How to cope with a blame culture and high staff turnover

[Anyonegotacluewhattheirjobsabout]

I am in a job with an American company. They seem to hire and fire pretty readily and a colleague told me after she’d resigned that she’d seen approx 8-9 people mysteriously disappear in a 3 year period in my dept since she’d worked there. Since I joined I’ve seen 2 be fired (and others mysteriously disappear in other departments). Now I see I’m starting to get criticism as if they need someone new to pick on. I’m looking for other jobs but wondered how anyone else coped with this revolving door or blame culture. I am in England so they can’t just fire me for no good reason but I don’t feel safe. I simply want to survive until I get something more secure!

Make sure your boss/ bosses boss knows what you are doing and what you have achieved. A weekly email of key things you’ve delivered each week and priorities for the next week etc- or however your reporting system works is key.
Always give solutions/ opportunities not problems.
Do not trust people will think you are doing a good job- you have to visibly prove it.
And network now for other opportunities.

I don’t quite understand your point. Aren’t you employed under U.K. rules and regulations?
It’s common in my company for people to “disappear” - ie, perhaps their job is made redundant, or they are on long-term sick leave, or they are on a sabbatical, or they just resign, or indeed they are fired for disciplinary reasons. People don’t tend to inform others in the company if they are going for any of these reasons. Only those who resign do, and not all of them either. 8-9 people in three years is nothing.