What's the most toxic incident you've come across at your workplace?

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.

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.

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 :/

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

We laid off people without any warnin or any severence :( quite toxic imo

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.

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

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.

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.