Work

<p>If you&#39;ve ever had the unfortunate experience of working in a toxic workplace, you know how degrading and dehumanizing it can be. Hopefully you&#39;re not working there anymore. But if you are, may you find a new job where you are treated like the brilliant and valuable person you are. And may you say &quot;hasta la vista, bebe!&quot; to your toxic boss or co-workers on the way out.</p><h2>Someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kr5li2/when_was_the_moment_you_realized_your_workplace/" target="_blank">asked</a> Reddit: &quot;When was the moment you realized your workplace was toxic?&quot; These 20 employees share their moments of reckoning:</h2><p>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/the-cschnepf/">the-cschnepf</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I had a job where my girlfriend&rsquo;s Mother was my boss, so I guess the moment I realized my workplace was toxic was when my girlfriend cheated on me and then my girlfriend&rsquo;s Mom hired the guy she cheated on me with. In hindsight, probably more than just the workplace was toxic</p> </blockquote><p>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thrown12212020/">thrown12212020</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>When our boss got into a screaming match with one of the managers (his daughter) in the middle of the office.</p> <p>I&#39;d just started there 3 weeks ago and it was absolutely mind boggling to watch. I looked around at my coworkers and everyone was just looking away, doing their best to stay quiet and not look at either of them. Person at the desk next to mine saw my shocked face and whispered &quot;they do this a lot. Just ignore it.&quot;</p> </blockquote><p>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Thirty_Helens_Agree/">Thirty_Helens_Agree</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>It wasn&rsquo;t always. I was fortunate to have a boss who took his role as a mentor very seriously. He wanted us to learn, improve, etc. and he was kind about it. He&rsquo;d reward good work, correct you when you made a mistake, yell at you/scold you only when you really deserved it, and would admit when HE made a mistake.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>He retired and left the company in the hands of a dude who was an absolute asshole. Completely the opposite. He wouldn&rsquo;t reward good work - if you did something that was 99% perfect, he&rsquo;d scream and berate you for the 1% that wasn&rsquo;t perfect. The last straw for me was the time I got a new file in, I spent weeks working it up, and prepared a comprehensive letter explaining everything that we were doing, what we planned to do in the future and offering a detailed analysis of the whole thing. Asshole yelled at me because HIS name should be on the signature line of that letter because &ldquo;your only job is to make me look good!&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>He yelled at me over a bill, misspelling my very simple name in a follow-up email. (I have one of those names that has a common spelling and an accepted, but slightly less common spelling like Steven/Stephen. He used the wrong one.) The next most senior partner reported that HE had put the objectionable items into the bill after I had prepared it. Asshole didn&rsquo;t care.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I quit. A lot of other people quit. I heard a year later that literally everyone had quit. They hired new people, including the brother of the next most senior partner. They all quit in less than a year. He lost his biggest client. They had to give up the big suite of offices they built in 2012. Can&rsquo;t say I&rsquo;m sad to hear any of that.</p> </blockquote><p>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/wearsAtrenchcoat/">wearsAtrenchcoat</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>One of my job&#39;s metrics for how our performance is graded by is &quot;on time departure&quot;. We get so many points if we&#39;re within -10, -5, 0, 5 or 10 min from scheduled.</p> <p>People try to cheat by tampering with the clocks and that&#39;s a punishable offense.</p> <p>I was good at leaving early or on time most of the times. Got a call one day to warn me that I was under investigation because Ihad the most points in the company. They assumed that I was cheating, that&#39;s when I knew I had to go. I wasn&#39;t going to start being late to avoid repercussions</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/solar-shock/">solar-shock</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When someone was called into the manager&rsquo;s office, then returned to box up their desk and leave. When I asked the manager if she was okay, I was told, &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t talk about people after they leave.&rdquo;</p> <p>If someone quit or was fired, they were just never mentioned again. It was creepy AF.</p> </blockquote><p>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jonahvsthewhale/">jonahvsthewhale</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My wife works at a deli that mostly employs people that are either in high school or older retired people that are just bored and want something to do. The disparity of maturity creates a lot of workplace drama. I kid you not, there is some 18-year-old girl who works there with her mother, and if you cross this chick she will tell her mom. My wife is also starting to get chewed out for things that her manager forgot to do like ordering food</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Earthwick/">Earthwick</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>They fired a new father the day before Christmas eve because he missed a month of work due to his wife getting very sick after giving birth, he didn&#39;t try to get medical leave or anything because he was worried about his wife and taking care of his newborn.