To keep it from being misused, imagine you need a majority of direct reports to agree that the manager should be put on PIP.
Report to your skip
😂😂😂
I almost asked if anyone had ideas on how to accomplish this a few months ago. Instead I got her fired, and myself shortly after 😆
Lol. Sounds funny. What happened?
I worked for a tiny tiny company in Boise. The engineering department was set up with a CTO, a manager, and the engineers. Shortly after I started, the CTO was let go for cause. A new CTO was found, but she was kinda incompetent. She didn’t have the right energy, was constantly changing directions, and did a lot of negative things that reduced morale. I ended up managing under her when I tried to leave. The business gave me a large bonus and a promotion to stay. Things went ok for a while, but I got so fed up after her antics on Black Friday that I let the business know I couldn’t continue managing for her and would be leaving when my contract was up. Another C level in the company (marketing CMO) also threatened to leave at the same time. The business decided to let the CTO go. I figured that since I had been running most of the department and projects that I could continue doing this and everything would be groovy. However the business decided to put marketing (the CMO) in charge of our department. She had no idea what was going on in our department and started out by bringing in an outside consultant to tell her if our tech would be OK (it was fine). Her plan was to put all of the senior developers together to figure out plans. This amounted to a demotion for me and a promotion for another developer who was an idiot. I checked out mentally and planned to wait out my contract, but luckily they let me go early! I’d still be working there if they hadn’t, as I would’ve had to pay back the bonus otherwise. Now I’m moving across the country to live my best life working at Disney, and I couldn’t be happier!
Why on Earth would any company do this?
To prevent a good team from leaving
Had this happen at my last team. Skip had to spend 6 months meeting with ICs and begging people not to jump ship before they could finally get rid of the manager.
I think any employee should be able to PIP any other employee at any time anonymously at pip.amazon.com. Each employee gets one PIP per fiscal year.
That’s innovation
So basically turn corporate life into one big season of Survivor?
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Feedback goes both ways.
But action doesn't 🤷♀️
Your skip will protect your manager unless all your teammates give really bad feedback at the same time.