Job Security Quiz

My boss talks to the team about the company

1. Once a week
2. Once a month
3. Once a year
4. Who is the boss?

Do you feel the boss of your company is most like

1. Stelios Haji-Ioannou
2. Richard Branson
3. Conrad Black
4. David Brent from The Office?

When you wake up in the morning do you:

1. Leap out of bed keen to get going on your latest work project
2. Go through the usual rituals with little thought or excitement
3. Get up late, dread the day ahead, struggle to get to work on time
4. Lie there, working through your stock excuses for not going into work?

How do you feel about your career?

1. I know exactly where I am, I know where I want to be and have plans in place to achieve what I want
2. I'm fairly focussed and reassess what I want about once a year
3. I'm not really sure but I've got a job I like and I'm good at
4. Who knows? I usually ask other people what they think - I'm not that sure where my talents lie

Staff morale is:

1. So high we dance on the desk
2. Not bad
3. Ok, could be better
4. Everyone grumbling on a regular basis

We've had pay rises for the last:

1. 6 years in a row
2. Twice in the last 3 years when the company did well
3. A small one just last year
4. Rise? We've had cuts for the last two.

How many days off work have you had in the last six months:

1. None, I love my job and can't wait to get there every day
2. Just one, I had a cold!
3. Several, some dodgy sick days but no-on really notices
4. I can't remember the last time I did a full week

Your line manager is:

1. Going places, fair, good sense of humour, sets you interesting projects
2. Serious, works hard, gives you more work than you would like
3. Obsessed with targets and only interested in results based on your hard work
4. A cynical, unpleasant tyrant who passes all your work off as their own and never thanks you for it?

When you read the newspaper do you

1. Never look at the jobs page - you are happy where you are
2. Look at the jobs page when things get tough
3. Regularly scan the jobs page in the hope of escaping before you jump or are pushed
4. Send for the details of every job that pays the right salary - you can always lie on the CV.

Does your company do any of the following?

1. Include all employees in free events, trips and parties
2. Freebies happen but just for senior managers
3. Holds the occasional party
4. Hands round a mince pie at Christmas then meet in the pub where you have to buy your own drinks?

Have you had any of these memos in your filing tray in the last 3 months?

1. Please make sure when ordering equipment and stock you use corporate purchasing to get the best deals.
2. All orders of equipment and consumables above £1000 must be signed off by senior managers.
3. No orders over £50 will be processed without the signature of your line manager.
4. Orders must be completed in quintuplicate, with full justification before being passed for processing and signature by your line manager, finance manager and the chief executive.