Does pip mean I’m getting fired?
I’ve been at this job 60 days. It’ll be 90 first week of May. I was informed today that they are extending my probation 30 days and placing me on a pip.
The pip defines that they feel I don’t do a great job with communicating and building rapport with a few of my team members. This is the first time it’s been brought up. It’s sort of worded as a probation review.
There’s 6 of us full time staff + 3 temp workers. Truthfully get along fine with 3 of the full time and 1 temp. The other 2 full time we work professionally and cordially but I don’t talk to them much. 1 I just don’t talk to because of differing views, she loves AI and using AI for everything, I’m not a fan of current use of AI.
Well. Management thinks I don’t collaborate or ask them for support enough even though we have our own assignments. I’ve been told: my work is great, the quality meets expectations, my attendance is great, my work with clients is good.
The pip details that they want me to meet with management 1x a week until end of probation to check in and talk about how I am engaging with my peers and highlight areas I’ve asked for help.
I ask questions when I have questions. But I just work. I don’t chit chat and whatnot or care about what the latest AI trend is.
Does this pip mean they don’t think I’m worth keeping and just getting paper trail to let me go?
Optimism says if they wanted to. They could fire me today since I’m on probation. Pessimism says they are doing it as a legal thing so they can fire me later.
I love the job and what I do. But the work does have issues. Our team fits 16 full time. The longest staff have been here 2 years. 3 of us started together. The others were sporadic between them. So retention is a huge problem.