Put on a PIP? Do These 5 Things Tonight
Put on a PIP today? Here are the five things to do tonight, from someone who watched PIPs get used across 23 rounds of layoffs, plus how to tell a real plan from a Paper PIP.
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Dan Gave Them 50 Years. They Gave Him Five Minutes.
Dan gave one company nearly fifty years. They gave him five minutes and a box. Here’s what his story taught me about company loyalty, and the audit that turns loyalty from a trap into a choice.
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12 Warning Signs Layoffs Are Coming at Your Company
You know layoffs are coming when the money and the messaging tighten before the headcount does: hiring freezes, vanishing perks, executives who suddenly go quiet, and reorgs sold as “efficiency.” Any single one of these is just noise. The real signal is when three or more show up in the same quarter, and by the time it’s…
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I Survived 23 Rounds of Layoffs Without Ever Getting Fired. It Still Broke Something in Me.
What surviving 23 rounds of mass layoffs taught me about money, loyalty, and the freedom to walk away. You always knew before they told you. It was the state trooper in the lobby. Not security. An actual trooper, standing near the front doors of a billion-dollar company like something was about to go wrong. And…
