Here is a question for someone "in the know": Back in 2015 or 2016, an individual on my extended team was put on a "Performance Improvement Plan" and they shared it with me. The tasks involved and the timeline to complete that were set out by the Manager (same guy who laid off a young mother a few days before Christmas) and HR (this was another Sauve Hynes power hungry hackjob) were very clearly unachievable. The employee worked weekends, stayed late, and was in tears one day over it. Question: why wouldn't they just lay this person off and be done with it and end the misery for everyone involved? Was this exercise to try and make her resign? Or was it to get as much work done prior the inevitable layoff? Was it to send a message to fellow staff? I remember watching it all unfold from a distance and question who the he-l I work for.
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when you are on a PIP you are a dead man walking. Plus, how does being young and a mother affect performance? It doesn't. ask the HR rep you mentioned. I guess the question is, when did this individual leave, because I'm betting they did. If anyone ever got this, they should just go on LTD and get a doctor note, because the HR folks are just building up documentation to sack them. doesn't matter, not for a second how this person felt.