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Hi, newbie here, hoping someone can help. I have worked at the same company for 13 years and for the first time in my career I have been placed on a PIP. I work in a sales position and historically have had a successful track record however last year I had a poor year working in a sales team of four selling into manufacturing which at the end of the year was cut to two based on an acknowledgement of difficult trading conditions. I moved to a new sales team and having started from scratch this year will again fail to hit my target though I am performing better than most of my team.
A new policy was introduced earlier this year and applied retrospectively where if you fail to achieve 75% of target two years running you would be put on a PIP. I have just been placed on a PIP and whilst I was not happy I realise that I am in a sales role and ultimately judged on sales figures.When my manager had an initial meeting with me so i could put forward reasons why my performance is down and it was obvious that he wanted to go down the PIP path.
My issue is that my manager emailed the PIP document to me, has not gone through any of the details or discussed any support, the expectations are completely unachievable and has not scheduled a review session for a month after the start of the PIP, this and the no detail of support goes against company procedures for a PIP.
I have had issues with my manager before which I have aired informally with a senior manager and HR and feel that the process is designed to get me out and possibly tainted with an element of revenge. I have raised a grievance but now feel that my position is untenable, any suggestion on what I should do?
Thanks in advance
A new policy was introduced earlier this year and applied retrospectively where if you fail to achieve 75% of target two years running you would be put on a PIP. I have just been placed on a PIP and whilst I was not happy I realise that I am in a sales role and ultimately judged on sales figures.When my manager had an initial meeting with me so i could put forward reasons why my performance is down and it was obvious that he wanted to go down the PIP path.
My issue is that my manager emailed the PIP document to me, has not gone through any of the details or discussed any support, the expectations are completely unachievable and has not scheduled a review session for a month after the start of the PIP, this and the no detail of support goes against company procedures for a PIP.
I have had issues with my manager before which I have aired informally with a senior manager and HR and feel that the process is designed to get me out and possibly tainted with an element of revenge. I have raised a grievance but now feel that my position is untenable, any suggestion on what I should do?
Thanks in advance
