I work in healthcare, and took a job in January doing a similar but more critical line of work for 20k/yr more than what I was doing as staff in a hospital.
It took a grand total of 2 weeks for the educator (the person responsible for training new people) to show her true self: bullying, gaslighting, and toxic.
I thought I was doing well during my orientation, none of my preceptors (people who show you the ropes) had told me anything bad to my face. Suddenly, I get a call from the educator on a Thursday. She says I'm “falling behind, getting concepts but failing to implement them, you put him in [a mode that silences alarms which all the veterans of the company do] and put the patient in danger, you don't tend to the alarms, and we're going to have to reassess your status from full time to PRN.”
When I told the educator about a veteran who puts patients in this mode and who taught me how to do it, she proceeded to tell me “[Veteran] is an experienced specialist and has her way of doing things.” That right there showed favoritism, as everyone should be doing things the same regardless of status. I talked to a few more veterans, and they verified that I was doing well, with the tidbit of “[Educator] likes to harass new people.”
I call up the chain to their boss, and explain the situation. Jump to a meeting that following Wednesday, where the educator not only denies saying most of what I heard (awful specific for me to make it up, no?), not only says “I don't trust anyone who works here except [Veteran]. You have to earn my trust.”, but also says “You didn't have to escalate it the way you did. Noone here is out to get you, and your preceptors aren't spies.” Keep in mind, I have only been actively doing the job for 2-3 weeks at that point, and nothing would have happened if she hadn't made the phone call. The meeting ended with a write up.
Not once did I think of my preceptors like this, I always treat them as teachers and friends. Right then and there, I started looking for a new job.
Which was a fantastic idea, because the educator wanted to call another meeting and write me up again. I quit before I could get fired and blacklisted.
Now I'm about to start a travel contract and make 3k more per month than what I was doing at that job. I also called HR and told them my side of the story. It might not go anywhere, but with a report another former employee already on record (plus mine), hopefully it helps.