10 Subtle Signs Your Job is Toxic ️

Which subtle signs of a toxic workplace did you experience?

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This is sounding more and more like the military, I'm so glad I found this. I thought I was going crazy

How come none of the commentors say the name of where they worked ?

Giant red flag: nepotism arrangements. When the boss' wife/husband works in the office. Especially if they're not qualified for the role. Run far, far away and don't ever accept the job. Nothing good ever comes out of that. Or any form of nepotism really (friends, family members, etc). You, as the employee, will always be "wrong". Not to mention, if you have a legitimate complaint about a spouse, you can't exactly bring that up to the boss. Nepotism harms morale in the office.

I didnt know i worked one day and after an hour when my shift started i came in, was screamed at by my meth head manager while the big boss stood there silently.

Literally the next week my manager didn't show to her shift for 5 hours and the big boss was telling us how because she was late that her dog was probably going to die since she had to stay and couldn't give it their meds.
The manager comes in and after a casual apology and buddy buddy talk, the big biss just laughed and said it was fine.. wtf

Literally my workplace

At this point I think there needs to be an entirely different system in place with management. I feel as if they shouldn't be in charge of your payroll, schedules, or your chance of promotion because all 3 of those can always be toyed with whenever they feel like retaliating or if they simply just don't like you. It just gives them too much power and an advantage point over you. I was literally quiet fired because I had a store manager who personally didn't like me at work and yet I have not gave her any reason to. I worked 11-12 hour shifts and pulled my weight with no call offs and yet she cut my hours down to 17 a week, demoted me and clocked everything I did on the job. I eventually became mentally drained from dealing with that and just left. Thankfully I have people in my life to fall back on because the job market is harsh right now

Avoid places that bang on about their “best place to work awards.” I’ve found them to be the very worst!

Bully, mean, nasty, micromanaging bosses=Toxic Ass Fuck Managers and work places!

they expect you to be a copycat of them.. wear and think and behave the same as them or else.. they would either bully you or consider you an enemy/outsider 🙄🙄🙄

I'm submitting my resignation letter on Monday. Been working at my current toxic workplace for three years and things are only going from bad to worse. Getting out before shit gets real.

The long-term employees are usually the bullies who work the least. The worse thing is management knows but still decide to retain them.

Hey Jennifer I got one for you. I’ll try to quickly explain
I’m 47, been working warehouse my whole life. I’m just a worker bee. I’m now at a medical device company where kids are 10-15 years younger than me and 3 older than me. Most co workers are Filipinos. They stick very closely to each other and just came here from fphilipines. I’m Hispanic, the only one. They keep getting promoted when they don’t have the experience but look out for themselves. When I bring up things that’ll make the warehouse better it gets ignored even though I got years experience. Boss is married to a Filipino so he biased towards them. He Hispanic too. Don’t want favoritism towards me for that though just to know I can contribute. All them stick together all the time, drinking and everything. I always try to be cool but stuff I talk about they got no clue. I’ve worked in 2 warehouses where we all busted balls and talked while working. Here they don’t do that. They get upset with me if I talk alittle smack to them so I stopped. Any suggestions other than keep to myself? It’s getting hard to stay but I don’t wanna leave cause the hours work for me picking up my 4 year old. Oh and none of them have kids either. Sorry to all blunt but I am older and just speak my mind from the heart. Suggestions? Hope to hear from ya soon.

Thank you! The mistake thing happened to me! As a NEW HIRE! She threatened to put me on a plan. Fine. Fire me and spend another year interviewing and training someone new! Lololol

Where I use to work the AVPs and managers VACATIONED together and POSTED it on FACEBOOK! This a Fortune 100 company.

You are your own hero.

Long term employees who cause high turnover was so prevalent at one place I worked at. Openly harassing the new hires and creating toxicity all around. I was so surprised how many of them didn’t get fired.

So the US Army is 10/10. Must be why recruiting numbers are so great.

I worked once in a tech center for a major home and business broadband and mobile phone supplier in New Zealand I was hired in 2015 I kid you not it was here’s your swipe card here’s your phone here your desk see you later. No onboarding no training nothing and we were expected to repair problems via the phone for customers 24/7. I trained myself to learn each and every process there was but yet they demanded more and more from us the workplace was extremely toxic people were quick to backstab you or make up false allegations against you if it got themselves noticed which happened to me when I was trying to vein to assist this gentleman with a thick Geordie accent I was accused of making fun of him because I couldn’t understand and a single word he said. My supervision was from that part of England he listened to the call and found absolute no errors or mishandling, he told me he was upset with the complainant for making up false allegations. From then I knew everyone was out to get one another it was t a nice place to work towards the end of my time there I resigned moved away from NZ now my life is amazing as can be with my wife and child great job a beautiful big home and the job security it has for life.

My bf's works for a big consultancy firm which is already a risky sector but they throw megalomaniac parties and then don't give proper bonuses this year even though he is one of the best workers and pumped up their revenue like no other. He got a measly 100 € bonus but because of his new company car he ended up with less than last year, net. He's so upset. I hate these shitty snakepits. They do call the employees "family". Yeah, a disfunctional one right? And the hours are long. I told my BF he can make more at the government and now he is looking for something else 😻

Saw all the signs from the very beginning. I should have left earlier. Now I am left with a very deteriorating mental health.

We are a family..... the Manson family!

❤ thank you so much

Okay video..too much fluff.

