> The man had recently put in a request to transfer to a different department, but was placed on an employee improvement plan Having escaped from an abusive ma

> The man had recently put in a request to transfer to a different department, but was placed on an employee improvement plan Having escaped from an abusive manager myself, I can imagine what this person went though. Managers that are skilled in the art are able to inflict pain without leaving much of a paper trail. I did ask for (and got) professional help, including medication. There's only so much stress 24/7 that you are able to handle before you start to crack. Who knows what would have happened if I just tried to ride it out. I'd have gone bananas if I had been placed in a PIP instead. This was one of the possibilities identified by my branch predictor, so I was collecting a mountain of evidence against said manager. Thankfully, it wasn't needed. (I realize that nowhere in the article it says a manager was the issue, but corporate pattern-matching gets pretty good after a while)