It is important to have a good support system at work to do well. Toxic bosses can ruin your health and everything you have worked hard to achieve. The medical profession is well known for having highly toxic bosses in internship and residency training programs with scores of the brightest young men and women in the world being catastrophically ruined and even driven into suicide by doctor bosses who abuse them instead of helping them to progress in their hard earned careers. This problem is of course also seen with bad bosses in other walks of life. The British Psychological Society reports that toxic bosses are bad for both your health and your reputation. It has been observed that toxic bosses who display psychopathic and narcissistic traits make workers feel depressed. The bullying behavior of toxic bosses also leads workers to engage in behaviors which are not desirable at work. These findings come from research from the University of Manchester's Business School. It was found workers who had bosses with negative traits shared lower levels of job satisfaction and manifested higher levels of depression. Counterproductive behavior at work was also seen more often in workers with toxic bosses. Bosses displaying psychopathy and narcissism have a lust for power and generally lack empathy. This results in workers being taken advantage of.
Daily Mail reports your career can be ruined by a toxic boss. Such bad bosses can also make you physically and mentally ill reports The Washington Post. The anxiety associated with having a bad boss can lead to high blood pressure, sleep problems, anxiety and depression. We lose a lot of good doctors and good people in other walks of life to toxic bosses all of the time. Psychiatrists claim they try to help with this problem but due to the unusually toxic personalities of the psychiatrists themselves they consistently exacerbate the problem of dealing with toxic bosses.