I was 20 when I got my first job as a dental assistant. Before I continue, yes I was very naive and stupid. Anyways I didn’t know much about how much I should I have gotten payed. The store offer me $14 but by law you have to pay dental assistant $19.99. Either way I took it. The guy started saying that “we were family”. 🙄 I knew it was a bit of a lie. But I still continue working there. Even after the girl who works there told me that she has been working there for like 8 years and that she even cried to them to Increase her pay of $17 to at least $18. I told her to find something else she said “idk it’s that everyone here is like family” 🙄 I guess they Brain washed her.

“ we are a family” RUNNNNN the worst job I have ever had was the one that kept saying they are the family.

I worked for a company that bounced paychecks. My check bounced twice, so I quit. The company closed eventually.

Currently in this situation and im ready to get outtttt

She’s describing my company and the toxic people in power to a tea! Unfortunately I need the money badly but I think I’ll phase myself out and transfer to another store if I can. Working on it!

Wow, I am a programmer, and when you mentioned that you aren't so good at "Attention to Detail," I feel that. I've had meeting where I was blamed for a word that should have been captialized and wasn't on a website that was still in development. The text was sent to me via email and was cut and pasted in the editor, and the word wasn't capitialized in the email and I missed it.

Later, I was in another meeting where I capitialized the same work on the same website, and was called into a meeting where I was blamed for chaning the text I was send. That place was toxic af; and I no longer work there.

Hytorc of Texas is toxic!!!

I left my job long time ago bcoz of toxic work culture thereafter forever I said no to Toxic jobs and no to gruelling business.
I became financially independent and today I live a delightful life.
I work from home and earn 2000-3000 rs daily through options trading.
I am the boss of my own work.

Rampant gossip, unprofessional leadership

Ughhhh I just do the job , get paid , go home

I’m low key at work

I want to someday run my own business. This way it will be a happy,positive work environment.

I've worked at 3 toxic employers.

One was rated one of the best employers in Canada but during my 4 years there, management decided to go Theory X.

Another company had a few aggressive employees who figured if you weren't getting ulcers, you weren't really working. They would bend over backwards to help you one day only to send an ego mail to you the next day about some concern they had about your work and CC half the department. Upper management realized there was an issue and brought in a consultant to have workshops with employee groups, but I don't think the main culprits were told to follow professional business etiquette or their employment would be terminated.

A third company has a good culture but their clients were all toxic plus management tried to keep the headcount low so it was very stressful working there.

I worked at one place where my co-workers socialized together... but they didn't invite me 😢

My current Job has so many of these. When I interviewed they told me I got a 1st shift position. So I quit my other job only for them to tell me on my first day of work that the 1st shift job was no longer available and I had to be put on third shift. 5 different people got turned in to HR in one week for various reason. Then they always hit you with the "We're Family" although they have a high turnover and gossip about the same people they have such with everyday. We work 7 days a week so there is no life work balance. I also have a co-worker that would ignore me and roll their eyes at me when I would speak. Once I started distancing myself I became the bad guy and start hearing rumors. Then people started taking sides while I just want to do my job and go home...It's a highly aggressive atmosphere for no reason. It's an easy job.

I felt a nauseating feeling from the time I sat down on the first day and it left when I walked out.

I’m at a company that calls itself “a family.” Uh-huh😝. Another thing that can lead to toxicity is family owed. Just found out my boss is the daughter of the President so I’m very cautious about what I say to her. That makes me uncomfortable.

High turnover is always a bad sign

The one place I worked at claimed that "We are family!". Little did we know, it was filled with the owner's legitimate and illegitimate children.

Holy shit! I'm only a minute into this and you've already described that cult I worked at.

Woah my work has that. They also have a, "we're here to accommodate you." They even had a rule where even when your off you're still suppose to be a person that goes along with there principles and ethical approach. There's a bunch of posters like, "Integrity is doing what's right when no ones looking." Take pride in your work. Yet everyone me mostly seem they hate their job. First day I started I was told there's a high turn over rate. Also heard the hire person and manager mention about not thinking someone will make it their.
And of course, they advertise themself as a family.

Can you please talk about volunteer rights in a workplace/in a school environment?

A rat-infected work place... what is so secretive about it being toxic? xD

Also the most toxic work environments are places those on either side of the size spectrum - large offices with HR departments and corporate culture (which is most often designed to be cult-like behaviour),.. and the smallest of family businesses that you're not treated as an employee, but as a slave-adjacent - you're expected to do a lot more than what you are paid for and care as much as the business/profit as they do.

Constantly changing upper management and leadership

The project I was assigned at is very toxic. I work in separate team that assigns us to projects that need coverage, so lets say we are rented out there. I like the position itself, as my managers are fantastic people and I have been recognized as valuable employee with on-point opinions. Buuut the project itself ? Calling me in on Teams with no context to just ask aggressive questions about stuff I said 3 months ago... or why i didnt answer one query on the chat.. I was not onboarded at all. they expected me to gather everything myself from day 1 ! they expected me to redo all the documentation dating 3 years back, although they do not understand the documentation themselves. I wanted to be transferred but they have no one new to cover it, as my original team is understaffed.

I'm listening to this and the signs tick. I had been in a toxic place. Big time toxic. Bad thing I learned that the hard way 😢

Wow, this video is a goldmine of insights on the evolving work week! A four-day work week? Woohoo!