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0 pointssteveklabnik8y ago0 comments

This is not the only story I've heard about this kind of thing, at various places of employment.

At-will means "for basically any reason." PIPs are used to try and demonstrate cause so that collecting benefits is harder.

It's not always in these words, sometimes it's presented as "culture fit", which is a bit broader but "communication style" fits under it.

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chollida18y ago

> PIPs are used to try and demonstrate cause so that collecting benefits is harder.

I mean, I'd agree that someone at some point in time has used a PIP for this reason, but I'd strongly argue that this is wrong.

I'd argue a much more charitable and accurate description of why PIP's are used is to protect the company from a litigious former employee. They are designed to show that they company tried to help the fired employee before they took the final action of letting them go.

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