Toxic culture damages mental health and motivation
Pros
• You’ll learn how workplace politics actually works. • Builds patience because support from management is rare. • Great place to understand favoritism in corporate life. • Teaches you how mental peace is more important than salary. • You become emotionally strong after surviving the pressure and blame culture. • Helps you realize how important respectful communication is in a workplace. • You’ll definitely learn how not to manage people in the future.
Cons
I joined expecting growth and a healthy work environment, but this turned out to be one of the most toxic workplaces I’ve experienced. The culture completely affected my mental peace. The way people speak, especially some HRs and managers, is extremely rude and disrespectful. Instead of supporting employees, they blame people for everything and make the environment stressful every single day. What hurt the most was the favoritism. Managers mostly support people they are personally close to, and if they don’t like you or can’t connect with you personally, your work life becomes very difficult no matter how hard you work. In many situations, employees are blamed for mistakes made by management itself. The hiring process is also frustrating. They take multiple rounds of interviews, give candidates hope, discuss everything in detail, and then suddenly lowball during salary discussions saying the expected salary ‘doesn’t make sense.’ It honestly feels like they waste weeks or even months of people’s time. Resignation is another issue. Even after deciding to leave, the process becomes unnecessarily difficult till the very end instead of handling things professionally. I stayed for around a year, and honestly, I lost my peace, motivation, and mental health during that period. This is my personal experience, and I genuinely wouldn’t recommend joining unless you are ready to deal with politics, pressure, favoritism, and a very unhealthy culture.