My toxic work environment is making me want to quit. I’ve 2 colleagues who are of equal and lower statuses than myself and they have been sucking up to the boss.
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They enable the bosses bad habits too, like responding to requests over the weekend and after hours. It has come to the point where my boss’ instructions to the team come from them. Like what?!? He is clearly not an objective and partial leader. I fear for my performance review because us who draw the line with work-life balance and don’t believe in sucking up with suffer.
Is there anything at all I can do about it?? Even advice on how to stay sane will be appreciated.
Here are what netizens think:
- You can draw boundaries and disengage but do note it can be really challenging to fix a toxic work environment, especially if you are much lower on the hierarchy scale. Is going to drain a lot of your energy, both mentally and emotionally. I would consider looking for another job.
- dont think yr colleagues are sucking up. yr boss does not respect weekend time and they are responding according, the former should be the one drawing the line and telling yr colleagues no emails during weekends. you can ask for a team transfer or quit or if you feel yr boss can change, escalate to yr boss’s boss and see if he/she takes in the feedback (unlikely)
- Personally I have to like and respect the boss to be able to work comfortably in a place for a long time, so if it’s not suitable, I’d rather look for another place than to stay. It’s like a relationship, it has to be a suitable partner since working life takes up quite a huge chunk of our daily life and time. The negative feelings will just grow inside if you force yourself to stay and then keep feeling unhappy. There are many stressed out and angsty people around nowadays, so it’s better to find alternative options rather than let the negative feelings accumulate until you become like that too. All these subtle stuff happening internally can slowly affect the mental and physical health.