Why is "nicer" in quotes? Who are you quoting, or even paraphrasing? Objective criteria for PIPs has nothing to do with niceness. Are you aware that this is a

Why is "nicer" in quotes? Who are you quoting, or even paraphrasing? Objective criteria for PIPs has nothing to do with niceness. Are you aware that this is a standard part of union contracts in general... like one of the first things usually negotiated? > Adults don't give feedback in a transparent way and this is because they don't want to look discriminatory. Modern employment and HR policies have done great things, but they've made the waters for this kind of communication even more opaque and pushed incentives that way as well. If I'm understanding your comment correctly, you're against opaque communications? Then, establishing these criteria in a contract is as transparent as you can get.