The regular line of work and employee exploitation keeps blurring 4 out of 5 days a week. The company is clearly okay with a toxic work culture. The manager, starting with L, who is the pillar to the core of the problem, is known for passive bullying, promising overdelivery with an undermanned team, and outright micromanagement. Instead of addressing this, the upper management turns a blind eye as they say this workplace proudly supports people who give in their all for the company, which directly means elimiating any personal time left in our lives. It’s a place where speaking up is risky and only results in being singled out.
What makes things worse is that certain clients are in cahoots with the top management, contributing to the cutthroat environment. Being on the “right side” of this circle is what seems to matter, and if you’re not, you’re just sidelined or singled out. Teamwork and collaboration are going down day by day because of toxic mannerism breeding more toxic mindsets in employees who are slowly slipping into burnout and putting pressure on their underlings, as they are forced to work even on off days and holidays. This toxic behaviour by the manager actively encourages gossip which would actively breed politics.
Leaves are another big issue here. Even when you’re within the company’s policies, taking time off is often met with scrutiny, questioning, or outright denial. And it goes beyond that—they’ll actually use your legitimate leaves as a way to threaten you, suggesting that time off will hurt your promotion prospects or directly impact your performance reviews. It's like a school, a boarding school with micromanging warden, suffocating. No! my sickness or diarrhea doesn't inform me a day or a week prior before entering my life to spread the explosive greenery in life.
On a serious note, it’s like they’re setting you up to fail. Never knew people of Bengaluru supported and are putting up with this toxic work culture.
