What's the most toxic incident you've come across at your workplace?
It can be either a strange workplace policy, an altercation with a manager or absolutely anything else.
corporatesucks
Stealth
2 years ago
A coworker never joins our team meetings and silently makes changes to our design files. Never takes feedback but is the first one to give it. Passive aggressively +1s every opposing comment by other people. Basically doesn’t know how to work in a team and thinks he’s more intelligent than everyone else on the team. He’s also been ignorantly sexist. I’m at my wits end and I’m honestly thinking of quitting because of this guy.
corporatesucks
Stealth
2 years ago
I’m not sure if my concern will be heard. A lot of things are dismissed by leadership saying “we’ll fix it” rather than actually taking the time out to figure out what the problem is.
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Dcube
Stealth
2 years ago
My manager in my previous company was super nosey and micro manager.
She made one of the leads to monitor me whole day, by sharing screen in pandemic time.
I quit after a week.
I had this pathetic manager of mine who had typically made my life miserable ..she would literally yell and torture me ..and i mean "Yell" at me for the smallest of mistakes ..she was an horrid experience i ever faced professionally tbh..specially after facing a personal loss and going through counselling. It was a testing time for me . One day i mustered the courage to complain about her on a coffee session with the founder .. he politely listened to me and took action. Turns out, she always had that kind of negative reputation and was known for her shitty behaviour among her peers in office
incognito
Stealth
2 years ago
Everyone started being really cold rude and unhelpful to me in the office, even those I had never interacted with.
Turns out the guy sitting next to me was a social butterfly and was spreading rumours like i killed my pet cat, like wtf.
JohnnySins
Stealth
2 years ago
This is the winning post.
So is that the cat in the cat in the pic? And why did you kill it. Lol.
On a serious note, how can people believe other people so easily
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ConcurrentThinker
Stealth
2 years ago
I haven't faced any horrible incident as such. But had a micro manager in one of my previous companies. He was exactly like the Big Head from Silicon valley tv series. He had no idea how things worked. Just kept on panicking and asking if it's done. But he was not abusive or anything. I just ignored his calls after some time and called back at the EOD
In my previous employment with a big4, I was a Consulting lead in a data migration and reporting project. The client is a big, reputed software vendor. The project was an absolute nightmare. The client manager was the most micromanaging and nitpicking person I’ve ever worked with.
We used to have minimum 3 standups daily and were working 15-16 hours straight for months at end. No matter what we did, this client was never satisfied and used to rebuke my team publicly in team meetings.
JohnnySins
Stealth
2 years ago
Past year I was on leave, my father was in hospital and really sick. During this time one of my team member went to my boss and complained that I was not taking care of the team.
Luckily my dad is well now. I left that team.
In my first job, I had a manager who always used derogatory words during meetings and 1-on-1s. On one particular incident, he went way too ahead and I complained to the HR. Not much happened, but within 3 days of that complaint I quit(got another offer). That’s when things went downhill for the manager.
In hindsight, I am quite glad it happened early in my career, as it taught me how to handle such situations.
In my previous org, my ex-manager tried to control me by never letting my opinions/ideas travel above him, constantly threatned to fire me, gave me threats such as "our founder is well connected, you'll not find another job if you leave this place"
Catander13
Stealth
2 years ago
At my previous org, my manger would call me up on my personal number and shout at me for not responding to his email
We laid off people without any warnin or any severence :( quite toxic imo
criticalresourceF99
Stealth
2 years ago
Dude you guys are the one who does that YouTube shorts right?
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Worked with JustDial Co founder in Bangalore who hires yes men or ex JD employees. He actually told us he will tell us what to do and not to think by ourselves once. He is a lame narcissist though with all his family running the company and he kept changing the app or shutting it down making us start work again and again from zero. Blew money on concerts which was nowhere related to the company and he just wanted to show off always.
Vegetabledev22
Stealth
2 years ago
Had 2 micromanagers and india director overlooking my work just because i said i wont do support work or graveyard shift.
Ended up leaving the company within 9 months, and it was one of the worst periods of my life.
Higher_modulation
Stealth
2 years ago
I just got call of duty for my ps5
Thanks for the shitty games, Vegetabledev22.
Puns aside, sorry you had to wade through that cesspit of misery.
One senior employee expects team members to work not only on weekends but even when they are on leave, has sent an email saying this. Gives work on Friday evening, sends follow up sms/calls on weekends and on Monday morning 9.30 am asks for completed work. Best part, this manager is so unqualified, keeps making comments that show complete lack of knowledge on subject, but is close to top people so nothing can be done.
I was working at a large IT firm. There was 8 senior managers. 6 of them were toxic. They were nasty and crude to each other and their reportees. It was out in the open, not even hidden. Team culture itself encouraged people to become uncultured brutes.
I would raise a pull request in the morning, the manager would ask me minutes or an hour later when it would get pushed, lol. As if all PRs are uneventful.
A good bloke otherwise, but this was the manager's toxic trait.
FixedScore41
Stealth
2 years ago
As a fresher I was tagged with a SSE and we were working for a big airlines client in the US.
He used to take early morning call with them ( didn’t used to tell me or add me). Get some updates on the tasks and used to share it with me. Then he used to go out with his fam or just sleep.
There was another client call at 5PM. He used to come online at 4:30PM and get all the analysis out of me and in the call he used to say he himself worked on it and I helped him out :)
I was not much bothered with at first but after a few days he started pressuring me for the work that he needs to do. He used to call me up in case I don’t reply to his texts. Didn’t let me take offs. Used to say “yeh toh karna pdega boss”
After handling it for two months I got fed up with it and complained it to the department head and asked for the team change.
My Company CEO asked me to verbally abuse my subordinate and create a toxic environment in my team just because they made a few mistakes. Right there and then decided I need to leave this shithole. Fortunately all the members of my team left shortly after me.
I had the very same experience at a startup. He was a Founder and was OK with me working normally but wanted me to force the team to work 16 hour days as well as weekends.
Had the same epiphany that I need to get out of here, don't need this s**t.
Request from a department head to Cancel Weekly 1 hour Fun Friday activity because her associates are not able to focus on work. That too on fridays. All other dept use to enjoy the activities. Most of the times those people will be roaming around cig and tea shops only 😂 after complain from other departments it was again brought back.
Tbh I used to (and still do) hate forced “happy hours”. I’m an excessive introvert. Team building exercises are torture for me.
My prev org used to have really aggressive managers. They’ll end up calling you at 2am if they want to release something. Had a terrible wlb. Ended up quitting it :/
guruji
Student
2 years ago
same happened with me 2 days back
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