‘Performance Improvement Plan is pretty much them quiet firing you’: Recruiter says to look for a new job ASAP if placed on PIP
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/pip-quiet-firing/
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That’s because there aren’t any projects. Or clients. It’s all fake. IBM Watson health queries were sent to an overseas call center. Yes I’m being serious.
What happened to eagle?
What happened to ibm Watson health?
What happened to crypto verifier?
It’s all b.s.
I don't know of any projects that are all in one place.....product dev or internal, not a single one.
The previous WFH ban - we lost a few top people because they weren't close to anything. And one site in Colorado said "we're full!!!" to our manager who needed an employee seat.
The previous WFH ban however - all Dev mgmt cared about was being seated at a Dev site (which meant almost anywhere except very sales focused sub offices).
Indeed they showed my boss how to check his compliance - and it was strictly based on the key code that indicates "assigned an office" and not where (WFH another code and one for "Doesn't need an Office").
It was more ruthless for other functions. A friend who's very senior in Biz Dev lots a colleague, who was seated in CO, as refused to move to RTP or the other allowed site. And a star performer as near none of that work required being onsite much less at a specific site.
But starting with the "Agile Workplace" they wanted all functions co-located for a product/product area. And that is happening in this area moving people between sites (and mostly to one site) with PM et al amongst the Dev and such.
So I could see them being harsher/stricter on co-locating based on projects. Still our project is staffed at half dozen sites in US also China, Germany, ...
I think also - how does each site behave? Differently (at least in the past)
- - colleagues in Austin said it was a police mentality with "floor/area" leads - independent of any project or management chain - keeping (at least loose) track of empty seats - and reporting them to their manager. Coupled with managers getting main door badge summaries.
- - colleagues in RTP/Durham - absolutely non of any of that. No floor police no badging summary reports.
Not to mention so many orgs starting the 3 day in office talk. I wouldn’t be surprised if they skip pips and just try to mandate collocating at their absolute worst locations to force us out.
To @1ike I think that was from Rick ... so ... coming from A. We'll see if A discusses that directly in his next AHUPYA
Hmm. Recent upper level storage all hands - stated a metric of 10% certainly must be underperforming (otherwise why is IBM in such a predicament??) and thus 10% should be put on PIP.
Wouldn’t that be bad news for the under performing pieces of “systems” (scale out HW their cloud interactions, and the folks who service and support them) Enterprise iterations currently are booming
That's bad news for the Systems folk then.