Warning Signs You're About to Be Laid-Off
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Warning Signs You're About to Be Laid-Off
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#2An old one, but also be weary of private meetings with your boss on Friday.
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#3When the Director of HR and VP of Legal send a meeting request to you.
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#4When you make a hotel reservation to go to a conference in three weeks (Nintendo conference in Los Angeles in my case) and the parent company calls and tells your boss "Wait! Don't make any travel plans! Also, we're going to visit in two weeks!"
....yeah, we basically twiddled our thumbs for two weeks until they came by to pack up our servers and fire everyone.
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#5One-on-one meetings suddenly scheduled after management themselves have been in meetings for an unusually long time.
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#6An old one, but also be weary of private meetings with your boss on Friday.
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#7The one that got me, was the German company I was working for was bankrupted by the president of the company as a key sale of the software product fell through. He did it on December 23rd, before any of the directors could intervene (A quirk of german company law).
I found out on the phone on the 28th while back in the UK. Fun times.
So my contribution: "When it appears the directors bet the company on a single sale and failed."
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#8When you're a contractor and a project you were working on gets cancelled internally, the only other developer leaves for greener pastures, and suddenly your boss takes an added interest in everything related to your work, and makes sure to get the passwords for various things.
... you might get a call as your driving home from work that day to tell you not to come in to work the next day because your contract has been terminated, and they'll ship your desk contents to you, eventually.
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#9I'd say watch out for a meeting that's so important that it's split into two groups, and you're in the first group.
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#10When your network login suddenly stops working.