Mostly just a vent thread here. I've been a member of these boards since 2006, but now under a new username because my old username can lead back to me. Been working at my current company for nearly a decade. For the first seven years, things looked to be going well. I really loved my job, loved the people I worked with, and was generally considered one of the best.
Then, a few years ago, they shut down the office in my region and, deciding they needed me, I worked from home full time. This is when things started changing. Slowly, over time, a toxic culture took over our HQ. Toxicity so thick, I could smell it from the other side of the country. Like... folks yelling at one another in the office, berating others on conference calls, lack of response to emails, skipping out or walking out of meetings, etc. etc.
Over time, all the best employees left. I was one of the few remaining holdouts. Until this week, when my manager and his manager seemed to silently decide they could pay someone much less to do my job, so ran a hit piece of an annual review where they fudged numbers, turned big project victories into losses because of made up timelines, and set unreasonable goals for this year for me to "earn my reputation back."
This pushed me off the edge. So now I'm gone, and they lost one of their best contributors much sooner than they planned. And I feel really good about it. I don't have anything immediately lined up, but my husband and I don't need my income to thrive, so I'm taking some time to figure out what I'm going to do next.
What I do know is that since I turned in my notice, I sleep much better at night. I can now ignore the toxicity as I wind down my workload. And, for the first time in years, I am looking forward to working outside my house. Because... well... I'm starting to look a bit like my overstuffed couch. :-)