#toxicenvironment

I'm at the point where a pay cut sounds very much worth it if it means leaving this toxic place. I can't take much more of this culture.

This is hands down the worst place I’ve ever worked for, and it’s not because of the job itself. The work is fine, but the way employees are treated is brutal and intentional. Management acts like paying people is some kind of personal insult. Everything here is designed to grind you down while pretending that’s just business as usual.

I find my attitude toward others is off the radar lately. Im beyond sick of the same bs day in and day out. No accountability, the expectation that I should do your work for you, watching slackers get promoted while good staff are targeted and terminated. Trying to hold out as long as possible cause the job market is trash but this place has become so toxic and seems almost intentional

I'm telling you, this job is harmful. You need to plan your exit. Dedicate some time to networking and applying elsewhere. Otherwise, this place will ruin your mental and physical health.

Losing this job doesn't scare me like it used to. The environment has gotten so bad that leaving might be a relief. The benefits are poor and the culture is toxic, so what am I really protecting?

Intel management uses the constant threat of layoffs to keep control and again and again demand more output. It forces people into silos, looking out only for their own survival. They assume we'll obey out of fear of losing our jobs, and, sadly, too often they're right about that.

It's painfully clear that the culture here openly rewards people who live and breathe this company. If you have family commitments or outside interests, well tough luck, you're at a clear disadvantage. The unspoken expectation is to be always on and available. If this is not true for you, consider yourself lucky.

Verizon has conditioned me for panic. An unexpected invite from my manager? My stomach drops. A sudden team call? I assume it's bad news. The constant low-level te---r is the new normal.

They're not relying only on layoffs anymore, they're just making the package worse and worse. Reduce a benefit here, increase a cost there. It's passive-aggressive workforce reduction, and it shows what they really think of us.

Inogen has gone through yet another round of layoffs, and at this point it’s hard to describe how broken the culture feels. Leadership appears reactive rather than strategic, relying on short-term patchwork instead of a clear plan.

From my perspective, employees are not genuinely valued or trusted, and decisions are made with little regard for the long-term impact on people or morale. Confidence in leadership has steadily eroded, and many no longer believe what they are told about the company’s direction.

If you begin seeing overly positive messaging about the company, I would encourage healthy skepticism. Based on lived experience, those messages have not reflected the reality employees face.

In my opinion, this is a deeply unhealthy place to work. If you are considering joining, my advice is simple: proceed with extreme caution or don’t proceed at all.

Inogen has just gone through another round of layoffs, and it’s deeply disheartening to watch. The issue isn’t only the reductions themselves, but the lack of transparency and humanity surrounding them.

Over time, repeated reassurances about stability have been followed by actions that suggest otherwise, leaving employees anxious and disconnected from leadership. Morale has steadily declined, and trust has eroded.

In my opinion, this is not a healthy place to work. I would also caution people against placing too much trust in leadership messaging, as it has often failed to align with what ultimately happens. If you’re considering joining, I’d strongly recommend proceeding with caution or looking elsewhere.

For every one part time hire belk is loosing five part time associates

For every one full time hire belk is loosing three full time associate/key holder/lead

For every one manager hire belk is loosing two managers

I've hit my limit. The environment is so toxic and the stress is constant. At this point, a layoff with severance sounds like a gift, a paid ticket out of this hellhole. I just need an escape.

I know this is not layoff related, so feel free to ignore it, but my current role and environmental in the BGCO feels toxic. I want to look at other BGCO roles and was thinking about the advanced solutions team. Does anyone have any insight into that team or know if they are considered a part of Dans future plan? Are they likely to have less layoff impacts because of what they do? Is the environment a good one?

Anyone?

The Scharf-simping nincompoops referred to as "managers" seem to spend a lot of time on this page. You can tell who they are because they are the ones posting butt-hurt comments either defending the company or launching personal attacks. They get defensive when people call out their gutless corruption on a public forum. Working at WF is bad enough; enforcing WF's corrupt, ever-changing personnel policies makes you complicit.

I used to be proud to work here. Now I'm embarrassed to say were I work, considering everything. I hate this place.

I am not the OP but I agree, this needs to stay on top. The original is posted multiple times below. With nearly 15,000 views, it is definitely resonating with personnel. You don't have to be in HSE to know exactly what this poster is talking about.

I have worked for three companies before this one. Each had its flaws, but each, in its own way, understood something basic about decency. When I came to CVX, my fourth, I was told, again and again, that the culture was different. Healthier. Kinder. A place where people stayed because they were valued.

I believed it. For a long time, I wanted to.

Six years in, I can say without hesitation that this is the most hostile environment I have ever survived and I started on a rig in Midland, TX.

