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"At my next 1:1 meeting Munira explained “You think you’re going to get a transfer out of my group? I’m putting you into a Performance Improvement Plan which prevents transfers for 12 months”."

I remember michaelochurch making almost exactly this point about PIPs on HN in the past - that it was far too easy for them to be used a tool for employee abuse & finding yourself under a PIP was a strong signal that should move on as soon as possible, regardless of the professed reasoning behind the PIP.




A colleague once commented that these things are essentially one year notice, and you should use that time to carefully find a new job.


michaelochurch has also talked about open allocation. I am thinking that for Amazon mixing both might make sense.




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