Hi,
I think my workplace is toxic and I hate it. I don't want to identify it incase anyone from there is in here, but it's a medium sized team, mix of male and female but mostly female.
I've worked in loads of different places and industries, and this feels like the most toxic place I've ever worked. All people seem to do is bitch about each other behind their backs and I'm sick of it, what can I do apart from ignore it? Why can't everyone just be kind? Is it that difficult?
Eg there was the work Christmas gathering, it was in the pub and then on to other activities. I didn't go as I was unwell, but a colleague said to me yesterday that they were all bitching about different people on the team, and then they moved on to this guy who hasn't worked with us for long, slagging him off about various different things, then he turned up at the pub with them!! They knew he was coming but they thought they would chat sh1t about him first?!
It makes me feel really paranoid about what they are saying about me, and I hate it. Are all workplaces this bad?