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10 Ways to Make Yourself Unfireable
Tania Khadder
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Unlike so many of your friends and family, you won’t have to figure out a COBRA plan or get rid of your cable — yet.
But instead of there at your desk with a smile on your face, you should be thinking about what you can do — right now! — to make yourself absolutely indispensable.
Having a job is not an innate right. We’re all vulnerable to cuts. Now is not the time for complacency.
The good news is, there are lots of steps you can take to help safeguard your position. And who knows? You may even end up with a promotion!
If you want to be the last person they’d think of letting go, follow our ten tips.

IMFrank
12 days ago
6 comments
LOL! In this economy, this list is quite the hot steaming LOAD! There is no such thing as the fictional unfirable employee. Employers hire and fire at will these days. When they cease to need or want you, they will find some way to unload you quickly.
Henrydm
15 days ago
2 comments
Although some of these reasons are good it does not guarantee that you will be laid off. anyway. I have done all the positive things mentioned, and it I still got laid off anyway. Some of the past jobs that I know that some got spared is because they either are friends with the supervisor, or someone higher up, brown noising, or they tell on anything to big up themselves. Then again I do know some of the harder working employees did get laid off with no good explanation why. I think some luck is involved, a fair supervisor (how many of us know them), and prayer.
jennybriesel
20 days ago
14 comments
Wow the tips are really great that makes a huge sense of working atmosphere.But it depends on the person whether to accept the working terminology or not.
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Jamez007Bond
10 months ago
4 comments
There is balance needed in the work arena that is often overlooked until to late.
In reference to the gentleman who gave so much of his life for his job and then in the end what does he have to show for it? The hard lessons I have watched others learn is that very thing...
Don't give your life to your job so that your family suffers because no matter what the company says to you, you are still just a number and can be cut off at any time. So the lesson learned is to "make sure of the more important things".
What is more important in life, countless hours at your job so that you are a stranger to your children/spouse or cultivating a strong loving family. Yes, it may mean that you can't buy everything that your spouse or children WANT but at least they will have the parent with them during those important, short years as they grow up. They will be gone before you knew what happened, take advantage of that precious time.
This is just my observation and opinion, take it for what it's worth.
jrcollins
10 months ago
2 comments
I mostly followed all the suggestions in your column. I practiced exceptional customer service. When I went on service calls, I always put myself in the customers shoes to really understand their issues. As I had personal injuries and health issues which prevented me from being oncall due to my medications, I was always the first to volunteer when extra help was needed. In February of 2008 I had a heart attack and spent 2 weeks in the hospital. They sent me flowers, but to the wrong hospital, although a couple of fellow employees visited me and new where I was. Anyway after getting out of the hospital I immediately went back to work as I wasn't aware and my company didn't tell me that I had disability insurance I had been paying on for years. Needless to say I requested light duty, which I seldom got and therefore often had to refuse to do things I wasn't physically capable of, such as dragging and climbing ladders. Almost like they wanted to kill me. Needless to say although I had over 18 years of good service with them, they fired me about 5 months after my release from the hospital. We do highly technical computer and security related work and they actually kept a younger guy whos' only abilities were that he was a cabinet maker by trade as well as friends of the in crowd. As far as my wages, I was far from the highest paid. The biggest thing, I think is that I was 53, one of the oldest techs in the company and disabled. I could't even get an attorney to look at it. There were many that made as much if not more than I did. Being that I am in a rather close knit small industry in Columbus Ohio, it reems that likely everyone knows about my health issues or my former company is bad mouthing me. I have been contacted by recruiters stating that my qualifications are exectly what the client is looking for, yet when they submit my name, I am told for no reason, that there is no way they will consider me for the job. I worked for JCI throough a temp agency with the possible expectation of future full time employment as they had no one in the Columbus area certified to work on the equipment I was certified on. Unfortunatly I was injured on the job and my assignment ended rather abruptly. I will say Adecco was great to me for the most part. They put me into a light duty office program they have called STEP and employed me for 12 full weeks. Except for the last month, they worked me just long enough that I made about $10.00 per week more than I would have gotten on unemployment. So I guess having come from the old school af working hard for and looking out for your employer are long gone, there is no loyalty, no even among so called associates that you considered friends. I have so many injuries and illnesses that I have often told people if I were a horse, I would take me out back and shoot me. Since this last injury which I have been told could take months to heal, and it has already been 7 months, I have come to realize that I just cant do it anymore. I was hit in the groin and have been diagnosed with orchitis and bilateral epidimeitis(SP). Unfortunelatey due to the heart medications I am unable to take the appropriate pain medication and therefore now must walk around in constant pain as though someone just kicked me in the groin. So I don't think it matters so much as to what you do, but most importantly how well you have connected yourself with the powers that be. So here I SIT, plenty of time on my hands, wanting to work but realizing that no one wants me. I am trying to figure out how to get on disability, but it appears that once I file for didsbility I will lose my unemployment. Gee wiz, how are you supposed to live for the 6 months or longer that it takes to even possibly qualify for disability. I am just finally coming out of the worst depression I have ever had. THis comment is as much my own form of self help therapy as it is comments on your suggestions. As although I am on anti-depresents, I go to bed every night wishing I would'nt wake up the next day, Unfortuneately try as he might Obama seems to have failed me and the rest of the middle class as unexpectedly since there is supposed to be a new credit law going into effect, Most of the Credit Card Companies have already sent notices jacking the interest rates to 29% and more.
verakot
10 months ago
164 comments
C'mon, don't be so sensitive - your friends can tell you anything!
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about 1 year ago
I won't LMAO, it could be misinterpreted...
""...so far, you can't fire 2 guys for working their ass off at work...""
And yeah, I spend lot of time here, and obviously, I prefer my job vs chit-chatting on the web, all the reputation has been gained off-work, and a social-networking website is more a hobby than anything else. You can't fire me for my week-end activities, lol!!
Yeah, yeah, my attitude... isn't relevant, I'm the type of person that should inspire people to do like I do and not like I say.
"You might get your ass fired..."
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BTW, it's obvious from your advanced "reputation" score that you spend a lot of time here... hope you are finding it valuable!
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about 1 year ago
MChristophe: "be positive, work your ass off, watch your back, have no familly, enhance your skill... well this article said it all!! LOL!!!"
Dude... your attitude is so transparent... and you are so fired...
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be positive, work your ass off, watch your back, have no familly, enhance your skill... well this article said it all!! LOL!!!
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Etymology:
Middle English, from Anglo-French gai, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German gāhi quick, sudden
Date:
14th century
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8. Watch Your Back : or work you ass off... this sounds really gay, tho!!!
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"think of your workforce as a family" see we are back to point 3...
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6. Enhance Your Skill Set : this way you get pay less, for more skills!!