Overthinking making me ill

[Zig27]

My new job is overwhelming and toxic people are trying to pass their work onto me. I have spoken to my supervisor who is on my side but the toxic people are making threats and are trying to escalate to the manager. The manager is a pushover and sides with the toxic people a lot as they don’t want to be seen as unsupportive.

I have worked there before and I have known these people for years. The toxic people are lazy and the other day were chatting in the office in a group for over an hour not doing any work. One of the toxic people who is trying to get me to do their work is passing their work onto others too so they can ‘work’ from home which I have been told they are pretending to work but playing with their baby.

It has been on my mind on all weekend it has been on my mind and I am getting stomach pains.

Were they always “toxic”

Either way - doesn’t sound the right job for you

Can you get another job? You can't change those people and you don't have the support of your manager so your options within that job are limited.

Find a new job, leave, and mention the lazy coworkers at your exit interview.

Are the people passing their work onto you senior or not? If not, then don’t accept it. If your (useless) manager is approachable as you say, then simply tell them of the situation and say whilst you’re happy to be a team player (even if you dislike the team), you’re not happy at all to be used as somebody to pawn their work off onto.

But equally, don’t listen to office gossip. It’s nothing more than hearsay that someone is using WFH to pretend to work but play with their baby (by playing with, I assume you mean mothering/fathering) and you couldn’t have been that busy yourself if you were eavesdropping on a conversation you were not involved in for over an hour.

@SoniaFouler

Are the people passing their work onto you senior or not? If not, then don’t accept it. If your (useless) manager is approachable as you say, then simply tell them of the situation and say whilst you’re happy to be a team player (even if you dislike the team), you’re not happy at all to be used as somebody to pawn their work off onto.

But equally, don’t listen to office gossip. It’s nothing more than hearsay that someone is using WFH to pretend to work but play with their baby (by playing with, I assume you mean mothering/fathering) and you couldn’t have been that busy yourself if you were eavesdropping on a conversation you were not involved in for over an hour.

The first part of your advice has been helpful thanks. The comment about the mothering of the child was made to me by the toxic colleague who came up to my desk to have a go about the email I sent about what I will be helping with and what is their responsibility.