More toxic than Chernobyl - Business Development Manager Gartner Employee Review

It took spending a few years of being chronically ill for me to realise that Gartner was not a good place to be. Gartner has the big brand, the winners circle trips and the "development opportunities." When you join you think you're going to be a part of something big and take pride in telling people where you work. Like most toxic relationships, the poor behaviours trickle in slowly: overhearing who the sales team wanted to sleep with, getting told you needed to log on during days when you were so unwell but would do so out of fear each move would jeopardise your career. Over time, the toxicity sort of just hits you all at once and you realise you've been mistreated for so long. What's worse is you ask why you allowed yourself to be treated that way for so long and feel guilty for allowing it to occur. Once you reach your lightbulb moment, you notice that many of the men who you avoided being alone in a room with happen o get a large portion of the promotions. The women who you thought would be "protecting" you, turn out to be internalised misogynists who think punishing women for behaviours they reward in men will move the company forward. Since moving on, I have not had the chronic illness I was experiencing for years at Gartner. The impact of a toxic work environment can ruin your life if you let it. Do yourself a favour and don't put yourself in that position by staying as far as you can from this company.