Cloudflare defends firing of staffer for unexplained reasons
Cloudflare defends firing of staffer for unexplained reasons
It's certainly not a layoff, net-taming biz insists
He went the "she deserved to be fired" route. She updates what's happening to her as well.
Hopefully this leads a push to more unionization in the white-collar workplace. In right to work states, that's your only recourse.
White collar workers will be in denial that they need unions until the situation is an absolute disaster as long as the decline is slow enough.
Shame works sometimes too. Not in this case, but sometimes.
Shame doesn't work when you're the biggest and practically the only name in the business... you are correct though.
"When we’re doing performance management right, we can often tell within 3 months or less of a sales hire, even during the holidays, whether they’re going to be successful or not."
"Yes, I see there's a question?"
"Yes. In that situation when you're doing performance management right, wouldn't the 'sales hire''s direct manager be aware of them being let go? I mean, also aware of what their performance is and the issue with it, but certainly at a bare minimum be aware they're getting fired and have some involvement in the firing?"
(slight pause)
"No questions please."
"Sadly, we don’t hire perfectly..."
I mean, it doesn't matter. He's employing vranyo, simply saying something which he knows will not be believed, to people who understand that he himself does not believe it. He simply performs it, then returns to his work unaffected. But remember this when you are putting any form of sincere effort forth on behalf of these companies.
Edit: Actually, I should say: I have no idea what this woman's actual performance is. For all I know she's a disaster to work with and there's a perfectly good reason she was fired. But it's clear that everyone else in the situation is doing things badly, whereas with her it's at least an open question.
I think this part backs up her side of the story.
“The last few days have been a roller coaster and I have been sent more messages and DMs this week than I have probably ever in my life,” she added. “The most incredible outpouring of support has honestly restored my faith in the corporate world.”
But she added that the most common message she’s received is that she is not alone.
“Many people have experienced something shockingly similar,” she wrote. “Cold, unexplainable firing by people they’ve never met - even after years of loyalty for some … Heartbreaking stories of people’s lives suddenly changing with no explanation and just told to ‘deal with it”.”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The TikTok video was posted last Friday by former Cloudflare staffer Brittany Pietsch, who started as a mid-market account executive in late August 2023.
“I disagree I have not met performance expectations just because I have not closed anything official,” Pietsch argued, and asked for a specific reason for her dismissal.
Dom described the dismissal as a “collective calibration for Cloudflare.” Pietsch said she was aware of peers who had also been let go, suggested she may be the victim of a rightsizing process after excess hiring, and pressed for a specific reason she was fired.
Pietsch asked why Dom and Rosie – who she had never met – were making the call to fire her, and if they were aware of her manager’s feedback.
She added that her manager was unaware she was being fired and “called me afterward and told me he was sick to his stomach and couldn’t believe this was happening.”
We as employees are expected to give two weeks’ notice and yet we don’t deserve even a sliver of respect when the roles are reversed?” ®
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