Posts tagged relationships
How to protect yourself from being managed out

‘Being managed out’ means that your boss or company is trying to make your working life so difficult that you decide to leave. This is done in companies and countries where it’s not legally possible to simply let someone go for underperformance or because you don’t get along well with them.

There are usually two main issues for this:

  1. Low performance and not meeting targets

  2. Poor relationships and/or bad communication skills

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Safe problem. Quality problem.

You know that problem that’s been kicking around inside your head for the past 3+ months? C’mon… you know the one. It’s the first thing you think of in the morning and the last thing in your head at night. Yea, that’s the one… that’s a Safe Problem.

Safe problems are lingering issues that are within our control such as: procrastination, hesitation, overeating, blaming others for your troubles, avoiding commitment to a relationship or avoiding making a decision.

On the other hand, a quality problem is much different - you’ve had plenty of those before as well.

Quality problems involve a risky forward-thinking decision such as: changing jobs, starting a business, committing to a relationship or leaving a relationship etc.,

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