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)
love how its hey we will fire you today as a surprise after you’ve been told something completely different but we promise to tell you why later. I really this was just taken legally as an illegal termination. Because if it’s for performance that means you have data, if you have data you should be able to give me graphs and charts, stick figure animations, poorly acted corporate videos.
Fr. If my performance was bad the entire time, why wasn’t I told until now? If I am doing a crappy job but told I’m doing great, why would I ever do better? Either it’s bullshit that my performance is poor, or they’ve set me up for failure from the beginning. Either of which makes them a piece of shit.
I expect and demand a puppet show demonstrating my poor performance
“Snape… Snape… Severance Snape…”
Okay, you got me thats a good one
Internet peaking early today. This is great
“Dumbledore!”
Interpretive dance or GTFO
And it has to be done using the Ride Of The Valkyries as music.
HR don’t have that data, that’s not their job. HR are there to handle the firing, which is notifying her of her termination and going through the exit strategy.
Why does no one in here understand what HR do and don’t do?
Uh HR has access to exactly that data for me as part of review cycles and what the boss puts in. Any thing that is used as a metric to compensate me HR would be able to look up for me almost instantly in any company I have ever worked for, I have never asked HR to provide me the data or where my performance was lacking and not have them have an immediate answer. Why, because when terminating a person that info is exactly their job to have to not get the company sued into next year. US wise just because you mysteriously wave your hands and say performance as the reason, even in an at will state, doesn’t mean you are off the hook for knowing the exact details at the time of termination.
Oh you work for cloudflare do you?