Cliques

[Yppej]

Yes, because I received unemployment insurance if suitable work is offered to me I must take it. The environment at my last job was probably worse, as the nastiness went way beyond raised voices.

[iris lilies]

I just cannot imagine professional HR people at my former workplace warning new employees off because there are social cliques. It is such an unprofessional, subjective way to describe the workplace. I might, however, in an interview for this company ask the question " how would you deal with workloads that seem unfair? "

It is a management problem when workloads are not distributed evenly, which is the problem the OP describes. I guess the management has chosen to accept this as a ongoing fact of work there.