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15 Signs that You’ll be Fired
- You see your position being advertised on JobStreet.com or the newspaper classifieds.
- Your coworkers keep asking you “If, theoretically, you’ll resign or be fired for whatever reason, may I have your cubicle/chair/lamp/pencil holder?”
- The IRS or the FBI come to your company building looking for you.
- For some reason, your coworkers have stopped inviting you to staff meetings.
- The person you’re dating, who happens to be the boss’ son or daughter, breaks up with you unexpectedly.
- Your direct subordinate is running around your office with measuring tape and wallpaper samples.
- The budget list for the following month has an increase for “office supplies” equal to your salary.
- You receive an office memo with the subject “Re: Merger”
- Your secretary is given more work than you.
- All your friends in the workplace have already been fired.
- The boss insists that you take an “indefinite” amount of time off as a “vacation”.
- Your performance review, instead of verbal or written, comes in the form of a guy in a black cloak with a sickle.
- Instead of your position, the text under your name on the office door reads “Dead Man Walking”.
- The font color of your department profits is red.
- Your new boss is 15 years younger than you. And you’re only 35.
Great post. Glad I don’t have to worry about those office politics as a freelancer. Guess I’ll just have to worry about…firing myself!
Or “firing” your clients. I know from my personal experience that some clients are migraine inducing. It’s not often, but it happens.