Bad Places to Work?
If you’re looking for a job, you’re probably doing your due diligence to avoid landing in a toxic work environment. We’ve all heard and read horror stories from people who hold “toxic jobs,” or jobs that often involve low pay, long hours, little appreciation, and utter emotional and physical exhaustion. And that’s not even including co-workers, who themselves can carry a pathogenic toxicity with them. Hell, you might even be the problem.
So, if you’re on the job hunt, avoiding toxic jobs or toxic work environments should be high on your list of priorities. The problem is, there’s not often an easy way to tell which companies you should steer clear of. Surprisingly enough, even some of America’s biggest and most-admired companies can produce negative work cultures.
Toxic work cultures – like roaches or rats – always seem to find a way to thrive. It may be a blend of corporate policy, friction between personalities, or the very nature of the work itself; no matter what the root cause, toxic jobs are in every industry. And while you can sift through Glassdoor reviews of a prospective employer, you often won’t know for sure if you’ve found yourself in one until you’re actually there.
But we’re going to orient you, job seeker, a tiny bit. We’ve made a short list of four big-name employers, which have been known to house some very toxic work environments. Each of the following companies have done some amazing things. And each have thousands of employees who likely love and cherish their jobs. That’s because experiences are not uniform. People perceive and experience things in different ways. One employee’s nightmare scenario may be another’s dream. It all depends.
Take the cutthroat nature of the finance industry, for example. The great majority of us probably couldn’t handle working 80-hour weeks, with the potential for catastrophic fallout if we use bad judgment. But for some people, Wall Street is the perfect fit.
So, if you’re looking for a new job, there are plenty of places to look. But be sure to keep work environments in mind, and try to get a read on what the actual day-to-day experience might be like as an employee. Here are four big companies that might look great on your resume, if offered a job, but might present some real challenges to prospective employees., Amazon is Number one in the list