Startup employee put on PIP but no documentation
Hello viner, A co worker of mine has been put on PIP by the company HR based on her managers feedback. Even though she got an average rating ,she did not get along well with the Manager and he got the HR to put her into PIP. HR here mostly follow what department leads tell them.
But there are some discrepancies :
- HR has not formally sent her a email informing of the PIP procedure. This is all verbal
- Her manager also hasn't given her any concrete milestones. He just said that she will be judged based on the feedback from fellow co workers.
- Of late, the HR has been forcing her to resign even though the final date of pip period has not been reached.
Is this the normal PIP procedure followed in your companies too? Or is there something suspicious here?
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If it's a startup, most likely they are out of funding and need to let go of employee. With PIP, they will not have to pay severance and also don't put the blame on themselves that it wasn't a mistake on their end to hire her. PIP anyways is paid interview preparation
But they way they are conducting pip, is it even proper? She feels that they can start a real PIP with documentation against her since she got a meets expectations rating in March and this informal pip is just a trick to force her to resign. The HR is also not documentation anything regarding weekly goals etc.
That's how it is in most of the startups. Processes and work isn't formal
Also there are no weekly performance reviews etc. Even after talking to her manager, he did not give her any concrete set of goals based on which she will be judged. Just "feedback" from coworkers which HR can easily lie about.
guide your friend to get out with proper papers. take the screen shot of meets expectations of it is documented at all somewhere. get your payslips other supporting data etc.
start preparing and looking out. not her fault at all, if she got meets expectations.
maybe she can delay till she finds something.
Remember HR is not an independent police department, it will do what leadership tells them to do - in this case it is unethical what they are doing.
This is happening a lot these days. Lot of good people being kicked to save someome else's job.
Thank for the advice. Will convey this to her. But frankly I too work here and am shocked how unethical this org can be.
Sadly writings on the wall. She's done for. Ask her to start aggressively looking out. There's nothing good about this, but lavda anything will happen. It's a startup (read andho ki sena).
PIP is one of the greatest wastes of time and effort.