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Getting fired is a horrible experience, but getting fired when you didn’t even see it coming is something truly shocking. If you’re guilty of any of the following five workplace no nos, you could very well find yourself on the outside looking in. The following situations and scenarios were either taken from my personal life, or folks I have worked with or known over the years.

1.) The Office Romance: No boss likes dealing with the office romance. They are a distraction to the workplace and other employees. Most large companies (especially large US retail chains) officially forbid them. Back in the days when I was a young store detective for a major department store, I was secretly dating my future wife, who worked at the customer service desk. Well, we thought it was a secret, until my boss called me into the office and asked. “Which one of you would like to leave?” I was surprised, as this was an extremely low key romance. Apparently, I had signed off on a no fraternization policy. We were both able to retain our jobs my my accepting a transfer to another store. A company isn’t too concerned about workplace love when it’s going well. But hates it when it goes bad. Be careful and stay out of the Copy Room, you two!

2.) You’re Too Old For Your Job Description: Are you 40 and still working french fries? If you’ve become older and your co-workers are getting younger, that means you haven’t progressed within the company. If you’ve out-aged yourself without showing any desire to move ahead in the company, you could find yourself without a gig. Especially these days. If you don’t set goals and move ahead, why should the boss keep you around? Your company could probably hire two people for the price they’re paying you to remain stagnant. Even though it is illegal in the US to fire someone because of their age, we all know that there are ways around the rules. Maybe your boss will start keeping a careful eye on your tardiness. “I’m sorry, Bill. You’ve been late 3 times this month. We know you’ve got 4 kids and a mortgage, but we’re going to have to let you go.”

3.) You’ve Outgrown Your Position: Remember Dean Wormer’s words to Flounder in the movie, Animal House? “Fat, Lazy and Stupid is no way to go through life” Although you may not be lazy or stupid, overweight people have told me in the past how tough it is for them to get hired. I’ve never had to deal with the issue, but I’m assuming that weight discrimination is rampant. An overweight woman I worked with years ago told me that she had to take less of a job because of her weight issues. She was college educated in the secretarial field (with more than adequate computer skills for the time period) and couldn’t seem to find a decent job anywhere. She had been passed up for countless reception-type jobs where younger, more attractive (and skinny) women were hired. She told me that she had been informed by a friend of hers who worked in a huge ad firm, that “good looking women” were hired for these types of jobs because “they made a good impression on clients, visitors and bigwigs.” Now, this was second hand information to me, but I wouldn’t doubt it happens everyday in corporate America.

4.) You’re Sick And Can’t Shut Up About It: Got cancer? Shut your mouth. Got a disease? AIDS? Shut your mouth and don’t tell a soul at work. Workplace gossip (or your own BIG mouth) could place your job and your health insurance in jeopardy. Your company doesn’t need a liability. You being sick is a liability. Time out of work for medical treatments and increased insurance premiums are just two of several reasons your company doesn’t need a sick person working for them.

5.) You’re Burnt Out And You Don’t Care Who Knows It: If your negative attitude and constant I don’t give a crap complaining to your co-workers goes on too long, you might as well kiss your job goodbye. Co-workers will only listen to you for so long before the boss gets wind of your bad attitude. Negative ranting is a workplace disease and no boss (no decent one, anyway), wants his people infected. If you’re burnt out, you already know it. Get a new job as soon as possible or you’ll find yourself put out. If you can’t find a job right away, at least quit your complaining until you find one.

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Recent work in child psychology , particularily on the development of consciousness in infants and very young children , may be useful in appreciating the importance of this contimunum in our lives. For hidden in the apparent non verbal behavior are often clues to a variety of otherwise inanane , nonsensical , indeed downright inefficient and most ineffective behaviour - behavior which is supposed to be occuring in allegedly rational and experienced human beings. Human being who may have well gone off the deep end - with out without the use of drugs and alchohol.

As far as can be determined infants and young children do not begin their lives with a developed ego or sense of “I ness” , but rather dwell in consciousness states that are far more fluid and developed. Since psychology is carried within a cultural bias which emphasizes individuality, it is not surprising that developmental psychology has tended to develop along the lines of a focus of how individual consciousness emerges and develops from the earlier states of development towards inane behaviour. How do these states develop into the “I behaviour ” of adults ? and “Non I self centered behavior ” ? Unfortunately it is more often the case in interractions with bosses and management types that the development never gets past the basic “I - centered ” behaviour where every situation and behaviour is centered around their childish wants , needs and preferences. Discussion of a point is at a stance where it incomprehensible to understand that a differing point may be taken in a discussion and is not part part of the other person’s held views or value system. All of this , while under a pretense , of a valid adult two part discussion. The answer to any question to this idiot is ” I am the boss”. Not unlike the anal retentive behaviour of a 2 year old.

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Seemingly unchallenging jobs have their merit. Now that idea has merit may be said of most situations even in front of the hangman. Still if your work bores you , God may be prodding you to look for more interesting work.

You could argue , or challenge the point, the God never intended people to work at boring jobs. Can you picture Adam or Eve off in some corner of Eden spending day after day doing nothing but cutting slots in sticks. The industrial revolution provided a higher standard of living materially but it did so at the cost of putting people in boring ,monotonous jobs with little fullfillment in their endeavours.

Changing jobs scares us for any of a number of reasons. A bird in the hand is worth 2 or even 10 in the bush. The grass looks greener on the other side , but it still has to be cut and tended to. Better the devil you know than do not.

Although you do not want to act on impulse and regret it later you should not let such fears paralyze you. If you are currently employed then you do not have to rush headfirst into a new job or career out of economic necessity. Well hopefully not. Continue working at your present job while you take aptitude tests, get career guidance, do research perhaps even work part time on other jobs you think that might appeal to you.

Many lament the fact that they are too soon old and too late smart. Having failed at a good education or a skill they feel trapped in low paying gobs. But wanting to get out of a boring job may provide just the motivation you need to get moving and get that extra training or credentials. It may also offer considerable time to work on studies. Many people have earned an academic degree working such positions ( for example night watchmen or security guards) that actually allow unattended and unaccounted time during work hours or at least leaves the mind for study during off hours.

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In the service of emphasizing our individual identity , we should of all learnt to separate our individual and consciousness states often thought of of our “ordinary” reality from non individual consciousness states , including group consciousness. The latter tend to be consigned to either the “higher realms” of the spirit or the “lower” realms of the group and mass man, Jung’s abaissement du niveau mental . Dividing human consciousness into such polar categories has a long psychological history dating back to back a time when the facility of individual consciousness interpreted as a divine gift separating humans from their animal nature. Such conceptualizations define us too rigidly by this gift: inflating the centrality seems increasingly inapplicable to our post modern world, which also sees and values that part of our nature that functions sentiently as a member of human groups.

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When mediated though intense group experience , the scapegoat archetype is one of the most powerful determinants of human behavior. Life itself may be willingly sacrificed when we are in its grip. But in the influence of group consciousness and the powerful group archetype that is calls into play are not only functions of extreme situations such as war, riots and religious ceremonies. Human beings are both individually conscious and a profoundly sentient species, most of our lives are lived in groups; much of our thoughts and feelings are concerned of our individual consciousness are evoked and coloured by groups. Even as we are concerned for the development of our individual consciousness, itself a Western collective ethos, teh influence and importance to group life and group consciousness extend to every nook of cranny of the lives of human circumstance and human circumstances.

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