7 Signs Of A Toxic Workplace You Can Spot On Your Very First Day

calvindexter via Getty Images These red flags are signs that your new job may be toxic. ‘Gosh, someone is going to do something about this,’” said Mary Abbajay, president of the leadership development consultancy Careerstone Group and author of “Managing Up: How to Move Up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss.” Toxic jobs mess with your head. “If people stay too long, their self-esteem gets decimated and they don’t think they are good enough to do something else,” Abbajay said. “If people are like, ‘I don’t have time,’ or show an unwillingness to help you learn or introduce you, that’s a warning sign,” Abbajay said. “You know when you get that first project request and it’s like, ‘Wait a minute, that’s not what was in the posting I read.’ I think those are early signs you might have gotten into something that is different than what you expected,” Tall said.