I’ve worked for 2 large healthcare organizations since graduating college, and both of them, at the entry, associate and director level are full of WEIRDOS who lack self awareness and have no communication or social skills.
Maybe it’s because I’m working for non profit hospitals that are less corporate-y and more social justice warrior type, but my current team is made up of immigrant people of color that all seem to have some sort of mental health issues. I am an immigrant myself, and the youngest on the team by 5 years; but I have been in the US since I was 1 while my other coworkers seem to be fobs.
The biggest thing I’ve noticed is the constant ass licking of our white bosses. One of my Asian coworkers literally said “my mom calls me a banana because I’m yellow on the outside and white on the inside” in our group chat and is always desperately trying to Americanize himself by constantly talking about American sports and talking down on his own culture. This is a grown ass man in his 40s. It’s so sad to see. My Nigerian coworker, who is literally offline 90% of the day now that our boss is on maternity leave, literally said during one of our meetings “there’s no way [white boss] could have made a mistake. She’s perfect and looks very deeply into her work before she shares it”. This is also a grown woman in her 40s bootlicking our boss when she’s NOT EVEN HERE. Another coworker passive aggressively leaves every single group chat… even when it’s regarding something that requires his assistance, or one of those recurring meeting group chats.
These people have no sense of team work or communication skills and have weak personalities. They say absolutely nothing in meetings, don’t reach out to communicate work plans, and I have no idea what’s wrong with them but it’s making it difficult to get my work done when they seem like they don’t want to be bothered with WORK RELATED QUESTIONS. Our job literally requires reaching out to people all over the organization, and these people are so introverted, socially awkward etc that I have no idea how they get anything done. Sometimes it seems like they’re doing it on purpose so they don’t get asked to work? Or they are scared of anyone more extroverted or with a higher job title? It’s literally SO strange and leads to a lot of errors in our work. They also all sound extremely irritated when asked a question, like they lack emotional intelligence. They will be sweet as pie talking to anyone with a higher job title, though.