It would be very interesting and useful to hear the experiences of those who have survived PIP before (I know there are not that many). Are there any tips or does it all come down to pure luck?
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Look dude, surviving the PIP is not a good thing either. If you don't pass it you are forced to leave the company. If you do pass it, you are MARKED for life. Your career is over. No promotions or significant salary raises for you EVER. They are just telling you that you have to go. They are just giving you a little more time. So, just leave before they PIP you again.
@1dfo+1fcHFuzg is right. Myself and 3 others I knew took the PIP in 2020 and all our supervisors said we could make it. Well we all needed up being laid off so we didn’t have time to see what would have happened.
Only a fool takes the PIP. It’s like your spouse telling you they don’t want you anymore but they will let you keep 100% assets if you leave now or you can take the matter to court and lose 50% plus the dog….key takeaway: THEY DON’T WANT YOU NO MORE
It's rigged we know. Mine was udder BS. But I had them go through the motions knowing I was going to tell them I'm retiring instead.
Best of luck to all current employees.
When I was BSI’d (July 2020), my supervisor told me that he wouldn’t be able to give me details of my PIP until some time AFTER I signed the form confirming my intention to take the PIP. All he could give were vague ideas that would have relied on the cooperation of other managers to “broaden my scope and visibility”.
I took this as an indication that no one was interested in helping save my career, so I took the PIL instead.
As others have noted, once you have been NSI’d, you are permanently labelled as underperforming and your time with the company is running out.
The PIP in Annandale is very corrupt, if your RE prepare….moral never been worse….we have nothing to offer the corporation……
Why would you care to pass? Even if you do, in the system, you are still bottom of the totem pole.
I get that passing gives you more time to find something else but the best “hope” you have is to find a new job, timing that start date to take the PIL and get 2-3 months of double pay.
With April coming, good luck.
Time that PIL right, with over 5 years and you build yourself some cushion.
Your supervisor largely knows whether they’ll pass you before you even start. Pay close attention to the requirements of the PIP and whether they are measurable and attainable.
If you trust your supervisor, then try to get a read on them and whether you think they’ll pass you, or at least give you a fair shot. If you can’t get a read, then assume they’ll fail regardless of what you do and then find a new job.
If you get PIP’d, then the fact is you shouldn’t have been PIP’d in the first place. You can do the work. It’s just a matter of figuring out if the system is rigged against you.
I passed a PIP. Trusted the supervisor when they said they’d give me a fair shot and they did. Was laid off after that.
Good luck to the next round of PIP’s you’re better than they’d have you believe. I got laid off, found a new job, and am much happier now…you can be too.
Do yourselves a favor and GET OUT!!!
PIPed people are marked and will never go far. Basically buying time until a new job can get lined up.