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Also see: Baloney. Kind of like all people "back in the day" were "kind and dignified" and now every last one of us is "caustic and nasty" and ready to pick a fight in an elevator over perceived slights.
Not all of us......I'd prefer just to ignore the person and the rude remark.
Well I was drinking some water out of my pogo bottle and I heard the nurse say "I don't know how anyone drinks out of those bottles they harbor such nasty things like mold , slime , all kinds of germs " and the receptionist or lab lady started giggling and I turned around and she stopped giggling . Have any of you run into such highly opinionated people like this in the medical field ?
Yes. Some nurses think they are the only ones who know what "germs" are and they also believe it takes advanced medical knowledge to understand that. Well, I've had biology and microbiology in college; I know what germs are; and I also know that they are everywhere.
I also used to have a friend who was an RN but she was such a know-it-all that I couldn't talk to her anymore. Anytime someone brought up a health issue, she'd chime in with her "expertise". She said she was smarter than the doctors she worked with, too. She would complain that people were jealous of how smart she was, and she would complain about guys not wanting to date her, gosh, I wonder why? Could have been her rotten personality.
Not all of us......I'd prefer just to ignore the person and the rude remark.
And that's your preference. But it's also perfectly okay to tell the person to mind their own business. I stopped ignoring nasty behavior a long time ago, and calling the person out on it. It's totally worth it to see their face turn red or hear them start sputtering.
She was making a snarky comment to the women who then giggled. Really, has anybody gotten sick from drinking out of a bottle? I don't wash mine with soap every day and I'm just fine. The nurse was a know-it-all jerk. There is no way I would take what she said as advice. It was said with a critical tone.
The nurse (don't know if she was one), was way out of line. Talking about someone while they are standing right there in front of you? What a bitchy, nasty piece of work.
And that's your preference. But it's also perfectly okay to tell the person to mind their own business. I stopped ignoring nasty behavior a long time ago, and calling the person out on it. It's totally worth it to see their face turn red or hear them start sputtering.
Well, I guess that is where we differ. As an adult, I have absolutely no interest in a total's stranger's reaction to a fancied back atcha comment to an uncalled one that stranger made, I'd prefer to give that stranger and his/her/its comment the attention they deserve, IMO, none. I guess I would just prefer not to lower myself to the level of a person who apparently finds it entertaining to put others down in public. If that is what it takes to make such a person feel superior to others, that's their problem, I certainly don't need to waste my time engaging with that type of behavior.
She sounds like she had a bad day and needed something trivial to snark about. You just happened to show up while she was looking for a subject matter.
She's right though, and as a nurse, it's good that she knows this information. Re-using those bottles with built-in half-straws that can't be removed or replaced is gross. I got one as a "bonus" reward at work. Used it twice, then wondered what the smell was coming from the bottle. Turned out I wasn't able to clean that straw part completely and it'd built up the bacteria from the backwash (if you don't think YOUR sipping creates backwash, you're wrong). I was smelling bacteria from week-old spit. Threw the thing away.
As for the wording of her comment, I agree it was rude. For the same reason as my story: I didn't know it'd do that, til I experienced it. For all she knew, she could've been snarking about someone in the same situation I was in right before I discovered it for myself. She was right, but she was being rude about it.
Thankfully she wasn't on-duty commenting about one of her patients. So no harm done other than a little ego bruising on your part. It's unfortunate but there are people who snark. You have to just learn to let it slide.
She sounds like she had a bad day and needed something trivial to snark about. You just happened to show up while she was looking for a subject matter.
She's right though, and as a nurse, it's good that she knows this information. Re-using those bottles with built-in half-straws that can't be removed or replaced is gross. I got one as a "bonus" reward at work. Used it twice, then wondered what the smell was coming from the bottle. Turned out I wasn't able to clean that straw part completely and it'd built up the bacteria from the backwash (if you don't think YOUR sipping creates backwash, you're wrong). I was smelling bacteria from week-old spit. Threw the thing away.
As for the wording of her comment, I agree it was rude. For the same reason as my story: I didn't know it'd do that, til I experienced it. For all she knew, she could've been snarking about someone in the same situation I was in right before I discovered it for myself. She was right, but she was being rude about it.
Thankfully she wasn't on-duty commenting about one of her patients. So no harm done other than a little ego bruising on your part. It's unfortunate but there are people who snark. You have to just learn to let it slide.
Same with those "camel" water backpacks with the long tube; YUCK.
I do reuse regular water bottles with a cap in order to help save the planet from them, but not forever, and I'm able to clean those better.
Not sure why we all think we need to carry around water with us at all times throughout our daily lives anyway (think of all the years people DIDN'T do that and somehow survived). The bottled water people did a great job of brainwashing consumers there but, then, consumers are pretty gullible.
Not sure why we all think we need to carry around water with us at all times throughout our daily lives anyway (think of all the years people DIDN'T do that and somehow survived). The bottled water people did a great job of brainwashing consumers there but, then, consumers are pretty gullible.
+1
When I take my powerwalks on the trail in the nearby state park, I take a big swig of water before I begin, and then I rehydrate myself when I return to my car 45-75 minutes later. Somehow, I am able to survive the trek without having to bring water with me on that walk.
I got a few chuckles last summer at the sight of a heavy-set woman walking the same trail while lugging a 1 gallon jug of water.
In the time that it took me to walk ~3.5 miles (sans water), she apparently covered ~1/2 mile before returning to her car.
If she hadn't been lugging that 1 gallon jug of water, it is just possible that she might have been able to walk further than 1/2 mile.
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