</p> <p>Second one was When I sat in on a leadership meeting, I worked at the time as almost a bridge between two sides of the company and all the leaders did was Gossip about their employees and talk about who they wished they could get rid of, and who annoyed them. One of them was a new leader and they were friends with these peoole a month ago. The meeting was about how to improve morale on the floor and the end result was a competition for a 25 gift card to the company store that is nothing but company apparel that no one wants anyway... it didn&#39;t work.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lilsunflowers/">lilsunflowers</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My parents sent a Halloween care package full of candy to my workplace, written to &ldquo;the care of [my name].. Next time I was at work, I couldn&rsquo;t find the package &mdash; later was told it was opened and all the candy had been eaten</p> </blockquote><p>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/greenoakofenglish/">greenoakofenglish</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When the line &quot;You&#39;re only as good as your last mistake&quot; popped into my head, and I realized that explained everything about how I was treated in that toxic office. It didn&#39;t matter how many things I did well, or effectively; one mistake and that&#39;s all anyone held on to.</p> <p>Also I was hazed my first year there and when I tried to ask about addressing some of the office culture the director shrugged and said &quot;That&#39;s just the [name of college] way.&quot; Yes. This was a very prestigious higher ed institution.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/balancebycj/">balancebycj</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When they wanted to give me an attendance point because a terrorist blew up the at&amp;t building in Nashville and I had no internet to work my Christmas Day shift.</p> </blockquote><p>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ghost-0427/">ghost-0427</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>We reached a point where we regularly had to wait to cash our paychecks. We basically were told we had to get orders completed and paid for, in order for the account to have enough money to pay us.</p> <p>During this time, the boss went on a vacation which was <em>just great</em> for morale.</p> <p>My manager had to take a day off, effectively putting me in charge for the day. I texted my manager, &quot;What should I do if the IRS shows up? lol&quot;. 2 hours later an IRS agent did stop in looking for my boss.</p> <p>I found a new job not long after.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RedditPrat/">RedditPrat</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My realization came late.</p> <p>I got laid off from a job with good pay and benefits, but I was dealing with long hours, high stress, a department with low morale, and a hands-off manager who seemed to care more about the company than me.</p> <p>Even though the place was toxic, I was sad to leave. I&#39;d been there for years, and the job was in a field I know a lot about.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>A few days after the layoff, I attended an event not far from the building I worked in. When I saw the building, the first thought that popped into my head was, &quot;I&#39;m glad I don&#39;t have to go back there tomorrow!&quot;</p> <p>Something somewhere, deep in my brain or my soul, had just told me that the job I&#39;d just been fired from wasn&#39;t for me.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/monkwren/">monkwren</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When I realized there was no policy in place for dealing with aggressive clients, while regularly intaking aggressive clients. Like, are we just supposed to let them hit each other? Call the cops on a pair of 8yos? What? Ain&#39;t none of us trained for physical restraints, so legally we can&#39;t really do much. Am glad I don&#39;t work there anymore.</p> </blockquote><p>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/OrchidBest/">OrchidBest</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Worked at a brewhouse. Well, it was more of a U-Brew, (we made small batches of beer out of malt extract and high fructose corn syrup that customers bottled themselves). The business was sold to a dude who payed way too much, and pretty soon he started cutting corners.</p> <p>Cleaning became unmanageable as he spent entire days in his office watching YouTube videos, occasionally coming out of his cubby hole to yell at customers or accuse them of ripping him off. I stopped drinking the product we made when he refused to deal with broken filtration systems that were possibly leaching harmful bacteria into the beer, (at 5% alcohol, beer doesn&rsquo;t have enough booze in it to kill bad microorganisms). After seven years he still didn&rsquo;t know how to make beer, test the beer, clean any of the equipment or balance the company books.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Paychecks were bounced every few months. He started encouraging cash deals with customers and pocketed all the money, which is illegal for all businesses, but super duper illegal for a company selling alcohol that is virtually untaxed compared to beer bought in a liquor store. Soon the business was broke. He stopped cleaning (which was the only thing he could do). People complained that the beer was giving them stomach cramps and diarrhea.