SCRIPT CHECK · 60 SECONDS
Five quick questions show how often it appears, how believable it feels, and what it makes you avoid. You’ll get one private next step.
This is not a diagnosis and there is no pass or fail. It measures the current frequency, credibility, and behavioral cost of “Every quiet week is a warning sign”, including the private rule underneath it: Every signal from leadership is a clue about whether I'm next. Post-layoff survivors distrust organizational communication because the environment already proved it can change suddenly. The hypervigilance feels rational, not paranoid. But…
QUIET
“Every quiet week is a warning sign” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “The hypervigilance made sense the day the layoffs happened. It's not new information—it's a loop replaying the same fear.”
PRESENT
“Every quiet week is a warning sign” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “A rescheduled 1:1 is usually just someone's calendar moving, not a signal about my job.”
ACTIVE
“Every quiet week is a warning sign” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Write down three completely ordinary events from this week—rescheduled meeting, quiet Friday, routine all-hands—with no interpretation. Just facts. Check the list in seven days. Repeat for two more weeks to see the pattern that makes no prediction.
DOMINANT
Right now, “Every quiet week is a warning sign” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Write down three completely ordinary events from this week—rescheduled meeting, quiet Friday, routine all-hands—with no interpretation. Just facts. Check the list in seven days. Repeat for two more weeks to see the pattern that makes no prediction.