pipthrowaway23

I appreciate the advice.

I've exhausted my 6 months under short-term disability and now I am trying to extend it under long-term, but it isn't looking good so far. But it doesn't matter, I need a new job ASAP to find a new apartment either way. And, as far as apartments, it will be hit-or-miss if they take my bank into account but it seems very unlikely it will be enough to satisfy them.

I'm not going to try the PIP - I know my management chain (several levels) want me to fail and to leave, and I'd rather have the extra severance than have to deal with the stress and then end up with less money after.

This post title struck a chord with me. I was PIP'd from Amazon earlier this year and am currently on a medical leave which is going to end very shortly. I'm going to have to go back to work and probably will just take the severance and GTFO because culture in my org is toxic and unreasonable, and my first PIP was designed from the start to be impossible.

I was a high performer, but have no real mentors. I have a couple friends who can provide referrals, but their companies all have hiring freezes right now - as do many tech companies from the looks of things. It's every week I see another post on HN about a company doing layoffs, and I expect more to come.

Even if I could find the motivation to grind leetcode (goodness, I hate interviewing in tech), the economy and companies are currently in a very touchy and cautious state it would seem. I'm in a HCOL area and rents since COVID are at an all-time high, and to make matters worse I need to find a new apartment in the next few months (and no job = no approval, so that's fun..)

I know I will probably be best served by finding a less paying job with a lot less stress, but that isn't exactly an easy thing to narrow down.

I'm not exactly sure what I hoped to achieve by sharing this, but I suppose it's just nice to have some camaraderie in these times and know there are others struggling too.