“Manager Brought Me Into Her Office Because I Stretched At The Front Desk”: 16 Employees Share Reasons For Leaving Their Toxic Jobs

Toxic work culture remains a huge problem, even nowadays. It's commonly believed that unhealthy behaviors are generally an issue in large companies due to an unbelievable amount of competition where, unfortunately, fundamental human values get put aside. Yet, it seems like ethical organizations that practice healthy environments could be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Statistically speaking, according to a 2019 report from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), in the space of the previous 5 years, one in five Americans had left a workplace due to an unhealthy culture. That's an exceedingly large amount of people who had the courage and the facilities to leave their job – however, what about those who can simply not afford to leave a workplace?

Sure thing, there have to be some great companies that focus on the well-being of their staff and believe in an honest and moral environment. However, it's not really a standard practice, as when one gets recruited, there's always this dreadful anxiety about potentially ending up in a sort of disrespected atmosphere.

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To bring awareness to this ongoing problem, a Twitter user that goes by the name @jaydeipowell asked her followers if anyone has ever left a job due to a toxic environment.

The thread received over 313K likes, 53K retweets and a very engaging discussion, where people weren't afraid to share their disastrous encounters.

Sadly, sexual harassment is a crucial problem that happens everywhere, not only at work. The majority of victims are women – however, men can also be targets for the harassers.

Offensive jokes, inappropriate touching and intimidating behaviors – these things suggest that a workplace practices an extremely unsafe environment. But it's not a secret that fighting such an issue is very problematic, especially when the management is involved.

However, it's essential to report individuals when possible, as this behavior has a huge potential of repeating with many more victims.

 

It seems like close-minded folks will never accept others or acknowledge that they're being full-on fools for not tolerating the same people that live on the same planet and walk on the same ground.

It's rather absurd that our society has to educate somebody to be a "better" person when there should be nothing to discriminate against in the first place. However, bad news: only educating people like that can somehow engrave basic human decency into their brains.

 

 

Microaggressions also hugely affect people's mental health, as they can only be described as lingering emotional "death". Frankly, it's also a form of discrimination, as it's usually aimed towards marginalized groups that one dislikes.

Mispronouncing someone's name because it's too difficult to say, assuming that an older staff member doesn't understand technology – these examples are just a minor insight into how normalized microaggressions actually are.

One of many positive factors of social media is that there's always a possibility to voice your concerns. The chances are that you'll get support from several people that have dealt with the exact same issues, which slowly but gradually will help our society to fix the broken. Even if we start with simply teaching people how to correctly behave themselves, without hurting others.