30 Signs You're About To Lose Your Job
The flip side to looking for a job is wondering if you're about to lose the one you have. Worried? Watch for these signs: This is a guest post by Karen Burns of Working Girl, courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap, a content exchange service sponsored by CollegeRecruiter.com, a leading site for college students looking for internships and recent graduates searching for entry level jobs and other career opportunities.
1. Your workload is reduced.
2. You start receiving memos about the company's "new direction."
3. Your company introduces technology that replaces humans.
4. Your company starts to close branches in the name of "consolidation."
5. Your company is sold to, or merges with, another company.
6. Your industry in general is starting to outsource.
7. Your industry is in the news and words like "cutbacks" and "downturn" are used.
8. Your company's stock is dropping in value.
9. Your boss asks if you'd consider a pay or benefit decrease.
10. Your boss doesn't like you and is not showing signs of changing.
11. Your mentor/boss-who-likes-you leaves the company.
12. Your boss is replaced by someone who is known for preferring a "hand-picked" team.
13. You aren't invited to important meetings.
14. Your boss "forgets" to give you info you need to do your job.
15. You aren't copied on important emails.
16. You've been getting negative employee reviews.
17. You are getting more written, and less oral, feedback on your performance.
18. You recently screwed up big time.
19. You're not getting the good assignments.
20. You are given all the grunt work.
21. You're being given goals that are impossible to achieve.
22. You're asked to work on a "special" project that has nothing to do with your skills or experience.
23. You are offered "retraining" or special "coaching."
24. Your workspace is moved to an undesirable location.
25. You don't fit in (your workstyle, or your values, don't mesh with the company's).
26. You're overlooked when it comes to deciding who gets to go to seminars or other training.
27. Your subordinates are being given some of your job responsibilities.
28. You haven't received a raise in a very long time.
29. You've been asked to take some time off.
30. You've seen a job posting that sounds an awful lot like your job.
If you're experiencing three of these, take care. Be proactive. Talk with your boss. Ask how you can do better. Spiff up your networking and contacts. Start putting out feelers for other jobs.
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10 Comments so far:
Funny, I wrote an article with a similar premise in November 2006. It was called 18 Signs You're About to Be Fired.
As I was reading this list I was smiling , what about "your performance rating is consistently graded poor , no matter how hard you try."
This is a good list to go over. Thanks for sharing.
i got 10 sign only. do i need to resign....
@ Meridith
It was a great article, I just read it. Thank you for placing the link here Meridith. ^^
@ jenaisle
Performance rating will always be 'subjective' no matter how HR Professionals and Industrial Psychologist tried to make a PR instrument objective. People who rates will likely look at other things rather than rate what we are supposed to be doing.
My advise: Continue giving your best until eventually others, especially the higher bosses will find out that you are not being rated rightly.
@ anonymous
Nah.
This post was not meant to encourage you to resign even if you have all the signs. Instead, it is meant to open your eyes on the possibilities of losing your job and find ways to prevent it.
Thank you all for sharing your thoughts.
Cheers!
Quite interesting.
Can you please tell me where you go this template from, its wonderful.
Nice post. Really liked it..
Don't forget to update it regularly.
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@ fas
Oh, I coded it from an old template.
I you want to have a copy, just leave your email and I'll send the XML code and CSS style sheet. You can customize it according to your taste. ^^
@ JobHolic
I will. Thanks.
Great list. All bad signs. Usually the signs are more subtle than a person coming to take your name plate off the door. However, most people seem to not notice the 30 things on your list. "Oh, they probably just forgot to invite me to that meeting". Time to cut and run.
Hey Ronnie and Karen, this is a great post and a great read! I thought it was going to be a more of a humor post, it turned alot more informative than i was expecting!
William
Nice post there... Yes, it is necessary to be proactive...getting a job does not mean you can just sit back... u need to get it and also KEEP it.
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