Many people have written about "Signs You're Getting Terminated," but all those articles miss the natural progression that usually occurs.  These signs don't appear scatter shot around you like the pellets of a shotgun blast.  No, it's more ordered than that.  There are a series of steps that occur before you are terminated.  One leads to the next, like the steps of "walking the plank" toward termination and falling into the cold ocean of unemployment. Through my decade of practicing employment law and through my previous years in human resources, I came to recognize a pattern that almost always occurs, with only slight variations, anytime an employee is fired. Due to these rough economic times, I've added a step at the beginning which is not always there, but certainly increases … [Read more...]