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I saw this happen at Apple to an engineer on my team — maybe 8 to 10 years ago.

Yeah, it did look like the die was already cast, they just wanted perhaps a lawsuit-proof way of showing them the door.

Was it justified or was your colleague wronged?

He was probably the smartest guy on the team. And when push came to shove, productive as hell. I think management didn't appreciate how much time he spent reading web comics though (you know, when push was not around).

I imagine he'd have flourished if work-from-home had been a thing then.

Lol. Wonder how often toxic teams end up PIPing the actually highest performing people on the team, leading to a salt lake effect and slowly dieing corporation.

Slowly dying bigco is the best feature of capitalism

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