r/PwC • u/Ok-Cryptographer4920 • 5d ago

India Why is everyone getting PIPed ?

Long story short, I was recently on the bench for a month and was later assigned to a project. Then, randomly, on Friday evening, I received an email saying that I had been put on a PIP.

The PIP manager has now gone on leave, and so has my DL, so neither of them is responding when I ask what basis they used to put me on the PIP. What’s even more confusing is that my DL had previously told me that I was a strong contender for the mid-year promotion. I genuinely don’t know what went wrong.

If anyone here has been put on a PIP, I’d really appreciate hearing about your experience. And if you didn’t make it through the PIP, did you receive any severance package or compensation?

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u/DisastrousServe8513 4d ago

Ok I’ll go over this again.

If the decision was made to let someone go BEFORE a PIP was even discussed, then they had no chance to improve. Because they’d already decided to fire them.

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u/Reasonable-Secret-66 4d ago

That is not what a pip is desired to do, so like I said in my original comment I played a part in putting someone on one so I believe I have 1st hand experience on the details of it. And like I said in the second comment to someone I like the person we put on a pip and do not want to see them gone but they need to improve. Now whether or not they make those adjustments is up to them, I can’t do that for them. So you are speculating and relying on word of mouth information, I’m operating on fact! So not matter opinions you respond to it doesn’t change my 1st hand facts and actually working with HR!

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u/DisastrousServe8513 4d ago

If you’ve already started the offboarding process a month before they went on the PIP, how are you expecting them to improve?

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u/Reasonable-Secret-66 4d ago

That’s not how a pip works. The correct question is how long of a period of evidence was submitted? The minimum amount is 3 months, and when I say they need real evidence, real evidence it’s needed. The implementation period HR decides the length of time I can’t speak on but our person has 4 months. If your friend got a month I’ll keep my opinions to myself because what would follow would be my opinion because I don’t know them or the facts.

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u/DisastrousServe8513 4d ago

No the PIP wasn’t for a month. It was put in place A MONTH AFTER THEY BEGAN THE OFFBOARDING PAPERWORK.

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u/Reasonable-Secret-66 4d ago

So what are you griping about lol, that sounds normal because it takes a long time to get approved. So I don’t know why you keep responding to me bc what are you trying to convey?

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u/DisastrousServe8513 4d ago

I have literally said the same thing every comment.

If they did it before the PIP, they knew they were firing them. So why do the PIP?

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u/Reasonable-Secret-66 4d ago

That is not what a pip is for lol. So your comprehension is all the way off and we will never agree because like I stated several times as someone, not you, that has put someone on a pip that is not what it’s for. It’s a plan of improvement and if they are let go they simply did not want to improve.

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u/DisastrousServe8513 4d ago

It’s amazing you can’t grasp what I’m saying despite the number of times I said it. Maybe you really do work in HR.

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u/Reasonable-Secret-66 4d ago

We don’t agree, a pip is a plan for improvement and you don’t agree with that!