There are telltale signs when you have reached the pinnacle of your career at an organization and it’s time to start looking for a new job:
- You start justifying why it’s okay to come into work after 9AM.
- Working from home is just the excuse you use to stay home and catch up on your laundry.
- Your wardrobe consists of the same black pants every day of the week.
- Coworkers start referring to the local Starbucks as your new office.
- You take naps in your car during lunch.
- You don’t smoke but you find yourself going outside with random colleagues for smoke breaks.
- It doesn’t take much to find an excuse for a mid-day run to Krispy Kreme.
- The phone in your office is automatically forwarded to voice-mail so you don’t have to listen to it ring.
- Most conversations with coworkers are held via instant message instead of face-to-face.
- Flip flops are embraced as business casual.
- Your favorite words at work are whatevs, yo.
- You stick the latest People Magazine into an old copy of Fortune and read it at your desk.
- You browse the internets for cheap airfare and plan vacations that you’ll never take.
- When someone schedules a meeting on your calendar, you decline because it conflicts with a segment you want to hear on NPR.
- People suspect that you’re the person who is leaving
