You cannot transfer if you are officially on PIP. PIP officially started Sep 1..
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I know someone who got transferred on PIP. The receiving group has had a lot of attrition
Sometimes a receiving manager will take on a “project “, such as you, to turn them around and show how good a manager they are. May initially be given some bad assignments just to se how rehabilitatable you are, but hang in there, make new manager look good and you’ll be off to the races. This coming from someone who had to do this 3 time in the last 34 years.
There are many cases where older people were at the bottom of the rank list yet it was widely known that they were excellent at their specialty.
If you are known to be excellent, you can get assigned expat job despite ranking, unless some di----t manager throws a kid with a big sponsor into the running for the position.
In the olden days, transferring out was a way to slowly recover one’s ranking. It made sense because it would be difficult to improve relative to your colleagues in the current group that were already deemed better. I know a couple of persons for whom the strategy work. The compounding example is not very accurate. Above average, solid workers do not get 10% per year for 10 years in a row.
But nobody knows how things will evolve with the new system.
Any average intelligence manager knows that some NSI persons now are there arbitrarily so they will be more willing to take them. Besides, many groups are so low in HC that they will take anyone.
One thing to know: you cannot transfer while on PIP.
Think about it, if you are a manager and looking to take in someone from another team to fill a role, will you take in someone who is ranked NSI? likely not because NSI = PIP = lousy performer. You will likely have zero confidence that this person can perform in your team and not cause you problems, and no manager wants to spend a lot of time to guide and teach a low performer. Unless they have good reason to believe that it was simply a wrong job fit, it takes a huge leap of faith for managers in the new location/ team to take in an NSI person. Therefore most folks in NSI/ PIP continue to languish until they retire.
There is more hope for a relatively young person who got PIP to climb up the curve, but it would also mean negative compunding effect on their lifetime salary. If we have two young people starting on the same base pay of $100k, the very average performer will make $206k in 10 years at 7.5% average annual increment, while the low performer will be making only $148k in 10 years at 4% annual increment. For the young person, do they want to be languishing, while their peers, even the average performers (not excellent or HiPos) are already making $206k? The HiPos or excellent folks are already in the $300+k range in 10 years.
You are tagged a loser. That will never leave your record.
Apply to others and get out ASAP
Yes. Consider it a short reprieve from the governor.
The guillotine operator is on vacation in Cozumel.
Yes, after 1 PIP, you are axed in the future.
If close to retirement, hang in.
If not, better have already started looking…
I can only comment about past PIPs. You are not able to be transferred while in the bottom ranking. The people I knew that were stayed at the bottom for years and some made to the middle. By the time they made to the middle they were older and started to drop because of age. Two that I know were PIPed in the early career and in the end. They left because of PIP and retired early.
pretty much answered yourself