‘No one wants to tell the boss bad news, let alone tell him he’s acting like a jerk.’
‘We all got used to thinking we were inept losers who didn’t really deserve to be paid.’
‘We have too much to do allow the toxic naysayers to control the situation.’
‘A smile or single word of appreciation would have made all the difference.’
‘It’s so unhealthy to bottle up my emotions, but I’m forced to keep my mouth shut.’
‘The man was a controller, a short guy in an expensive suit determined to loom over you.’
‘I could lose my job tomorrow! Without it, I can’t make ends meet. To say the least, I feel stressed out a lot of the time.’
‘I felt totally unappreciated for all the years I had given the company. So I quit with no place to go.’
‘With Frank as CEO, things deteriorated drastically.‘
‘As I looked at the operators sitting in front of me I knew they were thinking, ‘You talk like you’re one of us, but we both know you’re not.’
Source
Gary Chapman, Paul White, and Harold Myra (2014). Rising Above a Toxic Workplace: Taking Care of Yourself in an Unhealthy Environment
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