Not questioning that it happens, it's just very foreign to me because my field of work has given me a broad and deep view into the social and administrative functioning of hospitals and the usual consensus is that there is simply no time to be particularly machiavellian towards each other because doing so would end with everyone fucking drowning.
Figuratively speaking.
In three of seven places that is a deliberate choice by the administration and in the rest it's just a matter of being continually understaffed to the point of denying people overtime pay under the pretense that not getting their work done is their fault.
Which itself is a symptom of the larger landscape in my country, but that's an entirely different discussion.
