Toxic Workplace Survival Tips | How to Cope with a Toxic Work Environment

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Toxic Workplace Survival Tips // You’re in a toxic work environment, and while you would love to walk in, quit your job and never see your toxic boss or toxic coworkers again, the reality is that isn’t always the immediate option - even if it’s the inevitable and necessary way of dealing with a toxic work environment. And unfortunately, until your toxic job exit strategy is complete, you have to cope with the toxic manager, and the stress and anxiety at work that toxic companies create. But there is more you can do than simply survive a toxic work environment - you can find a way to thrive through it with a few simple strategies. In this video, I’m diving into how to cope with a toxic work environment. Focusing on these things will help you deal with a toxic boss, dealing with toxic coworkers, and helping you get through the experience of working with a toxic company.

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More videos to help navigate a toxic workplace:

TOXIC WORK ENVIRONMENT: 14 Signs Your Workplace is Toxic (and How to Cope)

TOXIC COWORKERS | How to Deal with Toxic People at Work

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(Playlist) Dealing with Difficult Coworkers

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[JenniferBrick]

Have you survived a toxic workplace before? What tip would you add?

[saxenas]

To answer the question: "Are there any normal people out there anymore?"
"Of course there are sweety. They're the ones being used, overlooked, bullied, and chased out of companies"

[Rinyotsu]

I put in my resignation today and I'm leaving my toxic career. I firmly believe call center is toxic for everyone.

[CaptainSpalding]

Coworkers are NOT your friends. Do not go out with them. Dont go to a dive bar with them. It will only be used against you.

[picklespip]

When I set boundaries, people look at me like I am crazy

[FreyaGem]

Though I'm still at my toxic job for the moment and DYING to leave, I will say one thing that helps me. I stopped talking to my toxic boss about my emotions, under any circumstances (he is a textbook narcissist). This keeps me safe from many of his emotional manipulations. He still hates me because I stand up to him, but he doesn't know what to do with me anymore, so he mostly leaves me alone now. --I so agree with you, too, Jennifer, that toxic workplaces can really wither away your confidence and affect your job search ability. It's so frustrating when you wake up in a good mood most days and come home from work just feeling pathetic, unmotivated, and exhausted. It's an uphill battle to stay at a place that does that to you. I can't do it much longer. I'd rather be broke.

[thenewyorkcitizen]

A former assistant manager who was toxic and gossipy AF used to ask me why I didn't talk about myself or personal life at work. I told her the company didn't pay me to talk but paid me to work. Even she laughed. Never give them any info. Keep it polite, neutral and keep it moving.

[Lannec]

One thing that bothers me is that a lot of people conflate office gossip with the essential venting and support we might need from a coworker or two to survive a toxic workplace. So many orgs will see you confiding in someone and you get labeled a troublemaker when in truth, you are just trying to get through the day without losing your mind.

[reginacarr]

Every job I have had over the past 8 years had been toxic in one way or another…If you set boundaries, they cross them. Being told I am the problem for asking questions. Management will do nothing to remedy a bullying problem, you told you are being overly sensitive. I have had dread & anxiety about going into my job so much, that I would cry the entire weekend, then be throwing up Monday morning. This is not right or acceptable, yet I am told suck it up and deal with it! It is wrong and hurtful… know you are not alone, and hang in there as best you can until you can leave!!

[irhinesoriano]

For me, what I did is to keep my personal life, private. Because you will always seek comfort from your coworkers and you will only be disappointed because they're toxic.

[Dark_Abyss]

Anyone else’s manager give them mad anxiety because they are scared their boss will find something to be mean to you about because he’s in a bad mood??

[driverg]

Boundary setting is probably the best hint. Your personal life is absolutely none of your BPD manager's business. Whatever you extra information you give your BPD / NPD manager will get used against you

[wendywalters]

I swear, I'm at work 15 mins early everyday, to sit in my cat and watch these videos. It really helps me to get in the right frame of mind 😌. Thank you!

[davidclark]

A bad tree, cannot bear good fruit! A good tree doesn't bear bad fruit! I love your channel.

[arminda]

having to rewatch this video again for the second time this week lol I cant wait to walk into my next blessing.

[asadb]

the risk of toxicity is probably why i recommend keep applying even if you don't want a job. and even start taking interviews. and then leave when a better offer comes around. life is too short to deal with toxic employer/workplace. i didn't know how toxic my first corporate job was until i left. it wasn't the straightforward toxic it was the slow nagging that can become annoying. for example there were small almost negligible errors in a spreadsheet that if my intern brought to me, i would just fix them myself and let the intern know to fix next time. no my boss called me into meetings and made huge deal that would hurt self confidence. you can live with it but its annoying. sometimes you need another pair of eyes to look at your work.

[budad]

Toxic work environment, get out of there friends, even if its not targeted at you it could be one day, don't support or be part of a toxic work environment.

[birthinfluenceembrace]

You said it. Leaving a toxic situation is the best way. Staying only magnifies and let's you tolerate BS from everyone.

[NotWhoYouThinkThisBe]

If you walk away from a conversation with someone at work feeling totally confused (this is a big one) OR feeling way "lower" than them (less smart, less cultured, less sophisticated, less worthy, less important, less powerful, less capable, etc), ASSUME they're toxic and limit contact with them. It's more about going with how you feel than what you think, if you want to build a "radar" system for this junk. I say "junk" because people who use tactics to lower the esteem of someone or intentionally confuse them are literally garbage people. I don't care how much money they have, if they can't treat people right and see them as humans, they belong in a trash colony among their own type. 🙂

[jaclynh]

Most workplaces are toxic... I work in one that the boss does not like conflict and panders to the office bully. When she is not around it is much more peaceful. He himself is self-absorbed and only cares to talk about himself and what he thinks and wants you to agree with him. People complain about each other to each other. I am consistently feeling on edge bc people come to me to complain and it drains the hit out of me. I am unsure of what exactly to say to make them stop. I need something fast and simple to say bc people have small attention spans. Could you please do a video on that, easy phrases to use with toxic coworkers/bosses.