Warning Signs

[alreadypacked]

You arrive on client site, and settle into a new contract. But thing don't seem right, is it just a new environment or are they warning signs to look for something new, quickly?

All the senior member of the team have left or are due to leave soon. Check
No one is making decisions, waiting for an announcement. Check

Anything else?

[MrMarkyMark]

Permies looking more like rabbits in headlights than usual.
Plenty of spaces in the car park, when you get in, in the morning.
Members of staff missing at different times of day.
Members of staff making plenty of furtive phones call, in the lift or out in the kitchen.
Bailiffs are in.

[MrMarkyMark]

Another bad sign is people you've never seen before giving remarkable amounts of attention to the firm's books.

[Chuck]

Keep an eye on the man who signs your timesheet. That is all that matters.

[MrMarkyMark]

FTFY

Especially when they're wearing suits and work for PWC.

[WTFH]

You're asked to sign paper every day relating to your work (but not relating to you getting paid for it)

The phrase "you've got a meeting with the external auditors"

[MrMarkyMark]

The bosses son is in, clearing the stationary cupboard and loading any "available" IT hardware into a Chelsea tractor.

[WTFH]

When the finance department recruit someone as maternity cover in Accounts Payable. Their CV doesn't mention any financial experience or qualifications. It does say they spent 3 years as a "Stock Manager at John Lewis". Turns out this was when they were 16 and they had a part time job stacking the shelves.

[minestrone]

Posters in the traps asking you not to stand on the toilet seat.

[MrMarkyMark]

Posters in the traps asking you not to stand on the toilet seat or wash your feet, after, in the stalls.