What was the first moment you realized your workplace wasn’t just stressful, but actually toxic?
For me, it was when I started rehearsing conversations in my head before meetings just to avoid being misunderstood. I’m curious how others noticed the shift before things got really heavy. What was your moment?

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It was friday. On a daily call I said it will be ready by tomorrow. And the CTO catched it and said you must finish it by tomorrow. Even if I said next working day (monday) as Saturday is week off.

I had to complete the task by working on Saturday. And everybody in the staff still makes fun of it...

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What!!

Losing sleep over preparing for every conversation.

All I can say is I wish I had left sooner. Cover yourself. Put everything in writing. And do everything you can to get out.

When my “leader“ bowled over everyone on my team, our employees, my peers and even HR with no regard to what her role was or the good things that we were doing. She didn’t care. And now she’s in HR.😎🤭

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Little conversations about colleagues behind their back and micro managing for me

Micro managing the the worst

panic attacks, weight gain

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