Working with colleagues after you are put at risk

These are people you have worked with - often for years.  You now represent something that they don't like.  You are now the living example of what could happen to them.  How would you react in their shoes?

Here are my top tips for surviving office politics once you are under threat of redundancy.

1. You are not gone yet.  Try your hardest to get the day job done as professionally as you can.  You will win respect for it.
2. You do not have the plague.  Act like it.  Hold your head up high.  
3. Some people are just embarrassed.  They will not know what to say to you.  Take the bull by the horns.  You mention the "r-word" first.  
4. You will have good days and bad days.  On your good days, embrace humour.  It will win you support on your bad days.  
5. There is always one idiot who thinks you deserve it.  You could just ignore him.  Or - you could remind him that if it happened to you, it will happen to him on the next round.  If he is that much of an idiot, odds are that other people have noticed and what you've said is true.
6. Be the first in the queue to applaud people if they do a good job.  In the restructure I went through, my team escaped redundancy - and I made a point of telling them all how proud I was that their efforts had been recognised.  Some of these are now an integral part of my support team.
7. The people who will be left will have to pick up your workload.  They will be worried about it.  They will probably not want to talk to you about it.  Don't ignore this.  Talk to them  You may be able to help and if you can, do it.  You will have earned valuable brownie points which you may be able to cash in at some point.
8. Your self respect will be at an all time low.  You will probably be having trouble sleeping and eating.  But try not to tell everyone all your problems or they will just start to avoid you.  Have a few valued confidants.  If they are real friends, they will continue to support you.  If not, you don't deserve them anyway.