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How do you deal with a toxic working environment when you can’t quit?

I think I work in a very toxic team. Daily standups are just used to take attendance and publicly shame people in front of the entire team if the manager thinks you are not working hard enough. If the manager is having a bad day, he takes his frustration out on rest of the team. Taunts are very common, you can expect to hear you are incompetent, working not fast enough, etc every few weeks. Not allowed to take leaves, we have to inform weeks in advance for a single day off but it can still be cancelled. I once applied for a sick leave because I had a really bad headache, was asked to take disprin and cancel my leave. I can add more but I think you get the general idea. Changing teams is not possible I tried. I know I should leave this job and I will…


I think I work in a very toxic team.

Daily standups are just used to take attendance and publicly shame people in front of the entire team if the manager thinks you are not working hard enough.

If the manager is having a bad day, he takes his frustration out on rest of the team. Taunts are very common, you can expect to hear you are incompetent, working not fast enough, etc every few weeks.

Not allowed to take leaves, we have to inform weeks in advance for a single day off but it can still be cancelled. I once applied for a sick leave because I had a really bad headache, was asked to take disprin and cancel my leave.

I can add more but I think you get the general idea.

Changing teams is not possible I tried.

I know I should leave this job and I will leave in a few months as soon as my bond is over.

But how should I deal with this while I am still in this company? I know there are people stuck in similar or worse environment than me, so how are you handling all this?

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