You can feel it in your bones. You can sense it all around you. Your intuition is telling you: "I'm going to lose my job today!"

But how do you really know when your time is up at work? Are there signals from your manager/boss/fellow employees? Is there a sign from God? Or are all of these just happening at once?

1. Oops, someone forgot to invite you to a meeting
2. You're being allocated less and less work
3. Your boss and your bosses boss look at you while they talk to each other
4. Your boss does not bat an eye when you show up to work late or leave a few minutes early
5. Your boss does not look at you in the eye when he/she speaks to you
6. People in HR have suddenly taken an interest in you
7. You start getting calls from your agency to contact them right away
8. Your bank has just merged with another bank so layoffs are sure to happen, or worse yet...
9. Your bank has just announced a loss of £45 billion for the year, or even worse...
10. Your bank has just announced that it is going under

And if your bank is really unorganised, your security pass or password will suddenly no longer work. Apparently, this really happens!

Here Is The Writer : Tim Baros

Tim Baros has worked in the derivatives industry for several large financial institutions in both the U.S. and the U.K., and one now-defunct financial products company. Tim moved from New York City to London in 2003 to take advantage of the many job opportunities that London had to offer in the banking sector, easily qualifying for a Highly Skilled Migrant Programme Visa. Unemployed but now a UK resident, Tim spends some of his day looking for another job in finance and other parts of the day either at the gym, in the pubs, clubs, or just about anywhere, really.

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