5 Weird Signs You Might Get Laid Off
And two ways you can win them over and keep your job.
If you’re an employee, you’re playing a game of musical chairs and eventually, the music stops and there’s no chair for you. Yet, you’re not a six-year-old at a birthday party. You’ve got a mortgage and kids to put through college. Simply put, getting laid off can crater your life. These can help you see it coming and possibly avoid that fate.
“Come here, I want to show you something.”
Our small team worked for a big company on a project that took us to different office locations each week. This week we were at a small office adjacent to a military base for an Air Force client. We’d been assigned guest cubicles in a back corner.
Cubicles are great at creating the illusion of privacy without giving any actual privacy. My boss didn’t have an indoor voice, so when his voice came out in a hushed tone, I paid attention. His body language said, “I’m about to share a secret with you.”
He rarely shared secrets with anyone and in my nervousness, I picked up the phone, fake dialed, and said, “Okay, I’ve got the New York Times on the line, go ahead!” We got along brilliantly as long as I didn’t show too much intelligence. He didn’t find that funny, so I put the phone down, stepped inside his cubicle and…
