This company ruined my life and PIP’d me for taking time off to mourn. They took from me my passion for what I do and made me realize how quickly someone will throw you under a bus.
Scheming managers. They did a soft layoff where they were forced to PIP a certain number of employees, I had never had a performance conversation or a negative comment and the manager fabricated evidence for a pip (including asking for advice, taking sick time when my dad died, and calling in a senior engineer during a high severity outage). I’ve personally spoken to multiple other engineers that had the exact same thing happen to them.