Toxic company traits

So, I joined this company located in Delhi last year from Bangalore as a permanent WFH employee. Initial 6 months were fine, even though I was aware they had pre-installed tracking software called "Teramind" while sending the laptop! But in the last 3 months the work culture or environment has completely flipped and turned into Toxic. First they made us install a remote tracking software called "Hubstaff" which tracks keyboard and mouse activity and time, and takes 4 screenshots every 10 minutes. Then they made it compulsory 8 hours a day excluding any break like lunch or tea. This month they tied work hours with Salary and started deducting the entire day's pay even if you are short by like half an hour! Almost all employees know they need to leave but are kinda stuck due to the current job market situation. I'M thinking of quitting without finding another job now, I'm just mentally tired and frustrated with the situation I find myself in. All my emotional energy is spent, I just don't know what to do😞

Looking for genuine and non diplomatic answers since it will be anonymous. It is upto you to reveal the name of the company you resigned from. Lets discuss!!! I will go first - I quit my last organisation (a famous UPI company) in 2020 because, they still are in old technology. No cloud computing, no kubernates, no terraform. Their entire baremetal infra are in 2 DCs (Mumbai and Bangalore). Leadership ideas are outdated. I was very much bored and looking for a change.

Working at a Paytm subsidiary. My manager left the firm 6 months ago and instead of hiring a replacement I was given all his work with no increment or bonus. I worked my ass off and ensured there were no issues. Come appraisal time, no promotion, 5% increment, lot of bonus esops with (5%, 5%, 10%, 10%, 70%) vesting. This is the most weird vesting period I've come across and almost looks they are trying to trap me into staying here. My experience is not unique. A lot of senior people left last year and they haven't hired but rather dumped their work on juniors. I feel like an idiot for trusting the firm to reward my work.

Joined a product based Company two months back. Company culture is great. decent pay. good policies like insurance, cab, leaves etc. But in the department I'm working at, the work is very Toxic. It's minimum 9 hours everyday (continuous stretch). and what's surprising is stress and hectic work is normalised here. No one talks about. no signs of change as well.

Basis recent news article and interview of the founder, the company is in talks for external funding. Has the founder money run out, he is also talking about ipo in 2 years.

It can be either a strange workplace policy, an altercation with a manager or absolutely anything else.

Dear Fellas, I hope who so ever is reading this post is doing great. I need a personal advice from all of you who have started 30's journey with a wife and newly born kid ( 2-3 months old). I am working with analytics role with a Edtech renowned company for 2 years now. Due to following reason I feel like I to switch : 1. Job insecurity ( lay offs) - (however they don't have any replacement to my role.) 2. Very short sighted leaders. 3. Very low increments even with maximum ratings. 4. Sir & Ma'am like culture. 5. They poke for working from home even with genuine reasons. 6. Strictly time bounded culture. 7. Less chances for promotion as sometimes I give priority to my personal life. So I want a suggestion that does it sound good to rejoin to the analytics consulting roles. Will that make my life easy or this is not the right time looking at the market situation.

TCS stands for Toxic Company Supporters.