{"id":21728,"date":"2025-12-21T05:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=21728"},"modified":"2025-12-21T05:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:23:40","slug":"excluded-from-team-lunches-birthdays-medical-social-worker-alleges-workplace-bullying-by-supervisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=21728","title":{"rendered":"Excluded from team lunches, birthdays: Medical social worker alleges workplace bullying by supervisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Her line manager excluded her from team lunches, planned birthday celebrations for everyone on the team except her, and even bought snacks from Bangkok for everyone but her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">These are the claims being made by a medical social worker, as her TikTok post about alleged workplace bullying went viral, with many commenters offering support and advice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">@steaks.andbones <span><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@steaks.andbones\/photo\/7583688194386971912?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" target=\"_blank\">shared her experiences in a Dec 15 TikTok post titled &#8220;bullying by isolation in a healthcare setting<\/a><\/span>&#8220;. In the caption, she said that these incidents occurred after she shared<span><b> <\/b><\/span>that she did not feel supported by her supervisor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">She alleged that the team lead, following a trip to Bangkok, bought snacks for everyone on the team except her. In another instance, the supervisor personally called other colleagues out for lunch, excluding the TikToker even though she was seated at her desk at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">The social worker, who has an eating disorder, also claimed the team lead planned birthday celebrations with other co-workers without her knowledge, even telling the birthday girl that the team had &#8220;discussed and decided&#8221; on a gift together.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-[-8px] mt-lg font-primary text-22 font-bold leading-1.5\">Left out of scrubs order<\/h3>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">She added that she had been on hospitalisation leave and didn&#8217;t check her email when the team was ordering scrubs. &#8220;Admin asked for team\/ team leads to help absent members order. My team lead didn&#8217;t and now I don&#8217;t have scrubs,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;When the scrubs came, my team lead engaged everyone in an excited conversation about the scrubs in front of me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">A separate post on Dec 17 said that <span><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@steaks.andbones\/photo\/7584822665286995208?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;web_id=7503766978081146389\" target=\"_blank\">her supervisor also told her: &#8220;If you have to ask for help, it shows us that you&#8217;re not coping mentally.<\/a><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;I was accused of having no presence, no accountability, and not being a team player,&#8221; she said, leading to multiple instances of burnout.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-[-8px] mt-lg font-primary text-22 font-bold leading-1.5\">&#8216;Super common yet unaddressed&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">The TikToker did not reveal her workplace, nor did she elaborate on when the incidents cited took place or how long the alleged bullying had been going on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Her initial post garnered over 514,200 views and 19,200 likes, as netizens chimed in. Many commenters defended the social worker, suggesting that she leave the workplace or escalate the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Others advised her to cut ties, with one saying that the &#8220;key to surviving a toxic workplace is indifference&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;Favouritism, bias, and nepotism in healthcare, super common yet unaddressed,&#8221; said one netizen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Another described these experiences as &#8220;signs of quiet firing&#8221;, saying that they had witnessed similar cases in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;I seriously don&#8217;t understand how adults in professional settings bullying [sic] like little kids. You don&#8217;t like someone, fine you don&#8217;t have to be [sic] but please be mature about it,&#8221; a user remarked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Stomp has reached out to steaks.andbones for comment.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"border-t border-primary-200 mt-xl mb-md\"\/>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-md py-md xl:flex-row xl:items-center\"><span class=\"font-primary text-18 font-semibold leading-1.2 text-black\">Get more of Stomp&#8217;s latest updates by following us on:<\/span><\/div>\n<hr class=\"border-t border-primary-200 mt-xl mb-md\"\/>\n<p>Join the conversation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stomp.sg\/trending-now\/exclusion-team-lunches-birthdays-medical-social-worker-alleges-workplace-bullying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her line manager excluded her from team lunches, planned birthday celebrations for everyone on the team except her, and even bought snacks from Bangkok for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}