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Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her (ody.sh)

submitted 10 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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[–] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seems like it would also have the effect of making the employee less appealing to any potential future employers. When asked in an interview why they left their previous job, these people have to decide whether to say honestly that they were let go because of mismanagement and risk their possible new job on whether the background check includes a call to the HR department of your last employer, or give the line that would match the HR record and say they were fired for poor performance. Either way is going to make it pretty hard to get hired, and so if Cloudflare ever needs to hire again in the future, there's a decent chance these people will still be seeking employment.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I worked at Teledyne and got laid off. The official policy was that they wouldn't give anyone a reference good or bad just confirm that the person worked there. Shit people making shit products. They threatened to not give me any severance unless I agreed to never badmouth the Teledyne corporation on the internet. I took the money.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

The professional workaround is 'are they eligible for rehire'. If you're laid off it's a yes, if not it's a no.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"I took the money."

Uh oh, now you're going to have to give it back for spilling the tea!

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I will get right on that. Maybe I will show up to my ex-manager's manager house and discuss the matter with him. You know on a rainy night near midnight. Is that the proper way to do this?