If you are among the talented ones in your office and is supposedly getting more attention than your Boss then you should be seeing a pink slip coming your way anytime. There are some good hard working employees, but sometimes their attitude or personality does not take them far in a workplace. But we have another set of employees who are exceptional and are determined to go beyond their bosses, which will end them up in making more enemies than friends. Employees who show up for work, do their duties very well, and their overall job is betted good then it is difficult for Managers, supervisors and corporate figureheads to put employees on probation or fire them if they have done nothing wrong to warrant such actions.
But how will you know that your boss wants to secretly get over you? What might be some signs that a boss gives out when he wants to get rid of his potential threat? Here are a few:
Concentrates on you for no reason:If you have a your boss checking your minute to minute work, keeping a watch on when you come and leave office, checks who are on your chat list and who you are chit chatting with. Then you will have to gear up as he is determined to point your errors more than once. Whether big or small, making you feel guilty is what matters and he will keep repeating it until you turn out humble in your attitude or either get frustrated and leave the job. Either way a boss may reason that he or she won't have to put the person on probation and cause him or her possible feelings of resentment or fire this person. Whatever happens, the boss just wants the potential "problem" to go away.
Insults you in front of others:Pointing out errors will never be a private affair when a boss wants to get rid of a potential employee. He always makes sure that, people in the organization g
et to know your mistakes and how incapable you are of handling the job. Your confidence tends to weaken when you are insulted in front of your colleagues and friends. However, if the employee has noticed an increase in negative statements, this is a clear sign that there is something about the employee that bothers him or her.
Deploys spies who report back to him about your actions:So how long was she in office? Did he complete the work that I had given him? Was she chatting with a person from the other department? Wer
e they on time for work this week? Where did they go after the meeting? These are few of the questions that your boss will shoot at your spies so that he can build a very starong file against you. Records your daily actions to show how viable are you to be fired.
Ignores you and does not expect any feedback from you:Your boss calls you for a meeting, tells you what to do and then the meeting is adjourned. Now this may not have been happening before. How
ever, if these are some sign that your boss portrays then you need to understand that he no longer cares for your inputs.
Offers lesser responsibility:One fine morning you come to office and you find out that you are stripped of your responsibilities and maybe your team is divided without your knowledge. Then
it is a sure sign that there is something unpleasant on the horizon. After all, your boss cannot fire a person who's got a ton of important work to do, with many people underneath you. So over time, he will reduce the work given to you, reduce the people under you and eventually a new job title of which you have no clue about. Eventually you will have a hard time finding anything of real value to do all day.
Gives you impossible tasks that cannot be achieved:If your boss cannot bend your attitude then he will pin you up with an impossible task that cannot be achieved by you, at least something t
hat cannot be achieved in the near future. Trying to prove him wrong, you end pushing yourself harder and the people around you. This could lead to a level where you get irritated, frustrated and leads you to quitting.
Are you longer in the information loop?:You go on a business trip and when you come back, your whole working system is changed. After a day at office you realize that were not informed about any
of these changes and all that you have to do is adopt yourself to the new system. This is a huge telltale sign. Suddenly you're finding out about company news from the cleaning lady or the new girl in accounting. If you were formally in the know about all things business related, but now suffer from "the company's doing what??!" disease, the writing is probably on the wall.
Uses psychological warfare on you:Mental peace is very important at workplace and a psychological warfare by boss will just wipe out all the tranquility you had in your job. He will make you w
ork overtime, disturb when you are on vacation, blow up things out of proportion and keep picking on you for silly problems. All of these sneaky ways are designed to stress the employee so much that it will make you start posting those resumes of yours to other employers.
Encourages you find job elsewhere:Sometimes your bosses can be quite bold, especially after a disagreement, and say something like, "Well, if you are not happy here, why don't you just find ano
ther job?". It is a clear sign that he no longer wants you around him. Although you need to pay attention as to know how the suggestion was made since the last disagreement. If your boss is repeatedly reminding you of finding a new job then it is a complete red flag.
Impossible to get an idea approved:Think back. A long time ago, people would give a green light for your projects faster than the traffic signals. But that's no longer the case. The boss is sud
denly silent when it comes to approval. You're being passed around for middle-manager to middle-manager. The silent treatment is a sure sign of pink-slip disease.
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