12 Signs You're About To Get Laid Off!

12 Signs You're About To Get Laid Off! With layoffs (in particular in Tech) on the upswing, many people are getting caught off guard. And getting fired or experiencing a layoff is very traumatic. If you're worried, I created a video to cover some strong signs that your company has targeted you for a reduction in force.

0:00 - The current labor market
2:02 - Your company is going through turmoil
3:08 - You work in a non-critical job type
4:00 - Your department doesn’t add value
4:46 - Your work has been cut
5:28 - Skills aren’t differentiated
6:05 - You’re more expensive
6:48 - Not invited to meetings
7:13 - Your work is redistributed
8:22 - Other people could do your job
8:54 - Your performance is lacking
11:00 - You’ve scaled back
12:16 - Lacking visibility
13:05 - How to take action

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Are you struggling with your job search? Applying for job after job and not getting any interviews? Perhaps you’ve got a few interviews but always seem to get passed over for the job? Or maybe you’re not satisfied with your current career and want a change. Well, you’ve come to the right place.

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[GuitarsAndSynths]

When the CEO says no layoffs will happen that is the TIME to start looking for a new JOB right away! Trust me- I learned this the hard way!

[jimkoney]

Your correct. Once your on the lay off list it's over. You could walk on water and raise the dead and you'll still get laid off.

[darthxellaa]

A good sign too is having to endlessly prove your team's value to upper management. Soft cost analysis exercises should also be a warning.

[cdavidlake]

This channel has taught me that the movie "Office Space" was actually a documentary.

[BadStructuralEngineeringFirms]

One of the signs you are being laid off is that the company is taking adverse actions against you.

I got called into meetings where I was yelled at and blamed for things I had no control over.

This involves things like placing you on a PIP and/or screaming at you in meetings all the time. This has happened to me a lot by bad bosses. They got angry when I outed them for it. One place I worked had everyone in the department quit.

Another sign was when the company distributes the work or list of people, you are not on it. I experienced this first hand.

People who get laid off need to keep all their emails because employers will do anything to get out of paying unemployment.



This is why people need to not be nice to employers anymore. There is no loyalty to anyone anymore.

[ytr]

#1. Training new people to do your work, because YOU’RE moving up! Right? Wrong 😑 .

[PhatChin]

I'm a forecast analyst for a consumer packaged goods company, and my role supports production and sales. I basically try to predict the future and inform stakeholders of upcoming product movement, and potential demand and supply constraints. *I was recently not laid off*, and I think I know exactly why. I had been spending my leisure time learning Excel functions and how to create graphs, reports, and dashboards. I had been applying these learned concepts into my weekly reports and team meetings. Other members in my team did not have this knowledge. I think this was the only reason I avoided the axe. So good luck and do yourself a favor - expand your scope, knowledge, and skillset.

[manolokonosko]

I got laid off only 1 time in my life from a job that led me nowhere and that I hated going to every morning at 7:30am. That is a totally stupid hour to start work. They gave me 6 weeks notice, and I made crazy OT (had nice bosses). The hast day was like graduation or release from prison. I was so happy! Then went on to collect 18 months unemployment while going to school at night. I was 26 and debt free. Life was simpler then.

[xephael]

Quiet quitting is a result of bad management and corporate structures which abuse and do not compensate their employees properly.

Besides menial pay, why should an employee give a crap about a company that doesn't give a crap about them?

[hyrunnisa]

I got laid off. even though I got one of the best performace reviews. It was just because they didn't plan well. I had no idea we weren't selling enough to keep the lights on.

[uacbpa]

The job market is really strange now. Seems like things change by the hour. The only consistent thing is that every change is never beneficial to the employee.

[lorcanoconnor]

When HR asks you to meet for coffee, it isn't for coffee!

[ThirdWorldUSA]

If you sense a laid off wave coming, you start looking for a new job in a stable place instantly. Otherwise, it will not end well for you. You either loose your job or do the job of several people in a place that is going nowhere fast.

[达米恩贱安王]

The non-critical job type is very true. In the department that I was in my last job, I was the only one whose job does not bring revenue to the department (and rather incur expenses as my job involves sending equipment to external vendors for servicing) and when they need to cut expenses and headcount I am the first one to be axed.

[jonsimmons]

All ways have backburner jobs, allways be job searching, lining up interviews at the slightest whiff if a bad wind coming. Try to get another skillset to fall back on, get qualified in something else, truck driver licence, or security guard training.

[nickhxc]

I work in real estate title insurance, and it's a blood bath. We lost about 2/3 of our company. Im still here after 3-4 layoffs. We are basically helping run 3 departments as one. It's terrible. I've already locked down another job and am just waiting until my job until the other starts.

[lexiconu]

I was laid off a couple of months ago and some of these applied. My work was redistributed, it was cut back, i lacked visibility. I felt i wasn't being appreciated and pushed out so i did increase my workload and started doing stuff outside my scope but the damage was done. My boss was reluctant to give me praise (she was an idiot who didnt know jack about our team and most likely couldn't do our work either). I did start to apply for other jobs in my last month, but it should have happened way sooner. Getting interviews but nothing has materialized yet but it served as a wake-up call to never stay stagnant at a company

[kenya]

I work for a very large Healthcare Insurance Company. They have farmed a lot of our positions overseas. I hope that my name is on the list. The way that they have been treating the stateside staff is horrible. Ironically, they offer the worst medical benefits.

[biturboism]

Sometimes KPIs don’t even measure well your actual work output quality/value.
Make sure your KPIs are aligned with what’s good for business, because if your manager didn’t define relevant KPIs for you, even if you achieve good values for those bad KPIs, you might still get the axe.

[obgfoster]

Prior to a major layoff in 2008, my boss started playing weird games with her reports, like beginning a meeting with an ice-breaker question asking what our biggest challenge of childhood was, or giving us a few days to spend $300k on individual purchases worth $10-20. She cut her team by 2/3. I survived by being transferred to manage a department known for being where the misfits got sent. One of my colleagues was a total suckup, and his workload was tripled, and he was put in charge of my area, which being someone who had gotten by in life by being a suckup, didn't really suit him. I left after 6 months, and he left soon after. At no time was anyone consulted or questioned about skills or interests. We were just pieces on a chessboard.