I was in a group that had a ton of bogus PIPs. What they do is not an official PIP through HR that's filed with the company, but still give you some bogus c-ap that your performance is bad and you have been officially warned (again, but not an official PIP, though HR helps you through this fake PIP process). Then they make your life miserable until you quit. My group had as many as 30-40% of the people on these fake PIPs and almost none of them were not bad performers, not even by a stretch. This is a new VP's way to clean out the group to bring in his own cronies. Much easier than official PIP and it gets the person out which is their ultimate goal.
This is something that I’ve seen too. Think more people should see this. @Xjgk9Ha-2pcy thanks for the post.