Signs to change jobs before you get fired

1. You don’t fit in. Your values don’t match the company’s. If your colleagues are dishonest and focused on getting ahead regardless of legal or moral barriers, it’s time to quit before scandal sinks the company.

2. Your boss doesn’t like you and you don’t like him or her. If your boss never asks your opinion, and never wants to chat or have lunch with you, and if you disagree with her/his agenda and dislike her style, your are doomed.

3. Your colleagues don’t like you. Feeling isolated, gossiped about, and excluded from the inner groups of the organization is a very bad sign, as is feeling that you’re not part of the team and wouldn’t socialize with your colleagues even if they asked you.

4. You don’t get assignments that demonstrate the full range of your abilities. Just watching all the good assignments go to others, while you’re given the ones that play to your weaknesses or are beneath your professional level, should tell you something, you’re in trouble.

5. You always get called upon to do the “junk job.” Everybody has to take on a dull or routine task now and then, but if you are constantly being singled out to do the work no one else wants, alarm bells should ring.

6. You are excluded from meetings where your colleagues are invited to. If it’s painfully clear that your ideas aren’t valued, why stick around?

7. Everyone on your level has an office. You have a cubicle in the hallway.

8. You dread going to work and feel like you’re developing a cancer. Ah, here’s another of your symptoms, a particularly nasty one at that.