u/gingerbare66

I was given a performance improvement plan by my supervisor on Friday. I am not sure of the process but I honestly don’t think it is one that was approved by HR.

There are 5 or 6 items and only two are tied to my critical elements. One is about an instrument implementation that I supposedly did not do but everything was done last July-August 2025. I will admit that my supervisor had to help me because it was the first one I had ever done. There was an item about doing a root cause analysis on a PI metric that while updating the metric and reviewing the data is one of my critical elements there has never been any requirement to do a root cause analysis. I have gotten about 5 emails that my supervisor said in the subject line are coaching emails but I don’t know if those officially count towards counseling.

He also put in there that he his giving me training on two things that don’t even have anything to do with what he claims are my deficiencies.

I do admit that there were/are some knowledge gaps but I have continuously tried to close those gaps. My supervisor is kind of hit and miss about answering my questions. Somedays he answers them and some days he tells me to figure it out myself or I should know.

So my questions are really about the process. As in do I get some type of email or something from HR saying I am going to be out on a PIP? Would an HR representative be in the meeting? My supervisor sent me a meeting invite at 1345 for a 1215 meeting. I believe he called it performance management discussion. Does HR have to approve it and my supervisor have to have specific documentation with the proposed PIP? There was a statement saying that signing only means I received it not that I agree or disagree with the content. I am very confused and for the last year my boss has been moving the goalposts fairly frequently.

One other note is that I have an ORM complaint against my boss that was accepted for a formal investigation about a month ago, would HR know about this and approve the PIP anyway?