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Comment by no_wizard | Hacker News Reader

If something isn’t a good fit it doesn’t mean that the work place or boss gets to justify being toxic and then claim “well they weren’t a good fit”

I’ve worked in roles that were very much not a good fit but I wasn’t treated bad at the same time, it was simply clear there was a mismatch.

They aren’t the same thing at all.

Accountability is extremely important and it must run both ways. Corporate culture has been top down for far too long

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Today the 34-year-old has more than 80,000 followers. A few times a week she publishes a post — often several hundred words — and a selfie in which she's holding up a whiteboard with a handwritten summary of that post, like "A toxic boss will use a performance improvement plan to control you, not to help you." A toxic boss, she writes in one post, will "shower you with praise when you meet their expectations but withhold recognition" and "exploit your fear of failure to push you beyond reasonable limits." Each post typically gets thousands of comments (most empathetic, some disparaging) from workers around the world.

Listen to the story. This person's entire identity is now THIS. She is now the anti-work-bosses-are-bad-gimme-my-80k-followers. Two wrongs don't make a right.

I cannot support this nonsense. If you can't see the phenomenon here at scale, then we're truly at odds and I can't see a middle ground between our camps.

That's a pure strawman and unrelated to what everyone else is talking about.

These are all behaviors of a toxic boss and/or toxic workplace. I’ve been doing this long enough I’ve had to endure these things, and this is accurate to those experiences.

It’s no secret that, for example, once you’re on a PIP you generally should be looking for a new job as you aren’t meant to ever move past it. This is common industry advice and has been for decades

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