</p> <p>Eventually the molds appeared. Black mold. Yellow mold. Green mold. All the molds in the color of the rainbow. And with that, the customers started to stop buying our product. I quit after a third bounced check. The store tanked and a year later he went bankrupt. Through the grapevine, I have been told that he still blames me for destroying his businesses.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I know your question was about emotionally toxic workplaces and not stomach turning mold. But the manager was also the biggest loudmouth jerk I ever met. Only time I ever cried at work. So in terms of toxicity, it was the best (or worst) of both worlds.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/playbypaper/">playbypaper</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Mine was when after being upskirted at work (17F, the uniform was skirts, a kids/young people store) my (late 30s, male) manager bought me black lace underwear and gave them to me for Christmas. In front of the entire team. At the staff do. It was tongue in cheek, insinuating it&rsquo;d give a future one &lsquo;something to look at&rsquo;. I remember feeling humiliated and sickened, but having to try and save face. I felt like the incident was my fault.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>After that, the &ldquo;I love my job and team and am happy to work in this field and will do anything for them&rdquo; shattered. My eyes opened to illegally long shifts, being underpaid, secretly getting us to cover whilst he pretended to be in and paid us cash in hand so the CEO wouldn&rsquo;t find out, a &ldquo;we only hire young pretty girls because it&rsquo;s good to encourage shy kids or teens and add to the fun theme!&rdquo; being far more nefarious and also morally corrupt. More completely inappropriate workplace things.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I&rsquo;ve thought for five years about coming out and talking about the company. It&rsquo;s <em>somewhat</em> well known in the UK. Past employees have said the same and many are still recovering from it years after leaving. But I&rsquo;ve always been too afraid and I know too well that many people would still support despite things like this coming out.</p> </blockquote><p>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Rollswetlogs/">Rollswetlogs</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>High turnover was always the first sign.</p> </blockquote><p>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BillionTonsHyperbole/">BillionTonsHyperbole</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When a boss told me to go to the port to bribe the officials there to release several containers of materials for the hotel we were building. I did not (and neither did that chickenshit).</p> </blockquote><p>18.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PostbioticFibre/">PostbioticFibre</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Everyone avoided using the sentence &quot;I don&#39;t know&quot; even if they well and truly didn&#39;t know because it almost always meant you&#39;d get fired for it.</p> </blockquote><p>19.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/uselessacount4ever/">uselessacount4ever</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>A couple of female coworkers went to the HR manager to file a complaint about sexism in the workplace, related to the same guy. They got told by the HR manager and their boss that the company wasn&#39;t gonna do anything about it, because it would be very hurtful for this man to hear that his behaviour was wrong...</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Later when some anonymous survey showed that employees were really not as happy as they(company) were claiming on social media, and people even felt discriminated against in the workplace, they brushed it under the carpet saying people were just too stressed when they filled in the survey, like that is not a problem on its own.</p> <p>Many more of these kinds of things, but that&#39;s defo when I realised I had to get out.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>20.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Throwawayx01928/">Throwawayx01928</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>They used the pandemic to cut bonuses, freeze salaries and remove a majority of benefits. When we went public, they gave us virtually nothing. The CEOs and their cronies filled their pockets.</p> <p>A little history: we were acquired by this company and absorbed. Our old company was the absolute SHIT!!! Vegas/Barcelona trips, beers at lunch, sick company parties. We were one of the hottest companies in the biz. EVERYBODY wanted to work for us. We had people planning to move from across the world to be in our office. They stripped all that away right when they hired us and installed a more &quot;corporate&quot; atmosphere.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>All the fun stuff was replaced with mandatory town halls where they preach &quot;community&quot; and &quot;passion&quot; and &quot;integrity.&quot; They then dropped a bomb on us: &quot;were goin public!&quot; During this time they froze salaries and cut bonuses. The company went public, and they didn&#39;t give the employees shit. Instead of being rewarded like we were promised, they rolled out the stingiest RSU plan I&#39;ve ever seen.</p> <p>To make matters all worse, the CFO is a sexist f**k. He calls women b*tches to their face and says the most derogatory shit when they&#39;re not around.</p> <p>The cherry on top is we used to get $1k in cash as a Holiday bonus. This year we got hats with the company logo on it and a power bank (obviously from the swag closet).</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 employees share the moment they realized their workplace was toxic.

