Early in my career I worked in an absolutely toxic work environment. I was young and inexperienced and didn’t really know how bad it was. Or if this was normal

Early in my career I worked in an absolutely toxic work environment. I was young and inexperienced and didn’t really know how bad it was. Or if this was normal or not. Additionally, the culture included a lot of fake positivity, so I felt like it was just me even though all my coworkers seemed miserable too. Years later in a world with Glassdoor I can read countless reviews that describe my exact experience and can see the company has terrible rating despite what appears to be leadership writing a bunch of fake 5/5 reviews to try and offset the bad real reviews. The lesson I learned is that if work feels really bad you should leave asap. No one is going to care for you. The company is only going to even consider fixing it after everyone leaves and work stops getting done. Work isn’t worth your mental or physical health. Sometimes it is just a bad fit, but often it is just a badly run company, division, department, team or whatever.