Have a meeting with my toxic manager and our HR today. Most of our team is looking for new work because of the toxic positivity and pressure from our manager.
Manager has what basically boils down to a no friendship rule in the workplace between colleagues and has vaguely threatened me before because I am friends with a colleague from before working there.
When asking “how are you” no one is allowed to reply with anything less than “great!”
On Thursday during our 'motivation' meeting, we were all told that our best isn't good enough.
My colleague and friend when asking for a Friday afternoon off to go to a funeral was asked “why would you want to go to a funeral” and told “this conversation is making me feel like vomiting”.
Another colleague was given extra-curricular work to read 10 pages of a self-help book every day (sourced at her own cost of course) and when she didn't one evening because her cousin had passed away 2 days before, the boss told her “that's not good enough”. She was too scared to ask for a day off to go to the funeral and missed her cousin's funeral.
I am the only person in our department who has spoken to HR. Everyone is too scared of the boss, or scares to lose their jobs.
Meeting is at 11am. Wish me luck. Might be walking away without a job.