If you&#39;ve ever had the unfortunate experience of working in a toxic workplace, you know how degrading and dehumanizing it can be. Hopefully you&#39;re not working there anymore. But if you are, may you find a new job where you are treated like the brilliant and valuable person you are. And may you say &quot;hasta la vista, bebe!&quot; to your toxic boss or co-workers on the way out.Someone asked Reddit: &quot;When was the moment you realized your workplace was toxic?&quot; These 20 employees share their moments of reckoning:1.) From the-cschnepf: I had a job where my girlfriend&rsquo;s Mother was my boss, so I guess the moment I realized my workplace was toxic was when my girlfriend cheated on me and then my girlfriend&rsquo;s Mom hired the guy she cheated on me with. In hindsight, probably more than just the workplace was toxic 2.) From thrown12212020: When our boss got into a screaming match with one of the managers (his daughter) in the middle of the office. I&#39;d just started there 3 weeks ago and it was absolutely mind boggling to watch. I looked around at my coworkers and everyone was just looking away, doing their best to stay quiet and not look at either of them. Person at the desk next to mine saw my shocked face and whispered &quot;they do this a lot. Just ignore it.&quot; 3.) From Thirty_Helens_Agree: It wasn&rsquo;t always. I was fortunate to have a boss who took his role as a mentor very seriously. He wanted us to learn, improve, etc. and he was kind about it. He&rsquo;d reward good work, correct you when you made a mistake, yell at you/scold you only when you really deserved it, and would admit when HE made a mistake.  He retired and left the company in the hands of a dude who was an absolute asshole. Completely the opposite. He wouldn&rsquo;t reward good work - if you did something that was 99% perfect, he&rsquo;d scream and berate you for the 1% that wasn&rsquo;t perfect. The last straw for me was the time I got a new file in, I spent weeks working it up, and prepared a comprehensive letter explaining everything that we were doing, what we planned to do in the future and offering a detailed analysis of the whole thing. Asshole yelled at me because HIS name should be on the signature line of that letter because &ldquo;your only job is to make me look good!&rdquo;  He yelled at me over a bill, misspelling my very simple name in a follow-up email. (I have one of those names that has a common spelling and an accepted, but slightly less common spelling like Steven/Stephen. He used the wrong one.) The next most senior partner reported that HE had put the objectionable items into the bill after I had prepared it. Asshole didn&rsquo;t care.  I quit. A lot of other people quit. I heard a year later that literally everyone had quit. They hired new people, including the brother of the next most senior partner. They all quit in less than a year. He lost his biggest client. They had to give up the big suite of offices they built in 2012. Can&rsquo;t say I&rsquo;m sad to hear any of that. 4.) From wearsAtrenchcoat: One of my job&#39;s metrics for how our performance is graded by is &quot;on time departure&quot;. We get so many points if we&#39;re within -10, -5, 0, 5 or 10 min from scheduled. People try to cheat by tampering with the clocks and that&#39;s a punishable offense. I was good at leaving early or on time most of the times. Got a call one day to warn me that I was under investigation because Ihad the most points in the company. They assumed that I was cheating, that&#39;s when I knew I had to go. I wasn&#39;t going to start being late to avoid repercussions 5.) From solar-shock: When someone was called into the manager&rsquo;s office, then returned to box up their desk and leave. When I asked the manager if she was okay, I was told, &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t talk about people after they leave.&rdquo; If someone quit or was fired, they were just never mentioned again. It was creepy AF. 6.) From jonahvsthewhale: My wife works at a deli that mostly employs people that are either in high school or older retired people that are just bored and want something to do. The disparity of maturity creates a lot of workplace drama. I kid you not, there is some 18-year-old girl who works there with her mother, and if you cross this chick she will tell her mom. My wife is also starting to get chewed out for things that her manager forgot to do like ordering food 7.) From Earthwick: They fired a new father the day before Christmas eve because he missed a month of work due to his wife getting very sick after giving birth, he didn&#39;t try to get medical leave or anything because he was worried about his wife and