How Not to Get Fired: Advice From an HR Insider to Help You Weather an Employment Crisis and Keep Your Job (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780228827818)

Did you know you can be good at your job and still get fired? It might not feel fair, but it's true.

No one wants to walk into a meeting and see legal paperwork, the boss, and a box of tissues waiting for them. It is every employee's worst day on the job...and unfortunately, their last. Then after the final meeting, financial panic sets in, depression starts, and endless job searching begins.

Much worse than the termination meeting itself can be the months of stress and anxiety ahead of time that it might happen when you are experiencing serious workplace problems. The daily stress and the toll that workplace conflict has on both a career and your self-esteem can ruin your health. But how do you diagnose what is going on and successfully keep your job?

"How Not to Get Fired" contains little known employment and human resource tactics which signal serious employment jeopardy in advance of a termination. Every chapter of this book includes insightful "HR Insider Tips" and practical self-help employment strategies to help you, the reader:

- Protect your career and emotional health when employment stress becomes unbearable

- Increase your chances of career success by stopping self-sabotaging behaviours

- Separate fear from reality and diagnose how close to termination you may be

- Determine if discipline is fair versus when it is harassment or constructive dismissal

- Master a disciplinary interview or workplace investigation

- Resolve conflict with difficult bosses and co-workers

- Gain insight when it is time to leave a role before getting fired

In a special bonus section, the author candidly answers the most common questions she hears from actual people she disciplined and dismissed.

For the very first time, this resource turns the tables to place insider knowledge into the hands of every employee. It is a must-read for any person dealing with serious job frustration and fears of being fired.