5 Surefire Ways To Lose Your Job

Want to get fired? Here are 5 ways to do it.

So, you want to get fired? Maybe the job is too hard, it's boring or do you just feel like your job is sucking out your soul? Perhaps you want to cash in on those lucrative unemployment benefits? If so, you've found the right article.

The truth is, no one really wants to lose their jobs, especially in this tough job market. Many people who are out of work have been discovering that finding a new one isn't as quick or as easy as they had thought. If you are having trouble at work and find any of these things to be true about your performance, you might want to take some steps to correct them in order to not find yourself out of work.

Here are 5 Surefire Ways to Lose Your Job:

1. Calling in sick too often – Everyone gets sick from time to time and when that happens, you need to take a day or two to get better and prevent spreading your illness around the office. However, if you are calling in too often or always on Fridays and Mondays, you might end up without a job faster than you think. Employers need to have people they can depend on to do the work. If you have an attendance problem, you should try to find solutions so that you can be at work when you are needed.
   
   
2. Neglect personal hygiene – No one likes to work with people who are unkempt or just plain smell bad. If you come to work rumpled up and reeking of booze or just don't like to shower, you will probably have a tough time keeping a job. Especially in careers in the healthcare industry where you have to work with patients, being sloppy or having unappealing odors will cause your clients to run for the door.
   
   
3. Be a wallflower – If you don't interact with others or let your boss see your accomplishments, no one will know what you do or how you contribute to the office. Networking is important in any field, and it is important to adapt to the corporate culture and get involved with the team. People who don't like to be team players frequently find themselves looking for new jobs.
   
   
4. Be a complainer, a gossip or just hang out with them – Even if you aren't a gossip yourself, spending all of your time with the office gossip or the complainers will have you marked as such. Which is all good, if you are looking to be replaced. However, if you are trying to succeed at your job, you should try to network with co-workers who are achievers. Although you can be marked guilty by association with negative people, the opposite is true. If you spend your time with over achievers, you will be considered one too.
   
   
5. Never take responsibility – Always make an excuse as to why something went wrong and how a mistake happened. Admitting your mistake, learning from it and moving on is what people do when they actually want to keep their jobs. If you are looking for a way out, just blame everyone else in the office when things go wrong.

What other things can you do to lose your job? I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

By Melissa Kennedy- Melissa is a 9 year blog veteran and a freelance writer for HealthcareJobsiteBlog. Along with helping others find the job of their dreams, she enjoys computer geekery, raising a teenager, supporting her local library, writing about herself in the third person and working on her next novel.