taking care of his newborn. Second one was When I sat in on a leadership meeting, I worked at the time as almost a bridge between two sides of the company and all the leaders did was Gossip about their employees and talk about who they wished they could get rid of, and who annoyed them. One of them was a new leader and they were friends with these peoole a month ago. The meeting was about how to improve morale on the floor and the end result was a competition for a 25 gift card to the company store that is nothing but company apparel that no one wants anyway... it didn&#39;t work. 8.) From lilsunflowers: My parents sent a Halloween care package full of candy to my workplace, written to &ldquo;the care of [my name].. Next time I was at work, I couldn&rsquo;t find the package &mdash; later was told it was opened and all the candy had been eaten 9.) From greenoakofenglish: When the line &quot;You&#39;re only as good as your last mistake&quot; popped into my head, and I realized that explained everything about how I was treated in that toxic office. It didn&#39;t matter how many things I did well, or effectively; one mistake and that&#39;s all anyone held on to. Also I was hazed my first year there and when I tried to ask about addressing some of the office culture the director shrugged and said &quot;That&#39;s just the [name of college] way.&quot; Yes. This was a very prestigious higher ed institution. 10.) From balancebycj: When they wanted to give me an attendance point because a terrorist blew up the at&amp;t building in Nashville and I had no internet to work my Christmas Day shift. 11.) From ghost-0427: We reached a point where we regularly had to wait to cash our paychecks. We basically were told we had to get orders completed and paid for, in order for the account to have enough money to pay us. During this time, the boss went on a vacation which was just great for morale. My manager had to take a day off, effectively putting me in charge for the day. I texted my manager, &quot;What should I do if the IRS shows up? lol&quot;. 2 hours later an IRS agent did stop in looking for my boss. I found a new job not long after. 12.) From RedditPrat: My realization came late. I got laid off from a job with good pay and benefits, but I was dealing with long hours, high stress, a department with low morale, and a hands-off manager who seemed to care more about the company than me. Even though the place was toxic, I was sad to leave. I&#39;d been there for years, and the job was in a field I know a lot about.  A few days after the layoff, I attended an event not far from the building I worked in. When I saw the building, the first thought that popped into my head was, &quot;I&#39;m glad I don&#39;t have to go back there tomorrow!&quot; Something somewhere, deep in my brain or my soul, had just told me that the job I&#39;d just been fired from wasn&#39;t for me. 13.) From monkwren: When I realized there was no policy in place for dealing with aggressive clients, while regularly intaking aggressive clients. Like, are we just supposed to let them hit each other? Call the cops on a pair of 8yos? What? Ain&#39;t none of us trained for physical restraints, so legally we can&#39;t really do much. Am glad I don&#39;t work there anymore. 14.) From OrchidBest: Worked at a brewhouse. Well, it was more of a U-Brew, (we made small batches of beer out of malt extract and high fructose corn syrup that customers bottled themselves). The business was sold to a dude who payed way too much, and pretty soon he started cutting corners. Cleaning became unmanageable as he spent entire days in his office watching YouTube videos, occasionally coming out of his cubby hole to yell at customers or accuse them of ripping him off. I stopped drinking the product we made when he refused to deal with broken filtration systems that were possibly leaching harmful bacteria into the beer, (at 5% alcohol, beer doesn&rsquo;t have enough booze in it to kill bad microorganisms). After seven years he still didn&rsquo;t know how to make beer, test the beer, clean any of the equipment or balance the company books.  Paychecks were bounced every few months. He started encouraging cash deals with customers and pocketed all the money, which is illegal for all businesses, but super duper illegal for a company selling alcohol that is virtually untaxed compared to beer bought in a liquor store. Soon the business was broke. He stopped cleaning (which was the only thing he could do). People complained that the beer was giving them stomach cramps and diarrhea. Eventually the molds appeared. Black mold. Yellow mold. Green mold. All the molds in the color of the rainbow. And with that, the customers started to stop buying our product. I quit after a third bounced check. The store tanked and a year later he went bankrupt. Through the grapevine, I have been told that he still blames me for destroying his businesses.  