CEO publicly humiliates employees over mistakes/delays — what would you do?
I work at a small company where the CEO have started shouting aggressively at employees in front of everyone whenever something goes wrong. Recently, one of my colleagues got yelled at very badly in front of the whole office over a small fuckup/delay in some task, and he ended up crying afterwards.
This isn’t even a one-off incident. The CEO has shouted at managers inside his cabin too, loud enough that the entire office could hear it. The environment has become very toxic and people are constantly anxious about making mistakes.
Most of us are already trying to switch jobs, but the market is rough and we’re barely getting calls. So for now, people are kind of stuck dealing with this behavior. I'm also very worried and it's becoming very stressful day by day. Also workload is being increased as others are leaving and their work is on us now. Every night, while trying to sleep, these thoughts trigger my anxiety and it's affecting my sleep as I'm worried for the next day. They are also expecting to work 13-14 hours a day, think how their company would grow, and also be creative and try to bring features and fucking surprise them. Also take release almost daily at night and then test and stuff because we don't have fucking QA's. Also from the last 2-3 weeks, they are asking us to work 6 days a week from now on.
Wanted to ask others here:
Have you worked under someone like this? How did you deal with it mentally/professionally? At what point do you decide the toxicity is not worth tolerating anymore?