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Toxic Workplace Exit Plan

A clear-eyed decision to leave, a private record and cash runway, health protected while you search, references secured around a hostile manager and a planned last day.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Toxic Workplace Exit Plan, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

🧭 Career Growth

Toxic Workplace Exit Plan

Planning a safe exit from a damaging job, protecting health, references and finances while finding the next role.

  1. Naming what is wrong at work
  2. Target exit date and fallback date
  3. Private incident record kept off work systems
  4. Your own work samples and contacts saved
  5. Exit cash runway calculation
  6. Health baseline with your doctor
  7. Contract, notice and restrictions check
  8. Three-person support circle
  9. Protective boundaries while you plan
  10. Weekly exit plan review
  11. Twice-weekly search sessions while employed
  12. Monthly exit fund transfers
  13. Daily wind-down after hard workdays
  14. Monthly sleep and health check-in
  15. Weekly reconnection with former colleagues
  16. Weekly incident record upkeep
  17. Interview time without tipping off a hostile manager
  18. Referees outside the toxic chain of command
  19. Spotting toxic signals before the next offer
  20. Staying calm in hostile meetings
  21. Explaining why you are leaving, without bitterness
  22. Getting employment advice before you resign
  23. Recognising your own burnout signs
  24. Culture research on target employers
  25. Rebuilding an accurate record of your strengths
  26. Stay, transfer internally or leave
  27. Leave with a job lined up, or leave first
  28. Health-related time off decision with your doctor
  29. Negotiated exit option explored with an adviser
  30. Reference strategy when the manager is the problem
  31. Must-haves for the next workplace
  32. Accepting a step sideways or a pay cut
  33. Exit interview, honest or brief
  34. Resignation meeting with a hostile manager
  35. A short, neutral resignation letter
  36. Getting through the notice period
  37. Last-day exit checklist
  38. First week of freedom reset
  39. First month at a new employer after a toxic one
  40. Exit plan as the main earner with dependants
  41. Exit plan on an employer-sponsored work visa
  42. Leaving a toxic family business
  43. Leaving a first job that turned toxic
  44. Leaving while you manage a team
  45. Exit plan around caring or school hours
  46. Leaving in a small job market where everyone talks
  47. Safety-first exit after bullying or harassment
  48. Leaving a toxic employer in a regulated profession
  49. Toxic-job lessons review six months on
  50. Helping a colleague plan their own exit

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Naming what is wrong at work

A bad quarter, a demanding manager and a genuinely damaging workplace feel similar at 11pm, but they call for different responses. Writing down the specific patterns you see (shouting, blame shifting, unpaid overtime expected, colleagues leaving in a steady stream, being cut out of meetings) turns a fog of dread into something you can judge, and tells you whether an exit plan or a fix is the right project.

First tasks

  • Write ten specific things about the job that make you dread going in
  • Mark each one as a person, team or organisation problem
  • Note what you have already tried and how it went
  • Write one sentence deciding whether to plan an exit, try one fix or watch

Target exit date and fallback date

Without a date, an exit plan drifts into another year of "after the busy season". Choosing a target date, plus a later fallback date by which you will leave even without a new job if things have not improved, gives the search a deadline and gives you a light at the end of the week when it gets bad.

First tasks

  • Look up your notice period and count back from a realistic start date
  • Pick a target date and a later fallback date
  • Write the tripwires that would make you leave sooner
  • Tell one trusted person both dates and ask them to check in

Private incident record kept off work systems

Memories of hostile meetings blur within weeks, and if you later need to explain why you left, negotiate an exit or raise a formal concern, a dated factual record is worth far more than a strong feeling. Keeping it on a personal device, not a work laptop or work email, means it stays yours if access is cut suddenly.

First tasks

  • Create a private document on a personal device for the record
  • Write up the three worst incidents you remember with dates and witnesses
  • Add a fixed entry format with date, people, words used and effect on you
  • Check that nothing in the record is copied from confidential work files

Make it yours.

Install Toxic Workplace Exit Plan, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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