What makes it dangerous isn’t incompetence or chaos, it’s intention. Everything here is calculated. Smiles are worn like disguises. Praise is given only when it can be reclaimed later as leverage. If your work is good, someone else will quietly attach their name to it. If your ideas land too well, they stop being yours almost immediately.
And if you are noticed, truly noticed, by the wrong person, especially your boss, the consequences are swift and surgical. Threats are not confronted; they are dismantled. Slowly. Invisibly. By the time you realize what’s happening, your reputation has already been rewritten without you in the room.

Gossip is the real currency here. Cruelty, its favorite language. Personal lives are treated as public property, mined for weaknesses. An affair. A secret. A truth shared with the wrong person. Even something small, once discovered, is inflated until it becomes unmanageable. Stories grow teeth. Context disappears. Suddenly, survival feels like something you have to apologize for.

This is not a place where mistakes are forgiven. It is a place where they are archived.
I used to think cultures were defined by mission statements and values posted on walls. Now I know better. Culture is what happens in whispers, in meetings you aren’t invited to, in credit you never receive, in silence when you need protection.

If this place has taught me anything, it’s that the most dangerous environments are the ones that insist they are safe.

I had to vent I am finished.

Over the past several years, it’s become clear that my team has been operating under the wrong organizational structure. As a result, many of the processes we support have been sustained only through workarounds created by clinics and patients themselves. It’s difficult to see this department remaining viable in the long term if things continue in their current direction.

Leadership has played a significant role in the decline of the team. The current manager has not provided meaningful support or advocacy, and decisions often feel disconnected from the needs of the staff. The supervisory team seems more focused on protecting leadership than addressing ongoing issues, which has created a sense of frustration and confusion.

I genuinely miss my previous supervisor, who provided positivity and encouragement her departure highlighted just how stressful the environment has become. Since then, the culture has shifted dramatically, and the workplace has grown increasingly difficult to navigate. After more than seven years here, I’m actively searching for a new opportunity. The environment has become too toxic to remain in, especially after recent leadership changes. I wish the best to anyone else who is also looking for a fresh start.

This place post RIF has become a toxic nightmare. Where does upper management get off threatening employees with being fired on the daily and refer to us as mentally handicapped and cant get the job done. Upper management needs to realize sitting in a office everyday and sending passive agressive emails does not do anything besides makes us want to do less. This place is toxic and is a joke only a matter of time before we are sold or the government bails us out.

Dont trust anyone do what u can and move on this place is crumbling from within. All the executives suites fault but everyone pays for there clueless ideas.

People make sure you document everything during conversations with managers. It’s obvious they are making it uncomfortable for all of us and they do not want to pay out severance. Annual reviews are taking place shortly and they need to dish out a % of NIs. This is how they start putting the wheels in motion for terminating for cause. Document everything!!! Ask your manager to put items in writing!!! Protect yourself. 2026 is going to be a very challenging year for all of us. They simply want a toxic work environment so we leave and they keep the money.

We are being so micromanaged now it’s unbearable.

Is there a way to report such cases to anyone without any serious consequences???

It's frustrating how managers are blatantly using these tactics.

I am in a similar situation where this new person who have no access to system whatsoever, is suddenly been asked to "take the lead"

It's a con game. The company has no incentive to care about your feelings. Any and all morale boosting is just managing useful distractions. They dangle carrots, or vague promises they have no intention of keeping, or soft reassurances of your job security only to stand there at your desk as you cry and put your belongings into the banker's box they've graciously provided to you.

Just like the managers that pit their employees against one another, it's all about keeping you occupied so you don't notice the water creeping up to your ankles on the sinking ship. Go rearrange those deck chairs, this Titanic will look presentable!

Just stop. Leave. No notice, no new job lined up. Do whatever you can to expedite the implosion of this company by removing yourself from their clutches. Go sling coffee, bag groceries, start an ebay reseller gig, anything but continuing to enable your abuser. They won't realize anything until they are forced to and when they only have overseas cheap labor to depend upon, it'll really be fun to watch this place crater. If India wants these jobs so bad, let them have 'em. Watch what happens.

Go. Be happy. Be anywhere but here, your mental health will be better, and you can leave this bucket of tu-ds in the rearview mirror.

There are so many enablers on my team and so much ridiculous office politics that bad behavior seems encouraged. Previous managers weren’t much better, and overall competence has been lacking. How these people keep getting hired and promoted is beyond me. You’d think any corporation would prefer managers who boost performance, not ones who infest teams with toxicity and waste.

What is the point of putting so much pressure on us with unrealistic expectations, passive-aggressive management, cultivated toxicity, and highly flexible performance grading unless they are trying to force us out? It seems like far too much effort just to keep us “in line.” If attrition is the goal, why not just move forward with it instead of making the workplace miserable?

I left in 2022 because I couldn't take the hostile work environment anymore. Are things still the same or have there been any improvements? I don't know why I'm suddenly curious nearly three years later. Call it New Year-induced nostalgia or whatever, I guess.

In a toxic environment, poison is gold.

