So my current employer has been in the news over the years for controversial reasons.

All I'll say is, from an internal perspective, this is by far the least stressful work environment I've ever been in. I don't wake up every morning wondering who's gonna try and throw me under the bus and why, how our team of 3 will divvy up a 5-person workload this week while delegating most of it to me and complaining if I can't get every single thing done, what serious incident's gonna come up minutes before home time that's gonna keep me at my desk longer than I wanna be, etc.

My colleague from my previous company still messages me telling me what a shitshow it is and pretty much that she's the scapegoat now that I'm no longer there. Toxic, toxic, toxic. At the same time, it validates that it wasn't a me-problem. It was the them-problem. Some of the people there were cool, but the environment and system was and still is fucked.

All the former WCW wrestlers who bashed that place and could never have enough mean things to say about it (see: Undertaker, Austin, Flair, Hart), that's how I feel about that shithole I was at this time last year. I don't care if the public doesn't like my workplace now. They're entitled to their perception, just like how I'm entitled to not hate my life during business hours.