Thread regarding IBM layoffs

Extra efforts on PIP

I hope I won't be put on PIP. What do you think, what percentage of employees who are placed on PIP actually survive them? Is it even worth making extra efforts to try to save the job, given that impossible goals serve to make it easier for IBM to get rid of employees?

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Manager here. Most people don't survive PIPs. They are 95% of the time engineered to get someone out of IBM at a lower cost vs the typical layoff.

My advice is that if you are PIPed, you are better off spending your remaining time looking for a job outside of IBM.

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Post ID: @1bfd+1hWgZIwK

Yes lots of people survive PIPs. If you take the feedback, and deliver on what your job expects of you, then yes.

If you don’t, or play the victim, or think the game is against you…you surely won’t.

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Post ID: @1oxq+1hWgZIwK

Gotta question why you think you would be on PIP? You said impossible goals but that would your whole team AND FLM be in pip.
Just think you are lazy and not being truthful to yourself. If you’re not happy at IBM, go look elsewhere.

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Post ID: @1jqi+1hWgZIwK

Must have been Canadian

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Post ID: @1pdl+1hWgZIwK

Our team had the worst possible worker ever, yet they survived a PIP.

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Post ID: @1nnn+1hWgZIwK

I also hope you won't. But the actual question you want to post is: "Have you or has anyone you know survived a PIP?" I personally guess that the number who have is really small but I don't know that much.

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Post ID: @bmi+1hWgZIwK

Now days PIP is a way of getting rid of you without paying you a dime.

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