[echlebek]

I was also under the impression that PIP was a way to slow-roast firing someone, not something that would be temporary.

[lisasays]

It is basically, and you're supposed to get the "hint".

But the way it's structured - at least on paper, there's supposed to be some way in which you can pass the "test" and endure an extra run of gaslighting and ostracization until they figure out another way to get rid of you.