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25 ways to get fired

25 ways to get fired

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25 ways to get fired

- Sometimes the best way to impart best practices is to showcase worst practices. Especially if like me, you've seen others doing dopey stuff or have actually done said dopey stuff yourself. Look, I get it. There are a lot of written and more confusingly unwritten rules at work, and it's hard to navigate the gray areas. But there's some lines that are not to be crossed. Unless of course you actually want to get fired, and if that's the case you need to figure out a more graceful way to exit your job. While, there are dozens and dozens of ways to behave and act that are sure-fire methods for getting fired. For the sake of brevity and impact I'll discover the top 25. I've divided them into three brackets; One, Oppositional client behaviors, Two, Non-collaborative team tactics, and three, Counterproductive creative habits. Let's dive right into the pink slip paradigm. Oppositional Client Behaviors here are ways to thoroughly alienate, aggravate, and lose the trust of the people whom your…

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