In a toxic workplace honesty is punished and silence is rewarded

In a toxic workplace honesty is punished and silence is rewarded. In a toxic workplace your reaction to other's disrespect makes you the problem. If you speak up, then you are considered problematic, and you are branded as disloyal.

If you are feeling that you must stay silent to avoid being branded as problematic or disloyal, that is a toxic workplace. If you feel that you must reduce yourself so you do not threaten others ego under the guise of the company mantra that you should be "easy to work with", then you are in a toxic workplace.

If you are bullied to change your language to avoid hurting someone's feelings, even when the words you use are not intended to hurt, then you are being censored and disrespected, and you are in a toxic workplace.

If other people are valued more than you based on their gender, color of their skin, culture or any other generic trait, then you are in a toxic workplace. Your value comes from within and if that is not the fact in your workplace, then it is a toxic workplace.

Bad leadership fear honesty and toxic workplaces thrive in silence. Fear is not commitment or loyalty and disrespect disguised as kindness is not company culture.

It is abuse.

If you have the option to find another workplace, do it as quickly as you can. If leaving is not an option, then find help outside the organization and do whatever you need to survive during working hours.

Be safe and never accept that the price for loyalty, or respect, is the loss of your voice.

You deserve better than that.