Performance Improvement Plans (PIP)? How to Respond
Published on June 15th, 2009 by Alan Sklover
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Hi Alan,
Thanks for your information on PIPS which I have found very useful.I work for the largest Telecom company in the UK & was given an Informal PIP in April which I passed O/K.5 Months down the line my company is having staff cut-backs & would you believe it, I have been given a Final Formal Warning for under performance & another much tougher PIP!My new Manager has claimed I cleared 146 faults in a period when I actually cleared 466 faults as recorded on my companies computing system.Am fighting them all the way with an Appeal.Clearly creating a negative paper trail to get me fired after 29 years trouble free & committed service. Regards Paul
I worked for a large electricity power company in Hong Kong in 2009, and weeks into the job at the IT department, the supervisor changed his behaviour from friendly to hostile. He expressed that my saying of good morning greeting to him is annoying, so I would just stay quiet all day in a cold atmosphere instead. Although I got the highest possible exam results in public english exams, he accused me of having poor english in my written reports and requested me to keep rewriting it without very clear justifications based on merits. Later they secretly colluded with HR and sent me on PIP. I felt I already had no life, no family, and only face computer problems, and outside work I still had to attend computer training courses – there wasn’t much I could do. Eventually I was terminated suddenly by being forced to sign resignation letter. They refused to issue me reference letter. So much for getting ‘respect’ for having worked over a decade in the IT field and having attained awards and certifications! I’m very tired of the pressure and the head games people play!