The Toxic Boss

Tag: relationships

  • “You’re Doing Great” Is Not Feedback

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    “You’re doing great.” It sounds supportive.Encouraging, even. But in a lot of workplaces, it’s the most useless sentence you can hear. Because it usually appears when nothing is going to change. Praise Without Progress You hear it in one-to-ones.You hear it in performance reviews.You hear it right before a conversation ends. “You’re doing great. Keep…

  • The Day You Realise They Never Intended to Keep You

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    There’s a moment in some jobs where the illusion quietly collapses. Nothing dramatic happens.No argument.No HR meeting. Just a small, almost forgettable interaction that makes everything click. And once it does, you realise something uncomfortable: They never planned for you to stay. The Long-Term Talk That Never Happens Think back. How many times have you…

  • You’re Not “Hard to Manage”… You’re Just Hard to Exploit

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    There’s a label managers love to use when an employee stops playing along. “Difficult.”“Challenging.”“Hard to manage.” It usually appears right after you do something unforgivable — like asking for clarity, questioning priorities, or noticing that expectations keep changing while rewards never do. Let’s be clear: you didn’t suddenly become difficult.You just stopped being convenient. When…

  • The Moment You Realise You’re the Only One Who Cares About Doing Things Right

    The Moment You Realise You’re the Only One Who Cares About Doing Things Right

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    There’s a moment in every corporate career when you realise you are the only person in the room who cares about doing things properly. Not quickly. Not cheaply. Not in a way that makes leadership smile at a dashboard. But properly. It hits you slowly, then all at once. You’re in yet another meeting where…

  • The Meeting That Could Have Been the Solution (But Never Was)

    The Meeting That Could Have Been the Solution (But Never Was)

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    Some workplaces run on caffeine. Others run on fear. But toxic workplaces? They run on meetings. Endless, soul sucking, calendar filling meetings. Every problem, no matter how urgent, somehow gets delayed until the next scheduled call. Systems are crashing? “Let’s put time in the diary.” Customers are leaving in droves? “We’ll review that in next…

  • The Corporate Ghosting Epidemic: When Companies Go Silent After Squeezing You Dry

    The Corporate Ghosting Epidemic: When Companies Go Silent After Squeezing You Dry

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    You know the feeling. You’ve just wrapped up a massive project, hit every ridiculous deadline they threw at you, worked late, sacrificed weekends, and maybe even bailed your manager out of yet another crisis. You sit back for a moment thinking, “Maybe now I’ll get some recognition.” But instead of a thank-you, you get… silence.…