India, Oct. 7 -- An Indian techie's detailed Reddit post about being fired by a toxic boss, only to be asked to return months later, has gone viral, sparking a discussion about toxic managers and workplaces.

In the post titled 'Terminated from a high paying job. Now they want me back', the 31-year-old IT consultant recounted how he went from a decade of career stability to sudden termination after joining a foreign company as an individual contractor. He shared that he had been referred to the company by a client and was offered a 150% salary hike along with payment in USD and a near-complete work-from-home setup. "I was on cloud nine," he wrote. "We started from scratch and worked very hard. 10 hrs a day is normal and often times I work...