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This shouldn’t be news to people but it is.
I got the job. That is all.
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Fired or laid off?
For the second- if you notice things getting slow and/or see a lot of meetings between department heads and finance.
If other people are swamped but you aren’t given new assignments that take more than a day or two.
If you start having to figure out what to put on your time sheet.
If the creative managers and CDs are really nice to you but don’t spend much time around you.
Sorry, it sucks. But you will find other ways to make money, even if they’re not your dream gig, you’ll learn a ton about the industry and other agencies and you’ll be stronger because you won’t be afraid of losing your job
If your boss books you at 9PM for a meeting at 10AM the next morning to discuss “assignments given the current workload”, but things have been quite slow recently... yeah, you’re a goner.
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Every once in a while my key card won’t work and I think, “this is it. I’m being canned.” But then it’s just a glitch and I have diarrhea all day.
Me too!
You won’t know. But don’t be surprised to find many of the supervisors and senior team members miraculously out of the office at the same time of day/morning when layoffs happen
The office security officer comes up with a box.
Sometimes you don’t. Don’t carry the shame, move on, and find a better place for you.
Usually you get a warning
Gut feeling. If you have it, start lining up your next gig
1/ Your workload is light-on.
2/ Your CD avoids you like the plague.
3/ You finally catch your CDs eye and it feels like they are looking at a dead man.
4/ People in your group are busy.
6/ You get an email titled "Catchup"
7/ Finally, you arrive at the meeting and the CD is sitting in the room with the CFO.
Always HR...
Intentional distancing from your managers/leadership.
When your direct manager says, “Can you come to into this conference room to talk?” Once to tell me that they wanted to hire me full time. The other time was to lay me off.
This thread gives me disturbance😥😥
Meetings you’re in get moved to another day. Except you aren’t invited and the people who know it’s going down don’t tell you.
When IT ‘borrows’ your laptop to make an update.
If you receive email on your phone, your email stops working. When you try to log in, your account is locked. There’s your sign...
I agree with trusting your gut. Of course, if you also received a bad performance review in the past year - that’s their documentation for HR/legal. It’s not that you can’t improve, but...
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OMG. Insight!
The calendar invite says "Catch up" and the room is on another floor.
Beware the Friday afternoon meeting with just the ECD.