Signs you are being quietly fired.
Changes related to work responsibilities:
- Reassigning important job responsibilities to other employees
- Demoting an employee, or changing their job description
- Not assigning promising new opportunities
- Setting up unreasonable performance targets
- Giving an employee responsibilities that are undesirable or misaligned with their role
- Preventing an employee from receiving a well-deserved promotion
Changes related to compensation:
- Pay cuts
- Preventing an employee from earning more by taking on extra work or overtime
- Not providing expected yearly bonuses or raises
- Changes related to working conditions:
- Changing work hours or regular shifts
- Increasing workloads to unreasonable or unmanageable levels
- Forcing an employee to relocate
Taking away “perks” such as an office or parking spot
- Changes related to supervisor communication:
- Not discussing career trajectory or providing performance feedback
- Evaluating an employee unfairly, providing excessively harsh feedback, or constantly criticizing their work
- “Ghosting,” or repeatedly cancelling meetings
- Not providing critical information related to an employee’s work and responsibilities
- Not giving an employee credit for their work, or even worse, giving the credit to others