Bad Boss Detox
If you’ve ever had a boss who made you question your life choices, a job that felt like a slow descent into madness, or coworkers who deserved their own reality show (for all the wrong reasons)—welcome to your new favorite podcast. Bad Boss Detox is your safe space to laugh, vent, and reclaim your sanity after dealing with toxic workplaces.
Hosted by Ivy Hensley and Katie Boothe, a Gen Xer and a Millennial with the workplace scars to prove it, we’re serving up hilarious stories, workplace survival tips, and an overflowing helping of snark. Whether you're plotting your escape or just need validation that yes, your boss is the problem, we’ve got you covered.
Because quitting may not always be an option—but laughing about it definitely is.
Bad Boss Detox
Toxic Work Throwback: The Radium Girls
This episode of Bad Boss Detox honors the legacy of the Radium Girls—young women hired in the 1910s to paint luminous watch dials with radioactive paint, told it was safe, even healthy, to ingest. What followed was a devastating trail of illness, corporate denial, and one of the most heartbreaking workplace cover-ups in history.
We’ll explore how these women, many still in their teens, were gaslit by employers who prioritized profit over human life.
This isn’t just a history lesson. It’s a warning. Because the same patterns of denial, dismissal, and dehumanization still echo in toxic workplaces today.
TRIGGER WARNINGS: Misogyny, sexual shaming, workplace abuse, radioactive poisoning, dental trauma, cancer, death
Sound effects provided by Uppbeat. Music provided by the Library of Congress.
