Employees Are Sharing The Moment They Started To Realize Their Workplace Was Toxic

An employee miscarried at work, the manager's response? Walk it off.

Chelsi

• Published in Interesting
• June 25, 2022

A shocking phenomenon happened fairly recently and it was unofficially dubbed The Mass Resignation. More than 42 employees in the US alone resigned from their jobs.

Employees cited several reasons why they left their jobs. The leading cause was low wages, similarly, employees also felt they were stuck in a stagnant workplace, and the third reason why employees quit was the disrespect in their workplace.

Next to those, employees cited the lack of flexibility, inefficient yet costly benefits, and inconsistent work hours. It's not like adults are refusing to work, it's that we realized we want a job that is meaningful, pays well and values our humanity.

The bar is not that high yet employers are failing left and right when it comes to meeting their employees' needs. Once an event like the Mass Resignation happened they began to blame workers for their shuttered businesses saying nobody wants to work anymore.

It simply isn't true. There is no reason for an employee to work at a business that refuses to dignify the cost of their labor.

It's only fair that we get to evaluate whether we like working for these companies when they do the same thing to us. Employees have finally realized their worth and are simply saying enough is enough.

Lindsay Hanson, a freelance business coach, asked one of the most relatable questions on TikTok:

She asked her fellow millennials to share the moment they realized they were working in a toxic workplace. She shared her own eye-opening moment when she asked her senior to have lunch with her but he declined, saying he doesn't want the other employees to see him taking a lunch break.

Soon enough the responses poured in and needless to say, the system is broken. Workers shared their own shocking experiences and it was a lot.

You can watch Lindsay's TikTok video below:

I bet corporate was delighted by that convenient loophole I'm sure they didn't take advantage of

At this instance, this is no longer a bad boss, he is a horrible human being

Obviously your trauma doesn't stock the shelves and man the registers so you have to come in to work tomorrow

You, a human, got sick after working so hard? Unimaginable! Impossible!

How dare an employee take their mandatory break when they could have used that precious time to work for an audit two months into the future!

Where do people get this much confidence that they can sexually harass not one, but two colleagues?

This is so random but you kind of have to sign this NDA and no, silly, you can't ask why because we are not done covering it up

I'm so sorry for your loss and as a symbol of our empathy we left the bathrooms filthy for you to clean when you clock in later

We value your privacy but we reserve the right to monitor your calls randomly without your knowledge and use what you say against you

You have to make up that lie? Just go for the classic your car broke down! Don't fake a life-threatening illness!

We like employees who come to us with solutions instead of problems. Seems like you fit the bill. Thank you for sending your kids away to line the pockets of our corporate overlords.

Drop the name of the company, queen. They sound delightful!

You have to move your wedding because I forgot to pencil it in the schedule

Did you report your boss to HR?

25 cents is better than a pizza party

That is an excellent display of "we are all family here"

There were so many realizations during the pandemic

Imagine being a manager and thinking this was an okay thing to say to your employee who just miscarried

There is no good enough reason to waste years of your life stuck at a dead-end toxic job. A healthy working environment is vital to the productivity of employees.

If the managers and other employees are making the environment so stressful that some employees dread going to work daily, then it's not a place worthy of your skills and labor. Yes, we need jobs, but we have to realize that these businesses need us too.

Chelsi