I am getting the sense that Black law firm associates end up on PIPs more than others
If you’re on a PIP & could use some support or have experienced a PIP before & you’re willing to help others, consider joining the “Surviving a PIP” bowl
It’s a safe space to give and get support
Important
…Include a join reason with your access request.
…Read the posts pinned to the too of the bowl about how the bowl works *before* posting
https://joinfishbowl.com/bowl_yytyiufdcb
My hypothesis is that 2024 was generally a very bad year for a lot of people, speaking generally and not about work. This is anecdotal, but the vast majority of my friends have had shockingly bad years, and I have as well.
Black people in demanding careers generally don’t have the same fallbacks and support systems that our more privileged colleagues have, which creates even more stress. Said stress ends up manifesting at work, which similarly does not provide safety nets helpful to the needs of minority attorneys. And since they don’t know how to support our needs, we end up in PIPs.
This is 100% my experience. Had a terrible personal year and bled into my work life. After years of being a star associate, one year was enough to get pushed out via PIP.
I say this 100% in an attempt to be helpful: associates on PIPs are probably not the best sources of advice to help each other because they may not know what success looks like or how to get there. So, I think your bowl is a noble effort, but it’s probably not the right approach.
Sent you a DM
Hello again fam! I have about seven join requests that don’t have a join reason and I can’t approve them
The issue is that generally speaking attorneys are not allowed into the bowl, but what I am doing is refining that to say that attorneys who defend companies against employees are not allowed in the bowl. One of the things that helps me do that is the statement that a person makes when they are requesting access to join.
This makes a lot of sense to me, and I have thought about it. But the risk isn’t worth it
I don’t put it past some of these folks to use the information in the bowl to their advantage
If you have any suggestions about how I can account for this, I would love to have them
Wish i would’ve found this bowl when i was a midlevel faced with a PIP for the first time in my career. I genuinely thought my employer was trying to help me improve so i could emerge from it successfully. Knowing what I know now, that clearly wasn’t the case.🙄