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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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[–] novamdomum@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Alright, let's play this game. Firstly a week is nothing so let's make it 3 months and let's begin by being clear about what "no impact" means. It seems to me twofold. On the one hand there's the impact on Cloudflare's share price and then more directly the impact on Brittany Pietsch. If she gets no more job offers than she would have if she'd kept quiet then I guess that would be "no impact" number one. Cloudflare's share price has risen since November last year from 54.95USD to its current price of 79.37USD. If there is no great change in three months then that would be "no impact" number two. Let's see what happens ;)

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What happens to Brittany Pietsch at this point is on Brittany Pietsch. It's up to her to show how she can be a valuable employee.

This will have absolutely no effect on the share price. To think that laying off 40 people out of a huge organization, even if one went "viral" for a few days, will have any effect is wishful thinking. Speculating on the possible effects is only an exercise for the people that want to feel outrage over something. People in this thread are talking about having PTSD from episodes like this. It's just a whole lot of complaining that will go nowhere, just like it has for decades. Cloudflare customers will not care about this, and that's all that really matters. And unlike Reddit, Cloudflare hasn't pissed off their products and drove them away to other platforms. The company will be fine...

[–] novamdomum@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok, let's see.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So it's been a week. Cloudflare isn't in the news anymore. No one on this site is talking about the incident anymore. Brittany Pietsch has done nothing but complain and "hit back" at the comments 4 days ago. And the stock price has gone up.

I don't expect you to acknowledge any of this, but knowing that I was completely 100% right is reward enough.

[–] novamdomum@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah... seems like you didn't read the conditions of the test I proposed. See you in 3 months ;)

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I saw it just fine. Nothing will change in the next 3 months. I look forward to being completely 100% right yet again.

[–] novamdomum@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Looks like something changed so let's review. The conditions were that this would have no impact on Cloudflare or Brittany. Apart from Cloudflare looking like dicks in the most public and embarrassing way imaginable, Brittany's landed a nice new job most likely thanks to all the visibility she generated. I would imagine she was offered a ton of jobs the minute she went viral and is only now officially able to announce the one she picked. Well done her. You mentioned being used to being 100% right so you must know the feeling well. I have to say, I see why you like it so much cos I'm certainly enjoying this ;)

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yet the stock price is still going up. And still no one is talking about it except you. No one cares. Even I forgot about this.

Seriously, just let it go. You were wrong. That's not a bad thing unless you make a big deal about it, like you are right now.

[–] novamdomum@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

I mean, you asked me to come back to you if something happens that demonstrates "impact" and I did. If you don't care about this why don't you take the high road right now and just not reply...

[–] novamdomum@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Ok, let's see.