So I (24M) used to work for a skilled nursing facility (Snf). Basically an old folks home but with people who are sick or need medical assistance. There I worked as a Nursing assistant (cna) or someone who assists the nurse in caring for the patient (changing them, repositioning, feeding, ambulation, ect.) Anyways as is usual in these places we are way over ratio and understaffed, each cna would typically have 15-19 patients and many incontinent. As you could imagine this is neither safe nor sanitary. With this many patients, it should be that the charge nurse would evenly split up the patients with the cna's so that we all would have relatively equal patients. Unfortunately, this was not the case.
In the facility there was alot of workers from one particular ethnicity (I will not specify which one) and they would always stick together. They were a tight knit group and would always hang out together outside of work. They would still help other workers out but put others in their group first.
The charge nurse (who was part of this group) would give the responsibility of assigning patients to a cna who is of course someone else of this group. From there they would assign less patients (usually 2 or so) to themselves and the rest of us were given more. Now there was about 5 or 6 CNA's each night and 2 would be not from their group, So it would add up quickly on top of the usual 15-19 mentioned earlier.
Many of us tried to complain to management but the woman in charge of our department (D.O.N. OR DIRECTOR OF NURSING) was also part of their group. We went higher up to the director of the facility but he said our claims were being over dramatic and assured us that he looked into it and everything seemed as though our claims were baseless. He also added a few mandatory "tolerance" seminars which I assume were directed at us who complained.
On top of this, when time came for our yearly evaluation people not in the group got a minimum raise (25 cents) while those who were got an average of 75 cents for our title (CNA'S). I found out because I was friends with people in that group.
After a year I became very close with a patient and left the facility to work for him. He paid me much more and got more benefits. I felt bad about leaving my friends (both people in the group and not), but I could not take it anymore. Sadly I was basically ghosted by all my "friends" there for leaving them, especially since we were already very short staffed.
It wasn't that everyone in that particular ethnicity group had the mentality of only helping their own and screwing everyone else. It was just that some people took advantage of the system and those who didn't follow the rules would be punished too.