Listen to this - TRUE TALES OF THE WORKFORCE: At my last job I got put on Performance Improvement Plan (also known as a PIP) because my reports lacked "crisp insights"

[smurfco]

That is how it looked. This was before covid hit and the guy that recommended that I get put on the PIP was one of the first ones laid off. Eventually I got taken off of the PIP, only to be put on a second PIP. This was right when I found a new job so I never signed the second one. Everywhere I ever worked, before or since (current job), I've gotten excellent performance reviews. I don't know what these guyses' deal was with me but they had me working on the absolute most dogshit projects and then got on my case because I couldn't spin gold out of dogshit.

Anyways if you're going through it at work, hang in there! It gets better. Well, not always. In fact it usually doesn't. But it did for me.

 

[Honkridge]

Belongs in the "New Yorker Style" cartoon section.

 

[Motorik]

In Charles Dickens' Great Expectations Joe Gargery is often heard to exclaim 'What larks Pip!'. It's that kind of cavalier attitude to performance improvement that limits him to being a humble blacksmith. Take it seriously, Joe.

 

[smurfco]

In Charles Dickens' Great Expectations Joe Gargery is often heard to exclaim 'What larks Pip!'. It's that kind of cavalier attitude to performance improvement that limits him to being a humble blacksmith. Take it seriously, Joe.

usually this kind of literary reference would be lost on me, and today is no exception

 

[smurfco]

Belongs in the "New Yorker Style" cartoon section.

 

[Andrew Sak]

Frito-Lay?

 

[jp_nyc]

I got out of the workforce before PIPs were a thing. I probably would have got a new one every week because I was a right cunt in my twenties.

 

[Knox in Box]

 

[jrockbridge]

If things don't work out to my satisfaction, I throw a live grenade at the problem. I'm not going to claim this method always works to solve the problem. Yet, somehow I always seem to feel better about things after the resulting explosion and fire damage.

 

[surfsteve]

Mojo. Retired one month now. So liberating. Right before I left I had the greatest boss ever. He retired last year. Replacement was a nightmare. Couldnt retire fast enough.

 

[Porfirio]

In Charles Dickens' Great Expectations Joe Gargery is often heard to exclaim 'What larks Pip!'. It's that kind of cavalier attitude to performance improvement that limits him to being a humble blacksmith. Take it seriously, Joe.

Wot I meanter say, is yer work lacks crisp insights.

 

[Dudeman1967]

My wife always jokes that she’s going to put one of our kids on a PIP. They straighten up pretty quick.

 

[TomcatMF]

I just passed my 20 year anniversary at my current employer. I've been very fortunate throughout my career to have good bosses.

 

[bsman]

So, did your performance improve? Your narrative lacks insight and needs improvement...