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I worked for awhile with a nurse that emigrated from Finland. She was always checking up on what the other nurses on the unit were doing and comparing her work loads to the others. As a result she was always behind in her work and trying to get the other nurses to pickup part of her caseload.
When I would bring up how she was always putting herself behind, she would say that in Finland the workloads would be apportioned equally, that there would be a supervisor to insure this outcome, and she was just checking to make sure it was done that way here. No amount of argument could pursuade her that this was futile and a waste of her time.
It was exasperating working with this person, as she spent so much time nonproductively. I eventually moved to another unit to save my sanity.