How to tell if you are going to be fired...

[simplydamon]

Fire Your Boss by Stephen M. Pollan and Mark Levine has some ways for you to spot if you are possibly looking at getting the axe (this is only a partial list of ways that you might be able to identify a potential firing).



How to see if you might be getting fired:

1. Pushed hard to finish one or two specific projects.

2. You are not advised of meetings.

3. You are not invited to meetings.

4. Your expense reports are questioned.



Read the book if you want more info ;)

[George]

you hear people talking behind your back. Or people make comments about losing your job.

[lifesab-andthenyoudie]

You get moved to a storage closet and they tell you it's a new office. (this happened to a friend of mine)

[George]

wow a storage closet...thats just wrong.

[ntbgirl]

lifes, thats from office space. Are you serious it happened to someone you know?

Here's another clue ..when people just stop working with you. for instance your in a group and most people ignore you..

in my job, they always question my expenses. I work for a company whos so stingy theyd reuse toilet paper if they could figure out how to save it from going down the drain.

[lifesab-andthenyoudie]

Yup, it really happened to someone I know. And it happened way back before the movie (show?) It was 1979 and the person was an account coordinator in a major advertising agency. One day they showed up and told her that, because the area she was currently sitting in (shared office space) was going to get another AC on a different account, she had to move. It was literally a storage closet that they moved her into. She was there about 3 weeks before she got canned.

[Parklane64]

A co-worker starts saying, "You have such potential," and then sighing.

:confused:

[freekyfrawg]

If I recall coreectly (chuckle) the thing that gave it away for me many moons ago was a co-worker telling me that she hated my guts and would go to every extreme to get her 2 uncles (who owned the business) to get me fired. So, I found another job the same day they were going to give me the axe. Needless to say, in future, I avoided nepotistic places of employment whenever I'd be job-hunting again.

[raincoaster]

I had already arranged an exit plan with my district manager, deadline May, when I realized it was happening much faster than our agreement.

I had a job which was at the office for half the week, working on a corporate newsletter, and in a store half the week, being an assistant manager. The manager left a message for me when she knew I wouldn't be home, saying I had an important meeting to attend with her and the new district manager on Friday, and if I had any questions to phone her. So I phoned her from the office. She said "uh, I can't talk on the phone." I said can you at least give me an idea what the meeting is about? "Uh, I can't talk on the phone." Okay. At that moment the office manager, looking terrified, came in, asking me if it was possible for me to finish the edition of the newsletter I was working on and give it to her on disk before five that evening, a day ahead of schedule.

This didn't give me a good feeling.

So I called the store. "Hi Bob, it's me. Just checking to make sure that all my shifts for the next two weeks have been filled." They had.

So at that point I finished up the newsletter, put it on a disk, gave it to the office manager and went to see the Employee Relations person. When I walked in I closed the door, which caused him to raise his eyebrows. "What's up?" he said. "I'm being fired," I said, "and I need to know my rights with respect to UI, severance, etc."

"Er, and uh why do you think you're being fired?" he said, eyebrows arcing over his forehead. So I reviewed things for him and asked his opinion. "Uh, I guess in those circumstances I'd probably feel I was going to be fired," he agreed. Then he gave me the info I'd requested. We were interrupted once by someone informing us that we were expected at a going-away party for a very nice fellow who'd been with the company seven weeks. At that point I'd been with the company for seven and a half years.

Went to the party just long enough for one piece of cake, then went back to the cubicle and sent the CEO a very nice "it's been marvelous working here, and as I leave to start my own media company I wanted to say how very much I've enjoyed the experience" and put it in the office mail before anyone could get in there and pull it out again. Did the same for all my contacts at HQ. Packed up my books and samples, saved all my work to disk (no, I didn't erase anything from their computer!) and left.

The meeting went fine. It started with the new DM saying, "Over the past seven years, you've seen many changes at the company..." He was interrupted by the store manager, who'd seen the bored expression on my face and correctly interpreted it.

"No, she juz want to know about zee monnai."

He stared, aghast.

"That's right," I said. "I just want to know about the money."

And so it was.

[simplydamon]

How many people have quit their job because they misread what was going on around them? In other words, have people quit because they took signals wrong when they weren't going to be fired?

[simplydamon]

Hi,

An interesting piece on the potential warning signs that you are going to be fired.


http://management.about.com/cs/people/a/YouveBeenFired.htm

"One of the earliest signs is office location. If you get moved from the corner, window office to a window-less cave by the lunch room, you know it's time to polish your resume. A less obvious sign is your team being moved to offices farther from you or into less desirable offices."

Appears to be very much like the Milton character in "Office Space".

***Another warning sign that I haven't seen yet? If your team starts getting assigned to other departments or teams.

[Andiland]

I left my last job when I was shut out of my own work loop. The three bosses I had kept making changes with my contractors without telling me (they were my job to coordinate) and then complaining when I didn't know what was going on. I knew that either they
wanted to stiff me at raise time
insert another level over me, effectively demoting me, or
get me to quit so they could replace me


The interesting thing is that when I started 3 years prior, I created all the procedures and forms that we were using, my bosses having no idea how this sort of department had to operate. I dealt with over 50 contract organizations and everything got done on time. After I left, I got e-mail at home from several of them telling me that things had gotten really screwed up.
I heard through the grapevine that I was replaced by someone paid $15,000 less than I had been making. She left for a new job last week.

[stormbringer_north2000]

Been fired a couple of times. Before I knew how to deal with office politics.
Some of the signs included:

-people acting like you're not there
-half-hearted or crooked smiles
-someone who may not have liked you making a snide comment
-you get written up for some trivial matter and your boss stands by waiting for you to quit or lose your temper

It's not the end of the world. Remember to document EVERYTHING and DO NOT keep it at work or mention it to co-workers. Even those you consider your friends can put the knife in if they think a raise of promotion can be garnered out of your departure!

[hyena8]

My company spends so much time and money training people that few get fired. Instead, they get sent to the mines to work on the menial jobs and they get a pay cut. I don't know how many people have quit because they got sent to the mines. It's a way to cover the companies ass while still getting rid of unproductive employees. 'Oh we moved them to a new department but they quit so we are not at fault'.

Sign I was being fired from an earlier job:

You stink (literally they said I stink of mold; I shower 2 or 3 times a day and do laundry every week) and you have two weeks to get your landlord to clean up your apartment or you are fired'. Dummy me didn't take the two weeks and just not show up for the next shift. Instead I quit and was denied worker's comp cause they said I quit when in fact I was abused by the manager to the point of quitting. And give a quarter raise in 3 years and denied promotion time after time.

I am so happy I got fired/quit that dump and they closed their doors last year because they lost their best employee...me!!

Sorry if i hijacked the thread..... :(