Pros
Good place to learn what a bad job looks like.
You'll meet some great colleagues who will leave in a year with you.
Cons
Ambition is met with resistance and training opportunities are shut down.
Toxic leadership exhibits the following:
- Verbal Aggression: Mocking, sarcasm, and belittling.
- Humiliation & Shaming: Ridiculing employees in front of colleagues and public shaming disguised as feedback.
- Manipulation & Gaslighting: Telling fabricated stories about employees to colleagues behind their backs. Telling employees they did things that never happened.
- Undermining & Sabotage: Withholding necessary information, setting impossible expectations, and setting employees up for failure.
- Excessive Control: Intense micromanagement, close monitoring of employee activity, and controlling work and personal choices like dress.
- Blame-Shifting: Refusing to take responsibility and blaming employees for their own mistakes or outbursts.