I know your question was about emotionally toxic workplaces and not stomach turning mold. But the manager was also the biggest loudmouth jerk I ever met. Only time I ever cried at work. So in terms of toxicity, it was the best (or worst) of both worlds. 15.) From playbypaper: Mine was when after being upskirted at work (17F, the uniform was skirts, a kids/young people store) my (late 30s, male) manager bought me black lace underwear and gave them to me for Christmas. In front of the entire team. At the staff do. It was tongue in cheek, insinuating it&rsquo;d give a future one &lsquo;something to look at&rsquo;. I remember feeling humiliated and sickened, but having to try and save face. I felt like the incident was my fault.  After that, the &ldquo;I love my job and team and am happy to work in this field and will do anything for them&rdquo; shattered. My eyes opened to illegally long shifts, being underpaid, secretly getting us to cover whilst he pretended to be in and paid us cash in hand so the CEO wouldn&rsquo;t find out, a &ldquo;we only hire young pretty girls because it&rsquo;s good to encourage shy kids or teens and add to the fun theme!&rdquo; being far more nefarious and also morally corrupt. More completely inappropriate workplace things.  I&rsquo;ve thought for five years about coming out and talking about the company. It&rsquo;s somewhat well known in the UK. Past employees have said the same and many are still recovering from it years after leaving. But I&rsquo;ve always been too afraid and I know too well that many people would still support despite things like this coming out. 16.) From Rollswetlogs: High turnover was always the first sign. 17.) From BillionTonsHyperbole: When a boss told me to go to the port to bribe the officials there to release several containers of materials for the hotel we were building. I did not (and neither did that chickenshit). 18.) From PostbioticFibre: Everyone avoided using the sentence &quot;I don&#39;t know&quot; even if they well and truly didn&#39;t know because it almost always meant you&#39;d get fired for it. 19.) From uselessacount4ever: A couple of female coworkers went to the HR manager to file a complaint about sexism in the workplace, related to the same guy. They got told by the HR manager and their boss that the company wasn&#39;t gonna do anything about it, because it would be very hurtful for this man to hear that his behaviour was wrong...  Later when some anonymous survey showed that employees were really not as happy as they(company) were claiming on social media, and people even felt discriminated against in the workplace, they brushed it under the carpet saying people were just too stressed when they filled in the survey, like that is not a problem on its own. Many more of these kinds of things, but that&#39;s defo when I realised I had to get out. 20.) From Throwawayx01928: They used the pandemic to cut bonuses, freeze salaries and remove a majority of benefits. When we went public, they gave us virtually nothing. The CEOs and their cronies filled their pockets. A little history: we were acquired by this company and absorbed. Our old company was the absolute SHIT!!! Vegas/Barcelona trips, beers at lunch, sick company parties. We were one of the hottest companies in the biz. EVERYBODY wanted to work for us. We had people planning to move from across the world to be in our office. They stripped all that away right when they hired us and installed a more &quot;corporate&quot; atmosphere.  All the fun stuff was replaced with mandatory town halls where they preach &quot;community&quot; and &quot;passion&quot; and &quot;integrity.&quot; They then dropped a bomb on us: &quot;were goin public!&quot; During this time they froze salaries and cut bonuses. The company went public, and they didn&#39;t give the employees shit. Instead of being rewarded like we were promised, they rolled out the stingiest RSU plan I&#39;ve ever seen. To make matters all worse, the CFO is a sexist f**k. He calls women b*tches to their face and says the most derogatory shit when they&#39;re not around. The cherry on top is we used to get $1k in cash as a Holiday bonus. This year we got hats with the company logo on it and a power bank (obviously from the swag closet). 

If you&#39;ve ever had the unfortunate experience of working in a toxic workplace, you know how degrading and dehumanizing it can be. Hopefully you&#39;re not working there anymore. But if you are, may you find a new job where you are...