I survived a PIP
Hello, I recently posted here a few times about my PIP, just wanted to thank this group for all the advice you all gave. If you are experiencing this as well, here are some things I did that helped:
- check within your company to find out their culture around PIPs. So many people online told me it was a done deal, but I found that there were multiple people at my job who survived a PIP so at my company they are meant to be rehabilitative.
- take notes in the PIP. Make them go line by line and explain one by one each item and make them pause while you give clarification (if you want, there is also the approach of just accepting whatever they say)
- take the notes and make a plan for yourself (you can use AI for this). Make sure you are fulfilling all of those things, this will make it harder (but not impossible) for them to get rid of you
- get involved in initiatives that are public facing and over communicate with your manager on initiative updates. Make sure they are seeing the work you're doing. If you can get others to talk you up, do so
Nothing can stop a PIP if they want to get rid of you, but these are some things that helped me.