When Identifying "Low Performers" and "PIPs" Aren't About Improving Performance But Reinforcing a Clique in Your Company/Organisation
Clear misuse and deliberate misnomers
Yesterday morning we quoted a comment that said about IBM, "well are any of the low performers that you are aware of actually truly low performers? There’s your answer right there" (20 hours ago).
We've since then seen many people agreeing, based on personal experience at IBM, e.g. (highlighted below):
I know for a fact, having seen some EPO letters (cannot share them, they would expose our sources), that the EPO does the same thing. It marks down or ends up 'PIPing' highly qualified staff to make room for loyalists and friends who have neither qualification nor experience. It's the "Alicante Mafia" turning the Office into a clique, which is led by actual cocaine users.
It's very troubling to see once-respectable brands like IBM and institutions like the EPO resorting to this. █