What's problematic is that the more jumping you do to avoid dumb workplaces, the greater the possibility that only dumb workplaces will be desperate to hire you

What's problematic is that the more jumping you do to avoid dumb workplaces, the greater the possibility that only dumb workplaces will be desperate to hire you. It's a no-win situation. Unless, of course, you can do a better job of evaluating a job before you take it. But people need to pay rent, and heck yeah, companies straight-up lie about the jobs they offer. Perhaps it's time for hiring companies to consider that even though employees are discouraged from saying negative things about a former employer, that sometimes yeah, that former employer was a jerk royale.