Posted on 10/15/2025 12:35:04 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
A recent survey from Monster reveals a disturbing trend in the American workforce: an increasing number of employees say they are facing toxic work environments, with detrimental effects on their mental health.
The latest Mental Health in the Workplace survey conducted by Monster paints a grim picture of the current state of American workplaces. The survey, which polled 1,100 workers, found that an alarming 80 percent of respondents described their workplace as toxic, a significant increase from the 67 percent reported just a year prior. This toxic environment is taking a toll on employees’ mental well-being, with 71 percent of workers rating their mental health as either poor (40 percent) or fair (31 percent).
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You do realize, right, that HR departments work for management, not for the worker? No, they are not your friends.
I’d guess most of the toxicity comes from the fact that wages in the U.S. have been stagnant for a decades. Most working folk for can’t even afford an old beater home and the rents they’re paying are as toxic as the work environments. Kind of a no-brainer.
It’s call work, that’s why they pay you to be there.
“My boss wants me to work. My boss wants to see deliverables. My boss won’t let use the company computer to play games and watch porn. This place is SO toxic.”
Today’s generation has no idea what an honest days work means. We are lucky that automation and AI came along just in time to replace this do nothing generation. The fault belongs with parents who have kids only for benefits and tax deductions and schools/universities that do nothing to prepare children to be productive employees.
What a bunch of pansy-asses. Good grief.
In my very long career in the tech industry, I found that the top 5 causes of a toxic work environment are:
1. A bad manager who can’t be fired and knows it.
2. A bad manager who can’t be fired and knows it.
3. A bad manager who can’t be fired and knows it.
4. A bad manager who can’t be fired and knows it.
5. A bad manager who can’t be fired and knows it.
Add in short staffing, Didn't Earn It (DEI), Wokism, transsexual ideology, Post 'Dilbert Principle' korporate behavior, and the work "environment" has become absolutely toxic.
You wouldn't be allowed to subject prisoners to most workplaces without running afoul of the law.
“Where did you work, church office?”
ROTFLOL!
Ahhh, memories....
Lesson learned perfectly - there are none who go through the exposure to tear gas who doubt that their gas mask works.
When I was working back when “Tailhook” happened which started all this HR BS, sensitivity and sexual harassment training crap, work was fun. Having a beer at lunch, jokes of all kinds, office parties where you partied your ass off but worked your ass off even more. Nobody was “offended” or if they were they didn’t join in or listen.. nothing wrong with that but they didn’t go to HR and whine like little bitches.
I never stopped until 2018 when I retired. Work has to be fun or it’s work. Many HR complaints but nothing stuck because I had examples on all the whiners... basically if they pushed it, I’d counter punch so things got dropped.
Couldn’t imagine working now after the COVID crap. I’d probably be in prison but I’d do had fun getting there.
“You do realize, right, that HR departments work for management, not for the worker? No, they are not your friends.”
yep ... and i personally saw HR only do two positive things in my decades working for the GOCO;
1. a black employee quit kinda working, and ran off the rails with black chips on his shoulders, and started to make all kinds of racist accusations that were completely baseless ... the head of HR was black and because of that she was able to fire the black guy without legal repercussions at an institution that was otherwise almost impossible to fire anyone ...
2. one of my bosses was so toxic, people quit and cited chapter and verse of the toxicity during the exit interviews and others who stayed complained bitterly to HR about BS annual reviews that were nothing but vengeful stabs in the back, and because of that, the boss was eventually demoted to “special projects” with no direct reports ... HR naturally was only worried about possible lawsuits ...
🤔Is the workplace toxic because of hostile management, or because of having to work with lazy incompetent coworkers demanding that others share or honor their mental illness? Or is the the generation of entitled who never learned the concept of work and responsibility considering the workplace toxic for expecting them to pull their share of the load?
Last week xer was she/her this week xe was he/him.
Next week they say they are coming in as a giant rabbit.
Ah yes. Either 'promotion' to a position where the office is a broom closet with no direct reports, or 'special projects'. The sad part is, so much damage is done beforehand.
Hopefully the 'special projects' were of very short duration.
I think at some level American management knows that they're abusing employees in chasing bonuses, which is why the pressure is there to employ slave labor in other countries, or bring in replacement labor via H1-b.
No, it has always rhymed with wymen since the 1960s. Easily led by the central State and easily offended by masculinity/patriarchal Western Civ culture.
A result of women in the workplace.
I was self-employed for a while. Talk about a toxic work environment...
…. everyone gets a trophy for playing sports just because they showing up.
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