Career Advice #JobSecurity #Fired
Hey everyone, I need your help 🚨 I just saw a job posting for my position and I’m pretty sure I’m about to get fired. What should I do? Should I leave first or wait for the inevitable? 😬
Here are some possible solutions that might help:
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Talk to your Manager:
- Have an open and honest conversation with your manager about your concerns. Ask for feedback on your performance and see if there’s anything you can improve on.
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Update Your Resume:
- Start updating your resume and reaching out to your network. It’s always good to be prepared for any situation.
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Start Job Hunting:
- Start looking for other job opportunities just in case. It’s always better to be proactive rather than reactive.
- Consider Your Options:
- Think about what’s best for you and your career. Leaving before getting fired might save face, but it’s important to weigh the pros and cons.
Have you been in a similar situation before? What advice would you give? Let’s help each other out! #SupportEachOther #CareerAdvice
No. If you leave, you won’t get unemployment. Stay
You sure they not hiring another person to help? Is your position redundant? If you feel it coming, leave
Take out a loan.
Other than a job posting, what makes you think you are going to get fired?
>Should I leave first?
What would you gain by leaving? If they are looking to replace you, are actively recruiting, but haven’t fired you yet, it may still several weeks or more before it happens. Why not keep collecting a paycheck from them and see where it goes? Unlike what someone else posted, it’s not ‘shameful’ to be fired, sometimes that just happens. Might as well get the most out of the position while you can, unless you are independently wealthy, and a few weeks’ pay doesn’t matter to you.
Why doesn’t OP apply to the position?
Let them fire you. If you’re going to be fired “without just cause” you might receive severance. It is better than quitting and receive nothing.
without knowing why you are being fired its hard to say, do you suck at the job? is it a personality clash.. if it was me and i didnt need the money id would probably dip.
Keep your job and continue applying for others. Schedule interviews on your days off. NEVER LEAVE A JOB UNTIL YOU HAVE FINALIZED A WRITTEN LETTER OF EMPLOYMENT WITH YOUR NEW COMPANY.
You should immediately start looking for a new job and let them fire you.
I’d just start job searching. And if you find something better before the end of your time there, you can hit them with the unexpected loss of an employee, the same way that they would hit you with the unexpected termination.
Normally, the advice would be to stay until you get fired, but based on your comments, your situation is different.
You shouldn’t worry about the things you can’t control such as your job getting posted or if you aren’t “expected to work this week” or the chances of you getting fired.
What you can control is updating your resume, looking at other positions that are available that you are qualified in and apply to those, and practicing your interviewing skills.
EDIT: Also, you should start to look at your expenses and see where you can cut down. I’m not sure what field of work you are in, but in the US, it’s an employer’s job market.
Immediately write a resignation letter that is pleasant and firm, thanking them for the opportunity to serve and learn with the fine team and say you’re pursuing other interests. Send it by email to your boss and HR so you have a record.vL Give 2 weeks notice and offer to train your replacement. They may let you go early with pay for the two weeks. Also ask for a letter of recommendation and they might give it to you to keep the peace. Be happy and pleasant when you’re there and if they ask what you’re doing next just say, “I’m keeping that under wraps until I’m ready to launch it.” Then start a small business that requires no investment and immediately go to a temp firm to get temp work while applying for a new job in your area of expertise or something interesting that pays more..if they ask why you left, say you felt you were no longer learning more and were able to start a side business while looking for a full-time job and are excited about the possibility of joining their team and then ask them more about how they work there to show genuine interest. Don’t miss a beat. Do it now. As for the question they ask about whether you ever quit a job to avoid being fired, unless someone said you were being fired as a tip off, the answer is “No.”
Get out the resume, go job hunting, stay until you get a new one , or they fire you
I think it depends on your situation. If it were me, I would start an extensive job hunt but continue working for them as long as I could.
I knew someone that this happened to. She was much older and well off financially, so she technically did not have to work. After 20+ years of service, they posted her job and treated her poorly. She wrapped up a few things that were important to her to finish and left before they were able to find someone else. She stuck it to them, because they have been scrambling ever since she left. Hiring multiple people to do her job, calling in consulting companies, etc. Let’s just say, it would have been far less expensive to just be nice to the lady.
I don’t think either one is the “right” choice. I think it just depends on where you’re at in life.
I wish you all the best. And sorry this is happening to you. May better opportunities come your way!
Look for new roles
If you can’t get unemployment milk the paycheck for every dollar, if you want a bit of revenge just stop doing any actual work while they go through the process of firing you
It’s really hard to say. There are basically 2 reasons to quit: 1) to avoid having to tell future employers you were fired or have it potentially mentioned in a reference or bg check (yes some companies ask and some companies answer; no it’s not illegal in the states, can’t speak for OP in Europe or speak to how imminent the firing might be), and 2) to avoid being used as a safety net while your boss replaces you.
There are 2 reasons to stay: 1) revenue stream/lack of resume gap while you job hunt, and 2) to get unemployment, which you commented that you can’t.
You tell me which ones are more important to you.
No you don’t leave , let them fire you
Apply for the job posting
No get unemployment.
I got let go Thursday after getting back from. 3day vacation with family, boss said as I walked in to go to work that morning, today’s your last day, were making changes..
Had my belongings packed up in a box.. see ya..
Start looking for another job first and formost
Also apply to the job your boss posted so she knows you see whats going on.
Oh I hate that feeling. Don’t leave. Wont get unemployment. Employers are rough now a days. Or maybe they are just hiring another person to be with you
Stay, get package and them EI
Karma is real.
Seems like a great opportunity to wait for the meeting and when they announce you are being terminated, you can yell “You can’t fire me. I quit!” And storm off.
Sell your company stock to the opposition
Sorry to hear about this position the company ‘ put you in now. Rooting for you. Onward to bigger and better things.
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Send in your resume
Maybe they are hiring some help for you 🤔
Yes. Leave. You nothing but a number. Know your worth king.
-Slay
A lot of companies will post fake job openings. It is a way to “encourage” higher productivity in employees. So there’s a good chance they’re just fucking with you. However you have the closest view of what’s going on in your life so if your intuition says you’re about to be fired, I’d trust your gut and plan appropriately, you should always have back up plans no matter what.