You're lucky. A PIP is basically HR creating a paper trail to justify your eventual termination (in case of lawsuits, etc).

Once the PIP starts, start asking coworkers you trust if they'll provide a reference and looking for a new gig. Your chances of coming back from a PIP are non-zero, but at the same time exceedingly low. You'll expend less effort moving to another gig with a chance you'll land with a better skilled manager (assuming your manager is the problem, and not you). You might even get a salary/comp bump out of the move.

This advice is more valid in our current, exceedingly tight, labor market and less so when unemployment goes up again (be prepared for a longer search, network more aggressively, and have a longer emergency fund runway).

I wouldn't b surprised if lots of people comes back from a PIP. But I would be surprised if my co-workers were bragging about that time they survived a PIP.

ie. it's likely we believe the odds to be low, because it's not something people talk about.

As a manager, I know for a fact that PIPs are almost never survived in any organization I've ever been in.

Wow, that's quite Kafkaesque. Would be interested to know more about this, if you were willing to explain.

Nonetheless, glad to hear you survived a PIP.

There really isn't much else to the story. I had been at the company longer than that manager, and the person who took over for him liked me.

I will also admit that the PIP did point out some attitude problems (I had been getting a bit surly), and so I did genuinely attempt to correct that. It's something I do struggle with at times.