of lost it on the lady I'm doing briefs with. To sum her up everything must be done her way, she's domineering and will snitch on anyone and throw anyone under the bus. I saw another coworker get written up for something she did. She's been snippy with me before but this was too much for me at the time. I'm still new to briefs I don;t know the residents like she does. I get confused who is in bed one or bed two and I mix it up sometimes. I accidentally marked the sheet wrong and she got mad at me. It doesn't help that whenever I need to see the clipboard for what briefs a room takes she's always holding it carrying it with her. I didn't realize this one lady had a brief and a pullup and forgot to stock the brief. I was going back to fix it when she came into the room I was in and was giving me a hard time about it. Have you been marking them wrong the entire time? Have you been not stocking right? If the boss checks and you didn't do it right you'll be in trouble. I told her I get confused sometimes but I was trying to fix it. I said in frustration this is why I don't want to do the briefs I never asked for this role. I suggested someone should be hired to take the role and she was like not going to happen this is your job now. I said that this isn't fair to me that I've been here a month and have barely had anytime to master my own role let alone absorb the duties of someone who was fired and to consider how I am feeling.
Other things she did that upset me too was she kept coming into the rooms I was doing and double checking me and hitting me with the you need to double check, you need to stock up, you'll get in trouble etc.... I was supposed to be doing the even rooms and she the odd rooms but she kept messing that up and kept going to do my rooms and I got displaced and did hers but when I did a few of hers she was like you are supposed to do evens. One court in the nursing home is for rehab so that is constantly changing with residents coming and going. There are new people who arrive and sometimes we need to ask nurses or cna's what briefs they take and what size. Now I take initiative and ask for my own assigned rooms if I don't know but she kept making me go up there to ask repeatedly for her rooms about briefs. I felt like a personal servant and I was annoyed.
I was already feeling a certain kind of way before all this went down about working here but now I wake up and dread going in. I've cried a few times prior to this crap going down because of crappy comments towards me from the others. A lot of these people especially on the personals side are older like 45+ and I am late 20s. One lady is pretty cool and I like the guy around my age on my side but it's a viper pit. Everyone secretly hates each other, everyone gossips and talks crap about one another. Snitchery is rampant in the entire building not just this department. People are always watching you and reporting on everyone. I can't even talk to my boss really because she's friends with these damn people. I honestly quit trying to be friendly at this point I have shut down and don't really speak unless spoken to. One lady keeps trying to ask me what's wrong and I always tell her I'm just tired. I'm not saying anything that will make my life harder than it already is here. Going to another department isn't any better because apparently that;s just how it is around here. The guy near my age told me he came from dietary and it was bad there for the same reasons.
I'm really disappointed because I really wanted this job to work out until I could get schooling going. I am considering going back to food but am hesitant because I've done that my entire life and feel I would be taking a step backwards. I will feel like a failure because this has happened before when I have left food to try and do better for myself. I left to work at a dealership once as a porter and was treated like crap there to the point I quit and went back to food. If I go back to food or even retail I will just prove to myself what I've thought all along that how dare I think I can rise above food how dare I not know my place and that I am a failure.
I'm at a crossroads here and don't k now what to do anymore and I'm afraid that trying to find a new job after only being here a month will make me look bad.