Can You Even Deal with a Toxic Abusive Work Situation?

It is easier to leave a toxic workplace than recover from damage!

My friend has joined a company, she has been there two months for now. Her KPI? A 1 million dollar deal within 3 months. Yes, you hear me right! Is it realistic? I don't think so — in the economy that is crushing.

She needed the job, she accepted the terms hoping she will make it. And you know what? It's been two months and she is close to signing a nearly 1 million deal and has found an investor who is willing to save the current company and invest 20 million dollars.

In my opinion, it's a great success, but her manager thinks it's not enough — the money is not in the account yet thus her progress isn’t valid. She has one more month to prove herself.

Being relatively new in her job, she lacked allies to give her perspective at the marketing company she had joined. Feeling wretched and alone, she contacted psychological coaching to try to find a way to deal with her situation.

Like her, many people struggle to find the clarity and confidence required to extract themselves from abusive circumstances at work. Instead, they tend to think, “What have I done wrong?”

In a highly volatile situation, it is all too easy to overestimate your part in what has happened when it may well be a product of the dysfunctional organization, or simply down to individual behavior: a bullying boss or a toxic colleague.

Often the culprit is successful and charismatic and this only adds to the confusion. Furthermore, if your impressive work is igniting envy, then attempts to right matters by enhancing your performance may only make things worse.

Similarly, if attempts to defend yourself are interpreted as questioning the culprit’s competence, then you are unlikely to get your point across.

Expressing your feelings to a co-worker who is making your life miserable is only sensible if they can control their emotions. My friend is an Italian in her early thirties, fearing for her job when an aggressive colleague intruded into her work, attacked her character, complained about her, and threatened to get her fired.

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