Can Someone Please Explain Please?

Hello everyone, I really hope you are all well and doing fine.

Okay. I have been posting threads about my work. I have had issues with work especially since I started my job a year ago. It's mainly been with my colleagues.

For quite a while, I have always wondered as to why my colleagues had such major issues with me and the way that I work. You see, yesterday I sat down with one of my colleagues P. She opened up to me about some of the issues that my other colleagues have with me. You see all my colleagues are two faced. They all talk bad about each other but to their faces, they are nice as pie. When one particular member of staff has made tons of mistakes, they write it down in the book highlighting to other people. But when they make a mistake, they correct it for the colleagues they get on well with without letting other people know. So they can cover each other's back. There are six of us. The manager has been working there for over 15 years. The other two have been working there for 11 years. The last 3 (including me) have been working there for approx a year.

So anyway my colleague P yesterday told me their issues with me. Because two colleagues have been working there for over 11 years. They have worked a certain way where they are used to it. A certain way of how they act or treat the residents. They have used tactics that have included abuse. Like not giving their medication unless they hoover the stairs. Especially when that person has been feeling ill. Or locking someone out of their room just so they could interact with other people. Yet this person wants to be in their room. Or not allowing someone to eat unless they enter a meeting. Or forcing someone to go out just so on paperwork it looks good.

So anyway since I have started the job, I have worked a different way. I work a way where I am comfortable with it. I use my own methods where it doesn't involve abuse. Instead I work for the residents. I work by my own beliefs. So I am working differently from my other colleagues. P told me when you start a job, you have to work the same as others. You have to use and work the same way as everybody else. But I disagree because I feel people have different beliefs and have everybody has their own way of working. We were not made to be clones. Because I work differently, these two particular colleagues see it as they have worked there for years. Here I come, working differently. They see me as a threat and do not like the way I work. These words were spoken from P's mouth. Basically I am told that If I continue to work this way, I am sticking out like a sore thumb and not in a team. P said, she noticed I like working by the book.

I have three questions to ask because to be honest, I am incredibly confused.

1) Why would my colleagues feel threatened if I am working my own way? I am still aiming to get my work done just like everybody else. Why would anyone feel threatened by that?

2) What does working by the book mean?

3) Why now, why is this particular colleague telling me these things?

May I also add. I have made it clear to P that I do not care as to whether people do not like me or the way that I work. Because I am who I am. Therefore I can't change!

I have documented everything that has happened since I started the job. I have tons and tons of reports which my mum encouraged me to do when I first encountered trouble at this current job. I know high management are coming in regularly doing inspections because they are not happy with the support and care the residents are getting. Like not amount of time is being spent with residents. Residents are being told to go out without being asked as to whether they want too.

I am looking into leaving my current job. I am currently looking into completing my NVQ Level 3 and then looking for another job.

Last weekend I was told that I was blowing things out of preportion over one of the residents. This particular resident has been suffering with gum pain for quite a while now. I am not their Key Worker because the key worker is suppose to sort out their appointments etc. All I can do is report things to their key worker. A few months ago, this resident had a huge hole in his tooth. Most of the tooth had gone only some was still there. I left a message asking for his key worker to support him with making an appointment with a dentist. This resident is not registered with a dentist. Two weeks later, I noticed the whole tooth had come out. I asked the resident what happened. He said the tooth had slowly dissolved. His key worker's solution was to buy a toothbrush and toothpaste for the resident. No appointments were made and the key worker still has not filled out a registeration application form for the resident.

Last weekend, the resident requested for paracetamols for having tooth/gum pain. That night, he hardly had any sleep due to the pain. I phoned up the GP emergency number to get some advice. I was told they wanted to speak to the resident and not me. I was given no advice - nothing. That same morning, I checked on the reisdent and noticed there was sick on his bedroom floor. He had been sick whilst being awake most of the night. I phoned the GP again because I needed advice especially as the resident had been sick. The resident was fine. Showed no signs of illness. But the nurse I spoke too gave me really great advice. She advised me to leave a message for the key worker to take him to see a dentist a.s.a.p especially by the time he gets registered.

When the next staff came in, this same woman who sat down with me and told me about the other staff's issues with me. Bascally told me, I was blowing things out of preportion because I had phoned up the emergency GP for advice. Especially as the resident only had tooth pain and just needs to see a dentist. But as I pointed out to her, the resident was also sick. That could have been a symptom of something.

The nurse also said she was going to send his current gp information. Why?

Document everything. Secretly. When you have had enough or get fired, take this to the authorities. People do not deserve to be abused like this. Document every detail, dates, times, persons involved by full name, specific descriptions, witnesses. Talk to a lawyer. Take this to the appropriate authorities.