At one of my previous workplaces, the owner was a particularly opinionated woman, who had her favorites and her non-favorites. If you were on the good side, as

At one of my previous workplaces, the owner was a particularly opinionated woman, who had her favorites and her non-favorites. If you were on the good side, as long as you were even marginally competent, life was roses. If you were on the other, you could be virtually perfect, and she would find something to reinforce her negative opinion about you. Oddly enough, it was mostly other women that were the focus of her ire. Not 100%, but she was blatantly harder on her female subordinates than on most of us men. It was an... illuminating experience across the board. I left after a year, and in retrospect I should have left a lot sooner. Toxic work environments really get to you, no matter what.