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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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To: pray4liberty

I like to think of myself as irreplaceable...Mrs. labette assures me that in reality, I’m the only person stupid enough to do the job this cheap!


41 posted on 09/29/2007 6:48:42 PM PDT by labette
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To: labette
I’m the only person stupid enough to do the job this cheap!

Welcome to my world L0L

42 posted on 09/29/2007 6:50:10 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Larry Lucido

OK,now i am upset..I’m out of balance...i’m leaning too much to the right...That’s bad because it means i’m missing a pen or pencil...ALRIGHT, WHO’S GOT MY FRIGGIN #2 Pencil?.....and those cabinets behind me..everytime i turn around-wham,right in the face...and the bulletin board is under the cabinet so i have to bend under it to get to my notes...Is this what happens when you are on the way out ?...you get the worst cubicle ?....#11


43 posted on 09/29/2007 6:55:05 PM PDT by billmor (Happiness is a cubicle that is just right.)
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To: South40

“I can’t get fired, I’m self-employed.”

In that case, your boss just stops paying you.

Honest. Just happened to me.


44 posted on 09/29/2007 6:58:01 PM PDT by TWohlford
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To: shrinkermd

Truth is, that if your’e at the bottom you get stepped on, If your’e at the top you get sniped at. If you are middle management you get it from both ends.

It is what it is


45 posted on 09/29/2007 6:59:02 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: shrinkermd

If you fit this profile your probably a socialist, belong to MoveOn.org and have a willingness to vote for Hitlery.


46 posted on 09/29/2007 6:59:38 PM PDT by Shamrock-DW
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To: RetiredArmy
"#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."

You worked at the public library?

47 posted on 09/29/2007 7:02:08 PM PDT by Honcho Bongs (Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. - Churchill)
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To: shrinkermd

Instead of deserved raises, your company now offers cheap prizes and phony, unrealistic incentives in lieu of raises, and suddenly everyone goes from salaries to being paid on a commission basis.

When this happens, you know things are going down hill fast.


48 posted on 09/29/2007 7:03:16 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: shrinkermd

I just helped my son-in-law through a period of “unjust firing” by a uppity, self-serving female. Advised him to write a letter to the home office explaining the circumstances about his dismissal and requesting a company investigation in to the possible unjust and “illegal” termination of his position. The HR people and lawyers were falling all over themselves and he got his job back, a bonus, personal cellphone number of the President of the company and offered training as a district manager.

There is justice in life. You sometimes just have to use PSYOPs and the cunning of a retired Special Forces Sergeant Major to up to and almost terminate someone who is nothing but a rectum to society.....

If you got to go down...go down fighting and take as many of the enemy with you as you can.....


49 posted on 09/29/2007 7:10:17 PM PDT by Shamrock-DW
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To: Honcho Bongs
"#9. You work in an office of stinking, slime ballMarxist’s liberal socialist leftist pigs who vote Dimocratand love abortion and homosexuals and hate the USA and the military."

You worked at the public library?

Sounds like any government job.

50 posted on 09/29/2007 7:10:25 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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To: Radix

Hey it’s not a big deal you got fired. Pretty obvious you’re defensive about it. Sure you’re a nice fellow and all...


51 posted on 09/29/2007 7:19:23 PM PDT by Professional
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To: Shamrock-DW

I like your attitude


52 posted on 09/29/2007 7:20:16 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: TWohlford

Hasn’t happened in 28 years and I’m pretty sure it won’t before I retire.


53 posted on 09/29/2007 7:21:41 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: shrinkermd

9. Your company car is a Yugo.

10. The owner of the company keeps referring to you as “that new guy Harry hired right before he was fired.”


54 posted on 09/29/2007 7:24:39 PM PDT by lapster
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To: shrinkermd

9. You feel like you are back in high school.


55 posted on 09/29/2007 7:38:25 PM PDT by ikka
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To: Inyo-Mono
"#9. You work in an office of stinking, slime ballMarxist’s liberal socialist leftist pigs who vote Dimocratand love abortion and homosexuals and hate the USA and the military." You worked at the public library? Sounds like any government job.
Sounds like a lot of places I worked in Silicon Valley. The tech industry in the bay area is a festering hive of moonbats.
56 posted on 09/29/2007 7:45:47 PM PDT by hawkboy (Duncan Hunter '08!)
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To: shrinkermd

The cubicles around you continue to be emptied.....(This is happening to my husband as I write. The remaining are waiting for an “announcement.”)


57 posted on 09/29/2007 7:47:31 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
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To: Larry Lucido

CAN’T.

STOP.

LAUGHING!!!!!!!!

Brilliant job, sir!


58 posted on 09/29/2007 7:57:59 PM PDT by gunservative
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To: Larry Lucido

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GREAT movie!


59 posted on 09/29/2007 8:11:31 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: shrinkermd

ping in case I ever have to work again.


60 posted on 09/29/2007 8:23:25 PM PDT by Joann37
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