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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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[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As she mentioned, she only had a month in the least busy time of year to make a sale. Had her manager said anything or any available metrics indicated that her performance was insufficient, that would be one thing. To blindside her with a meeting with absolutely 0 proof of poor performance is 100% shitty management. Yeah, sometimes shit happens and the company can't keep staff, that's just capitalism. But they do morally and legally owe her the things afforded to laid off staff (especially in the case of mass layoffs). Them trying to weasel out of it shows utter disrespect for their employees, and it should be called out.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes many extenuating circumstances. Sadly she’s still open to attack since she hasn’t put any points on the board.

I understand you’re saying that this performance crap is made up so they can save money, and I agree.

But a sales position that has never closed a sale doesn’t make a good poster child for this cause of fighting back against bad performance ratings. Fact is she has not created value.

If her employment included a contract that guaranteed she could complete her ramp period, she’d have some footing.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The point isn't if she made a sale or not, it's that she was never informed of any requirement of such and was given no indication that not making a sale in her first month would lead to termination. Where are the manager notes indicating she was performing poorly? Where are the metrics that she's failing to meet? Where is the contract saying she must make a sale in the first month after the ramp period? If her performance was really the issue, this information would be readily available. The fact that it's not, and that many others had been fired the same day with the same lack of warning, shows that this is a disingenuous deflection to avoid giving her was is owed.