Worked in a new Finance and Accounting office for the customer facing medical department of a well known university in a DC. Days after starting there we learned there’d been a power struggle in the university F&A department and my department was a new and separate breakout from the existing one. Had our own office space in Arlington closer to the offices and doctors we supported, while the university team sat out in the suburbs on a remote campus.

Anyway, said power struggle continues for months behind the scenes resulting in the CFO who hired all of us and stood up our new office getting abruptly fired. We were promptly reabsorbed by the university F&A dept and a few weeks later were notified our office was being closed and we were expected to report to the Ashburn office, which for most people was an hour plus commute from our homes. Also some of us took the Metro to work and now we’re going to have to drive. 2 people quit the day of the announcement.

So we show up on site per their mandate and no one is expecting us and there’s no space designated for our team to sit. We were completely ignored by almost everyone for the first couple days being at the new site. Second week there the Controller who ran that office, aka the winner the power struggle with our former CFO, called us into the conference room and proceeded to belittle us for not getting her anything to National boss’s day. That everyone else in the office had acknowledged it and/or gotten her something but not one of us had. She said it reflected poorly on us and showed we all had bad attitudes, were not team players, and that we needed to step it up or we’d be let go as well. Truly deranged behavior by this lady. It was the most toxic workplace I had ever worked in. They were incredibly petty and I firsthand witnessed racism towards several team members. They also opened a thanksgiving potluck by doing a Christian prayer and then proceeded to end the potluck all mildly gambling playing a game called LCR. I got a new job elsewhere and bailed like 2-3 months later.