Walk away on your own terms if you get put on PIP

If you know you are competent in your job and your manager presents you with a bogus PiP DONT sign whatever you do and just walk off the job. Yes you are fired but you would have been fired anyway. The Dirty secret of PiPs is that in most cases the worker is set up to Fail (intentionally vague “offenses” and deficiencies with impossible goals for passing). Think about it if manager and HR really wanted you to improve why the need for official documentation and paper trails? The most insidious is that PiPs are often given to the most loyal hard working who can’t believe the company would screw them over to avoid paying severance these people go the extra mile trying to meet these impossible plan goals and they end up fired while their manager gets a bonus. Trust me I saw this happen at Walmart and if there is any mention of a performance plan you immediately quit Do not wait around for them to screw you over and Do not waste any more precious time effort and life working for a psychopath have some dignity and self respect and quit on your own terms

What @Qgx4woj-1hrx said. Seen this happen several times. Good, hard working employees being put on PIP. Makes absolutely no sense at all, except that it's a setup to failure. Just walk away.

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If you can afford to quit, quit. You will leave on your terms without a layoff on your employment record. As stated above, you’ll be fired anyway. Why endure the humiliation?

No arguing intended. Please take a few minutes to research. Sign the PIP, and note the PIP is false. Stay in compliance with policy because chances are WM isn't.

Get together with other PIP's for a common reason. Were you told to write the ways you would improve?

You have no input or influence whatsoever to your own PiP. Your manager and HR will document a long list of offenses (reasons you s--- at your job). If you sign, and you must to avoid getting fired on the spot, you GIVE UP YOUR LEGAL CASE FOR GETTING UNEMPLOYMENT. Because you've signed the official document acknowledging to the world and the U.S. legal system that YOU CAN'T DO YOUR JOB and YOU DESERVE TO BE FIRED you lose legal recourse to demand unemployment.

Now if you foolishly agree to sign the PiP rather than quit ON YOUR OWN TERMS, you've validated all the manager's bogus offenses regarding your performance and capabilities for the entire world to see. At this point you better hope your manager takes pity on you and gives you some reachable goals in the improvement plan that THEY AND HR WRITE ALONE WITH ZERO INPUT OR INFLUENCE FROM YOU. From what I've seen at Walmart recently, the improvement plans manager comes up with are unreasonable, impossible, and go so far as to ADD COMPLETELY NEW SKILLS AND RESPONSIBILITIES (with 30-45 day deadlines to master and demonstrate them) to your plate - and any slip ups from you (real or bogus) once that 30-45 day mark rolls around you're fired.

You can go ahead and listen to nfa and sign the PiP, demean yourself, work your butt off for them for 30-45 days and get fired anyway. Your manager would be a happy camper having a stooge to do all their crap work while firing someone without paying severance. Ultimately this is your livelihood, you will make your own decisions, I am just trying to share what I've seen at Walmart and help my fellow employees because what I see happening to these good, loyal people is just so shocking appalling and just plain wrong

Don't quit. If they fire you, you can still get unemployment. If you quit you can't get it.

Did you write an improvement plan to the performance issues your manager wrote in your PIP?

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