Despite efforts to promote open door policies, and make it clear that upper managers are “people persons,” many workplaces aren’t as nice as they present themselves as being.
According to San Francisco’s Patterwold Institute for Workplace Demeanors, here are ten signs your workplace might not be very nice:
- When a birthday cake is brought in, three fourths is immediately confiscated to be served to the vice presidents.
- You’re constantly made to feel you’re not respected by your boss – primarily because your boss is constantly telling you they don’t respect you.
- There are hundreds of red flags – most commonly about two by four feet, hung on the walls along the every hallway.
- The company informs you that it is changing your last name to “Perkins,” which it says it is authorized to do.
- Taking a lunch break, while not forbidden, is discouraged – often resulting in those who take them returning to find their chairs removed, forcing them to stand for the duration of their tenure.
- There is a manager whose only duty is to randomly visit offices and measure for new curtains, just to make people nervous.
- You’re told that not only does your point of view not matter, but that it has been rescinded until further notice.
- The CEO will not look directly at anyone, and steps into a closet when faced with having to pass someone in the hallway. There are over 40 closets that have been built just for this purpose.
- On “Take Your Child to Work Day,” the children are put to work shredding financial documents, and are told that if they don’t shred at least 50 pounds worth their parent will not be considered for future promotions.
- More than 20 percent of the men in the office are named Glenn.
