I'm a middle manager and my boss has directed me to "manage someone out." No PIP. No coaching. No firing them. My boss sucks right?

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For the record, coaching wouldn't benefit here. We've tried and tried and tried and can't get any lessons to stick. They cant do what their role demands and there's no other role to move this person into. It would be better and more humane to let this person go in my opinion.

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You just described what should be a PIP. Managing out is a miserable way to handle it for everyone involved. Sorry, your boss sucks.

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Maybe I’m naive but why would this be preferable to firing someone?

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Yes would love to hear what this looks like? Pretty sure this has been my life for the past 2 years

I know a Creative Director who was hired only to learn that the reason they hired him was to fire an entire team. It was a really fraught and political situation. His boss didn’t want to do the dirty work, so they hired someone else to get their hands dirty.

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Is there some expectation on timing? Or is it a weird open-ended/indefinite situation…just waiting/hoping a resignation is forthcoming?

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Well, you may be in a very protracted standoff.

Is this someone you’ve already managed directly or are you being assigned to manage them out? If it’s the latter, I would try to help them turn it around. If you’ve already been managing them, that’s a terrible position to be in. That’s your reputation that could be scarred by “managing them out.” People talk. If you’re brutal to them, people will know.

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“Managing out” is typically setting expectations, gathering a case for a PIP, giving the PIP and firing. What your boss is instructing you to do is bizarre.

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Pretty sure that’s illegal. I would advise against following that instruction.

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