If you hold a job-any job-you are a potential target. This book will tell you how to weigh the odds and stack them in your favor against becoming a victim of the pink slip. Most who no longer hold a meaningful employment never recognized that they were victim of the downsizing axe until it was too late. From the perspective of the author, who has literally interviewed and debriefed thousands of downsized employees at all levels, a great bulk of these individuals could have avoided their own job demise. Many who no longer hold jobs lost them not for lack of performance but rather for a lack of political, cultural, and people awareness in their own workplace. in "How to Avoid the Pink Slip," Wesley Poriotis wakes up the slumbering worker and tells him or her how to build their own Doppler radar, a system that will alert them to thye need to don fully waterproof gear, raise an umbrella, or simply dodge the raindrops. In other words, how to prevent falling victim to the unseen-or unrecognized-winds that swirl aound them every working day.

Readers of "How to Avoid the Pink Slip" are advised to remember that there is always an imaginary bounty on their heads, and to view themselves as the bean counters often see them-not as individual contributors but as an overhead, when eliminated, lifts the company stock prices.

But all is not lost, Poriotis, through the ample use of personal experiences as illustrations, shows that office politics need not be fatal and that survival in the workplace is definitely possible.

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