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▲ JKCalhoun 8 hours ago

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.

▲ralfd 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Was it justified or was your colleague wronged?

▲JKCalhoun 5 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

▲thelastparadise 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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.