How to deal with toxic leadership during company layoffs

“I've been at my property for 5 years. As the assistant manager, I did very well. I won awards, I was asked to travel to other properties to help out, and I was loved by the residents.”source ↗

“Everything immediately became incredibly difficult. Huge problems that were previously ignored by management now became my responsibility. I did the absolute best I could. I genuinely cared about the community, the residents and my staff. But I had no assistance from my corporate office.”source ↗

“I was juggling 400 units and one disaster after another. Four months ago my maintenance supervisor quit. Since then I have been doing that job as well. I wasn't allowed to order anything above $200. I wasn't allowed to make any quick decisions without permission. It was like I had been set up to fail.”source ↗

“This morning I was fired as soon as I unlocked my office. I'm so hurt and lost. There's no similar job openings where I live so I'm applying for everything. I've never been fired before and I still don't really understand why it happened.”source ↗

“That layoff speech, as a former employee (resigned before the layoffs), made me absolutely sick to my stomach.”source ↗

“Last straw was 2.5x my quota for no apparent reason.”source ↗

“We US workers are trapped by our need for health insurance. Nervous, shitty times.”source ↗

“I’ve been the Director of Development for a research think tank for the last year and a half. It’s been the most challenging role of my career, and so far I’ve only met half my fundraising goal”source ↗

“The ED wants me focused on raising general operating funds, but constantly redirects my attention to his new program ideas, and has even redirected some of our existing general operating funding to cover spontaneous projects needs.”source ↗

“I am constantly anxious about being laid off having not met my fundraising goal, while also constantly frustrated by the lack of resources and shits-given for donor relationships by leadership.”source ↗

“we have an annual Board meeting, and after completing all my materials, the ED let me know “I wont be needed there” and to refund my travel expenses.”source ↗

“Less than 90 days into my new job, I am questioning whether I am allowed to text a volunteer, “Great job.””source ↗

“My manager is a first-time people manager. She calls me the “numbers girl,” and she is right.”source ↗

“Then I was told to step away from the numbers and focus on relationships.”source ↗

“Now I want to quit tomorrow. Full stop. I don’t deserve this misery.”source ↗

“Ya van 3 semanas y de verdad me arrepiento de estar ahí. Todo está súper desorganizado y siento que cada vez que intento contactar a mi jefa o a otros coordinadores es como hablar con mi ex (nunca responden).”source ↗

“Pero mientras tanto no tengo ni idea de qué hacer. No sé cómo llamar su atención.”source ↗

“How do you ‘pretend’ to be in a job at less than 90 days, meeting new donors, supporting the team. And look for a job elsewhere? I have done absolutely incredible things in my life, but I don’t know how to do this.”source ↗

“Yes, this happened to me. I could have written this. I worked 12 hour days and did make our goal. I’ve never been more stressed in my life.”source ↗

“Feeling like things are getting pretty precarious… New CIO, new Ops Manager, freshly promoted Quality Control and Architecture Managers, all of them fully aboard the AI hype train, and things are breaking left, right, and centre.”source ↗

“The pay is too good to walk away from, but the trajectory feels bad. Anyone been through something similar? Would appreciate any advice.”source ↗

“I've been working as IT support for under 5 years - and I'm burnt out.”source ↗

“I'm the one getting the beating and push back with people on this”source ↗

“these annoying folks are just making shit up for vengeance”source ↗

“I don't even want to do this anymore, i think I just want the bills paid and do something else.”source ↗

“It's created a lot of insecurity and confusion across the business.”source ↗

“The pattern at the moment is promises of growth and opportunity one week, followed by talks of cost-cutting and redundancies being announced the next.”source ↗

“During an all-company meeting this week, I asked (anonymously) how leadership planned to address the breakdown of trust between them and employees.”source ↗

“I'm afraid if … there is a breakdown of trust, there is no way I can rebuild it and I would ask you openly to please volunteer yourself to leave the business”source ↗

“I had enough of them in my career that I started writing a screen play for a show called Peter’s Principal about a student who goes to a school lead by incompetent adults.”source ↗

“they are so, so wretched, and they spout inane statements in the same way my students do.”source ↗

“After all of the incompetent principals that I had, writing a horror story would have re-traumatized me and undone years of therapy.”source ↗

“There were so many bad ones. The one who was effectively illiterate and tried to fight a staff member, the one who was an alcoholic and coke addict, the one who slept with multiple staff members, and more.”source ↗