Every few months, I see discourse about the “mean girl to nurse pipeline,” the stereotype that claims most high school mean girls wind up working as nurses.
I can’t tell you why this phenomenon exists, but I can tell you right off the bat that there are a number of mean, rude people in all kinds of jobs – it’s definitely not exclusive to nursing.
In one Reddit thread (which you can see here), people shared the careers of the most ill-mannered folks they know, and I’m honestly living for this drama.
Here’s what 18 people said:
1.
“Oddly enough, HR. I think she just likes controlling people and seeing the last glimmer of hope flicker out of someone’s eyes.”
2.
“Entrepreneur. Which makes sense – having a boss is hard when you’re difficult to work with.”
4.
“Librarian. Thought it’d mean more maturity and emotional intelligence on his part. In reality, it just meant he left my life in a very cinematic way that I’m sure would make for a great book.”
5.
“My sister (who I love more than life and would die for) is the world’s biggest asshole. She’s a radiology technologist.”
6.
“Hands down, real estate agent. And like… not the chill, helpful kind. I’m talking full, I’m better than you because I sell condos with rooftop pools, energy. Always interrupting people, always name-dropping, and somehow every convo turns into a humblebrag about commissions.”
7.
“While I don’t think as a whole, therapists are the worst, they have some real bad actors in the field. I’ve been a psychotherapist for 16 years, almost 2 years from being a licensed psychologist, and it never ceases to amaze me how absolutely out of touch they can be at times.
8.
“It’s funny how the rudest person I know works in customer service. You’d think they’d be better at handling people!”
9.
“As a nurse myself, I can say that some of the most hateful, cruel, self-absorbed people I have ever met have been nurses. Some are kind and mean well but have no fucking clue what they’re doing.”
10.
“He’s unemployed, can’t hold a job for longer than a year or two ‘because of his coworkers.'”
11.
“Archaeologist. He’s super rude, has a big ego, and a problem with women in the same profession (I’m not one, but my friend is and she has to put up with him daily. I only see him sometimes and dread having to talk to him.)”
12.
Works for non-profit organizations in management. Made me realize the people who try the hardest to seem good are often compensating for actually being assholes.”
13.
“As a journalist, journalism. So many people in those newsrooms are pretentious and condescending about the people they report on behind closed doors. Many microaggressions, too, as a Black person.”
14.
“She works as an admin at an HVAC company. You’d think she ran the whole business. Their household got audited by the IRS, so I wouldn’t want her managing any financing at a company-owned property. I reckon that wasn’t on her resume.”
15.
“Property manager. Pretty sure she pictures the property like her dollhouse and all the tenants as her dolls. Gets in everyone’s business and makes up rules on the spot about what people can do in their own homes. Most judgmental person I ever met too.”
16.
“Surgeon. I work in a nursing home and had a retired cardiac surgeon as a patient. I could give so many examples of his assholery, but one really shines.”
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And finally, “Lawyer, he’s outlandish, too. I don’t blame him for that part, though; I blame the environment he had at home. From what I’ve seen, the less intelligent power-hungry psychos become cops and the more intelligent power-hungry psychos become lawyers.”
What do you think? Let me know in the comments!