Hi all,
TLDR: I work in a research institute and just got put on a PIP after asking to move teams. It feels retaliatory and the PIP seems a bit odd.
My group is a bit toxic and I asked my manager (who I felt at the time was a good guy – a mistake in hindsight) to transfer to another team. He didn't take this well. After mostly taking parting shots, he ended the meeting saying he didn't want bad blood and he didn't want the org to lose me. But he also said he wouldn't help me find another team, I had to ask around myself. I've been having a hard time finding a team, and he recently insisted I must leave his team by the timeline we talked about and that he is (bizarrely) not asking me to leave the org. A week later he sends an email saying I'm on a PIP.
Most PIP threads here seem to be about people in private companies, not public ones. I'm confused by the PIP. It's sent by the manager (with HR reps CC'd to observe). My performance is suddenly poor and a few awards I got recently apparently don't count. I have to drop everything and do this entirely different project in 90-days (with intermediary milestones). There are no formal consequences (the usual "refusal or failure to complete will result in disciplinary action up to and including dismissal"), other than my performance evaluation may be affected (not sure when). He said I can respond for the record, but I cannot refuse the PIP.
Can PIPs work like this in Japan? I didn't even know they had PIPs in research. I mean why try to dismiss me immediately, they could just not renew my contract next year.
by rickconvenient