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It's the holidays and many people are feeling cheerful, but if you're feeling Grinch-like instead this one's for you:
If you've been around for a while, the time will eventually come when a company you work for is in unfortunate shape and will need to "downsize." Having witnessed this at a client of mine this week, I've noticed a pattern and a few warning signs you may find useful...
Here are several warning signs you're about to be laid-off. If you've noticed more than perhaps one of these, your Spidey-Sense should be tingling—it's time to start polishing that resume/CV!
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I. Backups
"Have you backed-up all your work to XYZ?"
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II. Training
"Please train your co-worker on X, we need everyone up to speed on these components."
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III. Important Project or Person MIA
Just like the old Christmas movie, It's a Wonderful Life, where the very existence of the main character is erased from history, a similar fate will happen to $BIG_PROJECT or important people.
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IV. Mandatory Meeting
Subject: Moving Forward in $YEAR+1Content-free meeting invitations or email focused on date periods, especially late-in the year (a nod to tax purposes). "Let's discuss our plan for 2016." **gulp**
That's my list for now, please chime in with any others you can think of.
(Score: 2) by Geezer on Wednesday December 23 2015, @10:20AM
depending on what business you're in. In my field, manufacturing, the key indicators are usually pretty obvious, like factory utilization, trends in sales, capital projects (or lack of) and so forth.
The MBA dullards have a habit of letting go the best-paid specialists first, so in industrial automation and process controls, we have a time-honored bit of dark wisdom:
Q: What do you call a recently-fired controls engineer?
A: A highly-paid consultant.
Worst case, a decent severance package buys a lot of bottled holiday cheer.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2015, @12:09PM
An awesome thing to say if you're presently being fired by an MBA type and you're the only one keeping something working: "If you strike me down I shall become more overpaid than you can possibly imagine."
And I haven't even seen the new movie yet! Ahhhh!