How to Recognise a Toxic Work Environment

Like trying to breathe the air on a different plant

Between May and October 2016, I worked at a large, international company in the finance department. I was a temporary administrative assistant and got the job through a local recruitment agency.

This particular job is probably the worst environment I have ever worked in. I turned 24 when I was there and when I started, I felt quite good about the situation. It started off slightly better than my previous job but as the weeks went by, I learned that it was so great.

The room I worked in was essentially an open plan office. There must have been more than 30 people in this office. No partitions separating sections. No space to have private conversations. Everyone could see what everyone else was doing.

It also had a very high turnover of staff. Every week at least one person left and someone new started. One week three people started. All of them temporary, like me. I was there for five months and learning people’s names was a nightmare. As a result of the high turnover of staff, no one knew how to do their jobs either.

I realise that the fact these people were temps, meant that they were first in last out, but that should have also been a sign. Why were so many people leaving so often? I stayed because from January to May 2015 I had been unemployed. I was desperate for a job, and because I had one and earning £250 a week, I didn’t feel like I could leave.

The senior administrator I worked with was a woman called Sally. I have a lot of respect for Sally. She had been a single mother for most of her life and had worked her way to the senior administrator role.

I also worked with Sally’s two daughters, Lucy and Katie. Katie work in a team with a different manager, Tim alongside his two sons, Derek and Caleb. Sally was very good friends with our team manager, Tony, who’s other half used to work with Sally. When Lucy decided to go part-time, a new woman joined the team. She was Sally’s husband’s nephew’s girlfriend, who lived in the same village as Tony’s other half.

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