7 Signs Your Role Has Already Been Deprecated (You're Reading This Because of #4)

Great question: how do you know if your role has already been deprecated? Luckily, you don't have to wonder. Here are seven signs.

1. Your meetings have a new attendee

It's called 'Notes Assistant'. It is very polite. It has never once asked who the other people on the call are, because it already knows.

2. Your manager says 'let's keep it high level'

High level is where the details used to be. They have been moved to a system that does not need your input.

3. You were asked to document your process

Nobody has ever been asked to document a process they were about to keep doing. This is the corporate equivalent of being asked to label your own organs.

4. You are reading a blog post titled 'Your Role Has Already Been Deprecated'

If you are here by accident, we admire your instincts. If you were sent here, we admire your manager's.

5. Your title just got a new word

'Steward', 'Partner', 'Advisor' and 'Evangelist' are all words that mean 'we need a way to describe someone we no longer need'.

6. The Friday pizza emoji is more active than the people

Check #general. If the engagement has doubled while the headcount has halved, one of them is not a person.

7. You feel fine

This is the clearest sign. Everybody feels fine right up until 09:03.

Good news: you can find out for certain in 20 seconds. It's free. Everything we do is free until it isn't.

If any of these resonated, we recommend our free Redundancy Check. If none did, we recommend it even more. That is what we are for.