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Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her (ody.sh)
submitted 11 months ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/videos@lemmy.world
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I can’t give more approval for this woman, she handled everything so well.

The backstory is that Cloudflare overhired and wanted to reduce headcount, rightsize, whatever terrible HR wording you choose. Instead of admitting that this was a layoff, which would grant her things like severance and unemployment - they tried to tell her that her performance was lacking.

And for most of us (myself included) we would angrily accept it and trash the company online. Not her, she goes directly against them. It of course doesn’t go anywhere because HR is a bunch of robots with no emotions that just parrot what papa company tells them to, but she still says what all of us wish we did.

(Warning, if you've ever been laid off this is a bit enraging and can bring up some feelings)

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Honestly the problem I see here is not the layoff, which was disguised as a "lack of performance". Yes, it wasn't done perfectly, but still, it's no tragedy.

What is definitely the problem here is the absolute lack of a social security system in the US. That should be implemented.

[–] aard@kyu.de 2 points 11 months ago

Here in Europe the 4 months she was at would be somewhere mid to end of the trial period, during which you can be let go without having to provide a reason on relatively short notice. This is also pretty much the only chance you get to easily let go a specific individual - so if there are indications it'll not work out doing just that is a good idea.

But having that done by arbitrary HR drones is just crazy, and obviously you'll be entitled to unemployment benefits or other social benefits after that.