Gran.rf specialist lists 5 signs you’re planning to be fired

The platform specialist listed five signs that an employee’s job in the company may be in danger:

• The employee has already found a replacement – a new employee who took over part of the duties. This can be explained by the expansion of the staff or the decrease in the load – they just found an assistant. Sometimes an employee may be asked to train a new person, and over time, they are given more and more tasks from an existing employee. If there are no objective reasons for such a replenishment in the team, and the amount of work has not increased, then you need to be careful.

• The authorities began to check the work too carefully and it seems that they are waiting for mistakes and are specifically looking for something to complain about. This can be a wake-up call if this level of control and demand was not previously typical of management. If an employee works as usual, at least not worse, but there are more and more complaints, this may be a bad sign.

• The other extreme is a sharp change in employee policy to a liberal one. They began to treat him with intrigue, began to turn a blind eye to many things and seemed to stop paying attention to him. There are no comments, no recommendations, no new tasks. On the one hand, such loyalty can even please at first: there is no unnecessary tension. But if the changes from the previous style of interaction are abrupt and unreasonable, this can be a harbinger of dismissal.

• The employee is not included in the planning of the future of the company. For example, they don’t offer to speak at a conference that’s scheduled to take place in a couple of months, or they’re in no rush to allocate a separate workspace at a new location after moving. This is a rather subtle criterion and it cannot always be traced, but if you suddenly notice such tendencies, you should try to clarify the situation.

• The authorities contribute to the deterioration of the working conditions of employees: they transfer them to an uncomfortable place, reduce salaries, introduce new rules and draconian reports, overwhelm them with workloads and difficult tasks, change the terms of cooperation to ones that clearly not suitable. . At the same time, interpersonal communication can be quite favorable, on the contrary, friendly and polite. Such a strategy is aimed at ensuring that the employee himself decides to resign; he could not continue working. In the meantime, the management cannot be held responsible for this.

According to Anastasia Korneeva, the actions of an employee in such a situation depend on the level of trust and contact with the manager. If the relationship is suitable, then the psychologist recommends asking directly, sharing your experiences and getting answers to questions from her. If you cannot wait for a sincere and honest conversation, then it is better to develop a “plan B” for yourself, start thinking in the direction of finding a new job.

The specialist also warned that it is still not worth cutting in the heat of the moment, because it is impossible to know 100% how things are: it makes sense to take measures for your own safety and wait for the situation to clear up.