I am really struggling with the atmosphere and dynamic at work. It’s a small business with a manager and supervisor in charge. They are very close and have known each other since childhood. And a team of 8 including myself. Manager and supervisor have created a really toxic culture at work. Pleasant to your face but lots of blame and bitching behind backs. Initially it felt like the rest of the team were a unit who understood this and united in thinking they were both twats but recently it’s become obvious that people are snidely throwing each other under the bus so that they aren’t the ones being slagged off. There is no confidentiality, everyone is gossiped about and there’s almost always somebody who is the pariah of the week before they move onto someone else. Last week I was unable to attend an out of hours event (not compulsory to go but if you don’t it’s frowned upon) so it was my turn and I felt so awkward because it was frosty in work all week.
Due to this and some other factors I am seriously thinking about looking for another job but my skills are limited and the hours work for me atm around my three school age kids.
There’s no point speaking to HR as it’s a small business and all the management piss in the same pot so it would get back to them and make my life even harder.
I would like nothing more than to go off sick and just ponder how I can move forward either with a wfh job or doing something totally different like retraining. Don’t want to give details about the job as it’s a niche business and could be outing but basically I have very few specialist skills - I mostly just do admin work.
I never thought I’d be one to be affected by this mean girls bullshit but it’s actually quite soul destroying to work in it daily. I thought these people were friends at one point but now I have seen things in a whole new light. Wwyd?