It went from being a place where people actually collaborated to one where everyone is just looking out for themselves. The leadership at the top seems to have no real plan or vision to fix anything. There's no trust left, and the constant negativity makes it impossible to do your best work. I really miss how it used to be, and it's sad to see what it's become.

The Dell culture has taken a turn for the absolute worst. I’ve never seen anything like it. They allow complete disrespect go unanswered by HR. Breed a toxic and narcissistic management environment. Allow for people to just sh!t all over each other without consequence. Their management is ignorant, insulting and arrogant. I’m waiting for a meeting at some point to just break out into a brawl as people are getting to that point.

Lately I keep seeing coworkers walk out for jobs that pay noticeably less (I guess this job market only allows for that), and that says everything about where things stand. The nonstop tension around layoffs has pushed people to a point where any exit feels better than staying. No one even talks about matching their old salaries anymore. The environment has gotten so heavy that most of us just want out before the next wave hits.

They’ve made the conditions so difficult that we either leave on our own or stay completely miserable, and at this point it feels entirely by design. They’re not even subtle or creative about it anymore. What’s next?

Thanks to ESRO, all Optum tech teams have to adopt a CloudFlare firewall as the entry point to their applications. As such, this company has now become a single point of failure for all of Optum. If they are down, not only is our website down, but all internal and provider facing applications.

Guess which company went down again today for the second time in the past few weeks?

But of course, im "not a team player" and not "aligned with strategic direction" for raising concerns about vendor lock in and huge increases in systemic risk to the company.

Company is finished with the layoffs. Company is done with mistreating its employees. Although your manager or director still might be an a-s.

company is a real nightmare to work in.

i don't see how they ca n avoid layoffs after the meltdown

Welcome to BNY Mellon, where corporate communication is less about informing employees and more about testing their tolerance for absurdity. Think of it as a daily improv show where the punchline is always the same: we don’t believe you.

At the top of this spectacle sits Robin Vince, delivering pronouncements with the solemnity of a statesman and the substance of a clown balloon. His memos promise transformation, transparency, and trust, but associates know these are just corporate Mad Libs—insert buzzword, ignore reality. If they say “transformation,” translate it to “chaos.” If they say “transparency,” read it as “fog machine.” The safest approach is to laugh first, then check if your department still exists.

HR, Public Relations and James L. serve as the Ministry of Spin, ensuring every announcement glows with positivity so artificial even Eliza would blush. “BNY Mellon is thriving!” they declare, while associates quietly check their workloads and wonder if thriving means "dodging HR land mines" or “running on fumes.” Employees now treat official communications like parody scripts, reading them aloud in dramatic voices for comic relief.

Then there are the Directors and wannabees who rush to LinkedIn to applaud these corporate fairy tales. Their posts are the digital equivalent of clapping at a bad magic trick like a trained harbor seal: “Amazing leadership!” they gush, while everyone else mutters, “You do realize the rabbit was stuffed in the hat the whole time, right?” These cheerleaders don’t inspire confidence; they inspire memes.

Inside the company, two realities coexist like parallel universes. In one, associates slog through toxic culture, opaque decision-making, and a daily grind that feels less like a Fortune 500 firm and more like a reality TV show where no one wins. In the other, leaders announce breakthroughs, cultural transformations, and “authentic transparency” with the confidence of actors who forgot the audience already read the spoilers. The result is cognitive dissonance so bad and so intense employees could qualify for dual citizenship: one in the land of lived experience, the other in the fantasy realm of executive spin.

Distrust has become so pervasive that employees now play a game called “Spot the Lie.” Every new communication is dissected for euphemisms and omissions. “Restructuring” means layoffs. “Efficiency” means budget cuts. “Innovation” means someone discovered Teams has GIFs. The prize for winning? A sense of smug validation and the knowledge that you’re not crazy—the memo is.

BNY Mellon’s leaders may believe they’re shaping perception, but in reality they’ve cultivated a culture where disbelief is the default setting. Credibility isn’t just low; it’s subterranean. Employees don’t ask, “Is this true?” They ask, “How false is it, and how quickly will it collapse under scrutiny?” Cynicism has become the lingua franca, the coping mechanism, and the unofficial brand identity.

In the end, BNY Mellon has achieved something remarkable: it has turned corporate communication into performance art, a theater of the absurd where every announcement is greeted not with applause but with laughter, sighs, and sarcastic memes. The Executive Committee may think they’re leading a financial institution with great vision, alignment and execution, but associates know the truth: they’re trapped in a long-running satire, and the punchline never changes—we don’t believe you.

If you’ve been crushed by the toxicity of this company - know you aren’t alone. This is a culturally unhealthy organization ruled by politics and very bad decisions at the top to middle of house. The management here is a total joke, ruled by their own self interests. Share your own stories of how messed up your time at this company has been below. 👏🏽

I hate the people here. Fu--ing rude and obnoxious.