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8 signs it's time to change jobs before you get fired
Yahoo ^ | 25 September 2007 | Anne Fisher, FORTUNE senior writer

Posted on 09/29/2007 5:59:47 PM PDT by shrinkermd

From your e-mail, I'd say you are suffering from more than three. Check out the list and see if you agree.

1. You don't fit in. Your values don't match the company's.

2. Your boss doesn't like you and you don't like him or her.

3. Your peers don't like you. Feeling isolated, gossiped about, and excluded from the inner workings of the organization is a very bad sign, as is feeling that you're not part of the team and wouldn't socialize with your colleagues even if they asked you.

4. You don't get assignments that demonstrate the full range of your abilities.

5. You always get called upon to do the "grunt work." 6. You are excluded from meetings your peers are invited to. Sound familiar? If it's painfully clear that your ideas aren't valued, why stick around?

7. Everyone on your level has an office. You have a cubicle in the hallway.

8. You dread going to work and feel like you're developing an ulcer. Ah, here's yet another of your symptoms, and a particularly nasty one at that.

"If the idea of going to the office makes you anxious or physically sick, and you're counting the hours from the time you arrive until the second you can leave, it's time to move on," says Bayer.

(Excerpt) Read more at biz.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: jobchange; jobs; reasons; workplace
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A long, interesting article that is hard to exzcerpt.
1 posted on 09/29/2007 5:59:51 PM PDT by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd

Your coffee tastes like pi$$?


2 posted on 09/29/2007 6:02:40 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: shrinkermd
I have never ever been fired or laid off from any job that I have ever held.

Some of those points do seem a bit familiar, but not because they describe myself.

It seems to me that I’ve seen it all, and the post makes a lot of sense.

I think that I’ll share this article with a few friends.

Thanks

3 posted on 09/29/2007 6:06:02 PM PDT by Radix (When I became a man, I put away childish things)
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To: kinoxi

#9. Your boss demands that you snap to attention, salute and shout “Seig Heil!” whenever they walk by.


4 posted on 09/29/2007 6:06:44 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: shrinkermd

If your key no longer opens the door, you might be on your way out.
If you’re no longer in the company directory, you might be on your way out.


5 posted on 09/29/2007 6:07:08 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: mkmensinger
They stop paying you.

And they take your stapler.


6 posted on 09/29/2007 6:09:52 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (The Constitution was Divinely Inspired by St. Ron Paul.)
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To: mkmensinger
“If your key no longer opens the door, you might be on your way out.
If you’re no longer in the company directory, you might be on your way out.”

If your nice ergonomic desk chair has been moved into a break room and replaced by a cardboard box, you might be on your way out.

7 posted on 09/29/2007 6:10:13 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Westerners continue to explore the expanse of space...meanwhile, Muslims continue to sit in the dirt)
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To: shrinkermd
I'm 7 out of 8...#8 doesn't apply. I love going to work and what I do(radio host/producer/writer/newsman/radio grunt).

That said, I've been 7 out of the 8 for over 25 years, most of it on the 12AM to whenever-I'm-done-after-7AM shift.

Most days...nights...are 10 hours long and I AM NOT making tons o' money, but I enjoy - and am good at - what I do LOL!

prisoner6

8 posted on 09/29/2007 6:12:27 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the Left fall out.)
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To: shrinkermd

#9. You work in an office of stinking, slime ball Marxist’s liberal socialist leftist pigs who vote Dimocrat and love abortion and homosexuals and hate the USA and the military. After a few short years, I told them to kiss my ass and left WA state and came home to Alabama. Man, that sweet smell of freedom.


9 posted on 09/29/2007 6:12:45 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (America's stupidity is overshadowed only by its pure stupidity.)
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To: shrinkermd
Your peers don't like you. Feeling isolated, gossiped about, and excluded from the inner workings of the organization is a very bad sign, as is feeling that you're not part of the team and wouldn't socialize with your colleagues even if they asked you.

My peers like me, I like them. I do feel excluded from the inner workings of the company. I haven't felt this kind of isolation in any other work place. Some of it comes with the territory but this place is a bit weird.

Socializing for real? or for buisiness gain?

I wish work was a party but its not. There is an unspoken commraderie though, that makes it tolerable, That and the fact that we believe in what we do.

10 posted on 09/29/2007 6:12:49 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

If your boss refers to you as ‘that idiot’, you might be on your way out.


11 posted on 09/29/2007 6:14:09 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: Radix

“I have never ever been fired or laid off from any job that I have ever held.”

You’ve not been in IT, or radio/TV, or Clergy, have you? I’ve done all 3.

After a while, you get good at constantly looking for a job. The resume is always current, and always on Monster, etc.

Personally, I’d rather be fired by an evil employer (and they are out there) than be praised by them.


12 posted on 09/29/2007 6:15:07 PM PDT by TWohlford
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To: Larry Lucido

L0L!

Im gonna need you to work this weekend... MMmmm kay...
Thats Grreat...


13 posted on 09/29/2007 6:15:20 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

It’s on now! Comedy Central!


14 posted on 09/29/2007 6:16:10 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (The Constitution was Divinely Inspired by St. Ron Paul.)
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To: shrinkermd

Wow. I’m experiencing all of those...and I’m the manager of my office!

I once worked for a woman who had a sign in her office. It said, “I don’t like it here either, but I own the place.”


15 posted on 09/29/2007 6:16:43 PM PDT by unbiasedtruth
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To: prisoner6

Kick em in the nuts ;0)


16 posted on 09/29/2007 6:16:52 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Larry Lucido

Tuning in! A damned modern Classic!


17 posted on 09/29/2007 6:17:34 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Larry Lucido

Tuning in! A damned modern Classic!


18 posted on 09/29/2007 6:17:47 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mkmensinger
If your boss refers to you as ‘that idiot’, you might be on your way out.

If you are the first person everyone thinks of whenever anything goes wrong, you might be on your way out.

19 posted on 09/29/2007 6:18:47 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (No Third Term For Bill Clinton!)
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To: Larry Lucido

BTW Jennifer Anniston is funny


20 posted on 09/29/2007 6:19:11 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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