PIPped in October. Laid off in November. I know what that was.

In October I was put on a Performance Improvement Plan. "Communication style." Vague enough to cover almost anything. I'd never had a negative review. My 360 feedback was positive. The PIP came out of nowhere. In November the layoff round hit AWS. The colleagues I spoke to who'd also been PIpped in October — we were across completely different organisations. We hadn't known each other. What we had in common was PIPs in the preceding six to eight weeks. I'm not a lawyer. I can't prove what I suspect. But a PIP that arrives six weeks before a layoff round, targeting people across multiple teams who don't know each other, is not about performance. I accepted the severance. But I want this written somewhere that isn't behind an NDA.