Founder threatening employees and not allowing a graceful exit

I am going through my notice at an early stage Start-up. The founder is extremely toxic and is trying to create issues despite me trying to work double hard. She is not even seeing my face and acting all weird - I don't know how to deal with this.

Hi Everyone, This post is about the Toxic Co-Founder of Quantiphi (Mr Toxic Asif Hassan). Reasons: 1. Work-Culture has become Toxic, People in Project are working since 5 weekends without any single leave ( No Extra Pay/No Comp-offs/ No weekend Leaves) and that to 13-14hours a day Straight. 2. People in my project who have raised voices have been told (" You know what options you have and I have "). Indirectly saying if you revolt either i will fire you or you resign immediately. 3. People facing issues with Clients(Canda's BigTicket Insurance Firm) paying a huge amount for an un-realistic deadline project were told by Asif. If you have any problems that don't come to me, i want only solutions( He doesn't want to listen to Anyone). 4. People were forcefully told to come to the office ( Some people who had some genuine issues e.g. one of our colleagues recently got blessed with a baby) was told by Asif you are not the one caring for the baby, So you have to come. 5. All our advanced leaves are cancelled, People who are taking Sick leave are being told either bring your backup or work with your Illness, we don't care. 6. Issues raised with HR, HR says "We cant do anything". 7. In the last 7 days many senior people and colleagues were either Forcefully resigned / got Laid-Off. 8. The people suffering the most are the ones directly in touch with the client or the developers reason being Asif bashes Managers and Managers Bash us for No fault of ours because of the un-realistic deadlines set. 9. People revolting are put on the bench and are laid-off the next day without any reason. The Moral of the whole team is near to Zero and many of us are thinking to voluntarily Resign from this toxic workplace. Guys do suggest, should we call out these kinds of toxic Co-Founders and Companies or not. I need to help me reach this post to a wider audience. Happy to hear comments.

Can anyone share for the benefit of those who are keen to avoid making mistakes..

Another day, another newsbreak on a start-up's downfall. The whole Co-living Start-up bubble might burst! Can go through this article and share your views? https://themorningcontext.com/internet/stanza-and-the-coliving-business-struggle-to-survive#:~:text=Stanza%20Living%20is%20struggling.,no%20money%20has%20come%20in.

I know sometimes we refrain from saying too much about our company. But exes can usually be talked about, since there's not much holding back. Maybe it helps someone else avoid a mistake you did, or gain a new learning :p Shoot.

Verified email screenshots coming from employees working at Skolar. CEO mass hires from colleges targeting internship opportunity crowd and promising them full time based on performance. Poor students fall in this trap. Here is how the CEO, Muskan Rastogi makes people perform - Promises office timing from 11am to 8pm but force employees till 11pm at night - Holds the original documents of school / college certificates and uses that as a way to blackmail employees if they wish to leave - Asks employees to pay from their pocket if they leave in month (usually by this time employees find the company is shitty toxic, but get mental torture that the company has certificates held) - CEO Promises on time payment of salaries but has never come on time - Deducts LOPs unreasonably if questioned - Shouts and yells at employees to establish dominance at office - Has zero empathy on employees. Read the public email screenshots that are arranged into a single image for better readability. Name of the employee masked to protect their privacy. More documents and proofs can be shared here if CEO continues this for future employees.

Joined this organization as an SDE. Initially, had a great experience for the first few months, got to learn a lot. However, eventually, the management (co-founder) started showing his true colors where they would favor a few people who would say yes to everything the co-founder had to say, while others who asked for justification would suffer. One such issue is the lack of concrete documentation for policies, and surprise, surprise, the policies change based on the mood of the founders. HR, oh, where can I begin? I honestly haven't seen them work, other than salary processing, where they have outsourced their work like LinkedIn management and basic tasks such as wishing employees on their birthdays. This is perfectly fine with the co-founder, as he considers this innovative. Unnecessarily, we are forced to follow processes that hamper productivity, and we have to attend meetings for half the day. Still, they expect us to work for more than 10 hours when the salary is peanuts—hell, even peanuts are better; at least we can have them with alcohol. My learning is saturated, and there’s no zeal to learn as the manager and others demotivate you. The most frustrating part is the quarterly rewards, which make no sense, as the rewards are given to people who can appease their managers (confirmed). And now that we have increments incoming, they have all of a sudden started highlighting mistakes, finding mistakes even if they don’t exist. Like one such example was the co-founder asking us to write a script when the script was already shown, and asking for an update on a JIRA ticket when it was already given in the comments. They lost my respect when they started canceling people’s PTOs and disturbing people on their much-needed PTOs where they spend time with their families and unwind. The co-founder asks the PO to call and disturb the developer on their much-needed vacations after working for long hours and weekends as he wants to satisfy his ego.

Link: https://inc42.com/buzz/unacademy-fires-another-250-employees-to-turn-profitable/

One of the old employees dropped a bomb of an e-mail against the entire leadership of PhonePe Mass Offline leadership addressing about mental harassment, hostile comments, threatening to sack, and pushing employees to have no work life balance. This mail was sent to the Founder Sameer Nigam and the HR Head.