I recently left my company to take a new job elsewhere and, as I was attending my first staff meeting with my new team, I realized I had developed some pretty unhealthy mindsets from my previous team. Some examples of the "chronic pain" I had grown accustomed to: - Director told us he "doesn't give a shit" whether we work from the office or at home but manager sent our team a warning email when our team started averaging less than 3 days in the office per week - Manager tells our team on multiple occasions "if you aren't asking questions I'm going to assume you know everything already." Once, I asked him to clarify an acronym and his response was "dude, you should know this" - Every project has a deadline of ASAP - Manager is non-technical but frequently accuses business stakeholders of not understanding data or logic, and calling them out on their own requirements - Manager brags about coming from Amazon and about how they measure week-over-week, month-over-month, quarter-over-quarter, and year-over-year productivity in everyone. Wants to create the same system for our team and our stakeholders and business partners - Manager insists on being included on every meeting for every project and often dominates the conversation - One of our consultants worked on our team for 3 months and our manager tried to stop her from changing teams by telling her he was going to ask her managers to make her stay - Our manager constantly promised our data scientist that she would be getting data science projects "soon" and instead gave her more and more dashboard projects - When our data scientist tried to transfer teams internally, our manager pressured her to withdraw her application. When she burned out and gave a two week notice to quit without a job lined up, our manager and director pressured her into changing her mind and offered her unpaid time off instead - Our manager created a daily recurring stand-up and hyperfixates on everyone's problems, trying to deep dive and find solutions on the spot and causing stand-ups to frequently last 90 minutes when they were scheduled for 30 - In my (weekly) 1:1 with my manager when he asked how things were going, I told him I was comfortable with my workload and progressing normally. His response was "sounds like we need to find more things for you to do then" - Manager also has bi-weekly 1:1s where he expects presentations about our progress towards our yearly goals and expects to see progress on all goals simultaneously (we all have around 5 different goals, each) - Instead of PIPs or disciplining low performers, low performers get smaller workloads and easier projects. I was once re-assigned to a project that was 5 months in progress and stakeholders had been told it was almost done and ready for executive demonstration, only to find out 99% of the output was incorrect and 70% of the code had to be completely re-written I could go on with more examples but that's the idea. The toxicity manifested within our team by people not attending meetings anymore, stakeholders working around us, and everyone just generally avoiding each other or staying tightly within their clique. That was ultimately when I decided to start looking for new jobs. There isn't really a point to this post other than as an outlet and writing out my trauma but I like to think the experience has made me stronger as a person. I cherish a "boring" job now but I still get uncomfortable when I have even a few minutes of down time in the office and I struggle to trust my new director when they encourage me to leave early or push things off to next week. #tmobile
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OP, which company did this happen in?
Seems like irreversible damage to your well-being. You should consider lawyer up and sue your previous employer
Ex-amazon leaders spread their toxicity everywhere!
Same here. Hopefully overtime will get used to not being treated like shit.