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Toxic and non Toxic people

pinkchocoholic

How do you know if someone is toxic or not? 

For example, I said I would like to do one hour each week volunteering and the manager said "one hour isn't enough, you have to do at least two".  Then when someone came and "I can come help on Friday if you need me" the manager said "I need help now" (then went to sort out the extra help) 

I might be overreacting BUT having resigned due to mental health, and a toxic supervisor I don't know whether I can trust my instinct let alone new people 

Any thoughts on this or other ways people can be toxic?

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  • If it gets your heckles up, it's good to pay more attention to see if they are just a blunt stressed person having a hard day, or someone who keeps pushing boundaries more that you are willing to give and making you uncomfortable. (if they keep asking you to do more than you wanted.) 

    It's hard, they may have a policy to have two hours to make it worth it for training which would be fair enough, but if you don't feel it will be a good fit, you could try looking at somewhere else? You could even scope out other places, just by wandering in and browsing, and see if the staff feel friendly and helpful. 

    It's hard, sometimes you have to stick it out a little bit to get a feel of a place, and sometimes you just know. I went with a flatmate to a call center place in uni, and it wasn't really an interview, it was 'this is what we do, now sit down and do the job' for an hour. I really didn't like it, and felt their practices weren't really good, so I never went back though my flatmate did. 

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  • If it gets your heckles up, it's good to pay more attention to see if they are just a blunt stressed person having a hard day, or someone who keeps pushing boundaries more that you are willing to give and making you uncomfortable. (if they keep asking you to do more than you wanted.) 

    It's hard, they may have a policy to have two hours to make it worth it for training which would be fair enough, but if you don't feel it will be a good fit, you could try looking at somewhere else? You could even scope out other places, just by wandering in and browsing, and see if the staff feel friendly and helpful. 

    It's hard, sometimes you have to stick it out a little bit to get a feel of a place, and sometimes you just know. I went with a flatmate to a call center place in uni, and it wasn't really an interview, it was 'this is what we do, now sit down and do the job' for an hour. I really didn't like it, and felt their practices weren't really good, so I never went back though my flatmate did. 

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