Recorded CloudFlare Firing And CEO Response
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HR: "You don't meet our expectations"
Also HR: "Sorry we don't meet your expectations"
That was such a cold line by the HR. Damn
Still dont like HR, but respect.
I fucking hate HR
@@dawidvanstraaten crappy HR must be universal. i've never had half-decent HR in any of my jobs
I would have started calculating that meeting time and glassdoor estimates for the salaries of all the roles represented on the call and told them to bring that to "Revenue Leadership" as a detected inefficiency. Perhaps there are other departments that could use "Collective Recalibration"
100%
If a company lays off a team, but doesn't want to call it a layoff, that should be illegal. Especially for a publicly traded company.
There is still grey area around. What if the company get rid of unit X team consisting of 20people (mass layoff). Then supporting horizontal teams (test engineers, devops, etc) may need to downsize their head count as well but by 1-2 headcount only - mass layoff or shrinkage of “low performance”
@@web
I believe that would still count.
not the definition of layoff vs fired.
Whats even more scumbag of companies to do is layoff a team(s) and rehire somewhere else (cheaper labour) for that team immediately... :)
So remember those times when software engineers were like, nah we don’t need a union
I was "let go" about six months ago. When I was informed, it was my boss and an HR person on the conference call.
I was fittin to do a Brittany, but before I could open my mouth, my boss spoke up and said "I don't see how you can say this is performance based when all his annual reviews for the eleven years he has been with the company state he has exceeded expectations. If you like, I can forward copies of those to you."
Long story short, I got my severance package. Best boss ever.
W boss
HR at my company here in the UK also tried to dismiss one of my peers at an old employer of mine, except they filed the wrong discipline charge. They wouldn't back down and tried all sorts of gymnastics ("Oh, well it's POTENTIAL xyz then") and ended up losing, because the senior director running the hearing also noticed it was bunk and refused to support the case. The evidence brought by HR also totally undermined their own position and actually didn't support what they were accusing him of.
The senior director was not amused, also because the cost of the HR 'investigation' outweighed the cost of what my peer had allegedly done.
Instead of being 'convicted' on that charge and being fired, my peer was duly 'convicted' on a lesser one (i.e. what he should have been charged with in the first place) and got a written warning. Had he been fired on that basis an employment tribunal would have been a stroll in the park and he'd have won a big payout.
That company also doesn't provide any support for its serving staff at tribunals. The manager responsible for firing him would have been in the dock by themselves and prosecuted as a private individual. That is a brutal situation to be in and would likely result in selling your home.
And W employee if the boss said such things
You would get your severance package anyway, they aren't going to fire you if you are a good employee just fyi. When people get laid off its a ladder, and you were at the bottom.
@@Chris_t0 You're a delusional moron.
"You're about to get laid" :)
"...off" :(
the latter would go down better with the former
If my boss said that me. I would throw my computer out the window and change my name.
:(
Story of my life
I made similar bad jokes, when i was young, like: getting laid for work and getting late for work.
HR is always there to protect the company, never you. Always be wary of anyone from HR being in a meeting.
There's a reason it's called Human Resource, they just see you as a resouce.
For any newbs reading these comments, never fucking forget this. I don't care how cool or real or kind HR personnel may be, they are there to protect the company - to help the company deal with its humans.
Watch what you say around HR or to HR in all situations. This is as reliable as a law of physics.
100% !!!
And people think it’s the other way around.
Absolutely!!!
It's just the sick understanding of the US work culture. HR has to do BOTH. Caring and Protecting the people and the company. Those are not opposites. But it's nothing that is part of the US work culture :) Yet?
What corporations do, and this is true, is they have a list of “expectations” that are basically physically impossible for anyone to achieve, and they can use this to “legally” lay anyone off whenever they need to cut corners
I have to assume any attorney that fights unjust firings could invalidate the hell out of this with 1 simple sentence. "Show me the metrics of even a single employee that meets these expectations."
I was part of a mass lay off one time after having only joined the company a few months earlier, but I contacted higher management fought for my job and was kept on. However, in the end the company went bankrupt about 6 months later.
Definition of "it wasn't meant to be".
Fate has a greater plan for you.
at this point, get laid off sound better
I've been fired once, took one for the team. When client found out, they offered me a way better job working directly for them. It is not always the worst thing that can happen.
I wasn't fired but quit a job with a... whopping... 2 hours notice. I was just done. They were pure scum. I had 4 offers from clients by the end of the next day. Shit was dope and I kicked myself in the ass for not leaving sooner.
This woman will, no doubt, bounce back. Some company will pick her up as a "we're not as terrible as the other guy's" which, they most likely are, buuuuuut money _is_ money.
@Mittke88 "not always" is the key part. Once a close family member died and I just continued, "it's not always the worst thing that can happen". Even if that's true for me, I'm not going to force you into this.
Same got laid off by a big corporation, I really enjoyed my job, thought I would never find anything with the same perks and found something better about 2 weeks later. I don't believe in God but the universe just dropped me a killer deal when I needed it.
uno reverse: your manager and HR join a meeting, you immediately start talking and inform your manager they are being laid off due to performance reasons, you bring receipts, HR is speechless flabbergasted, you explain you know it's strange to have an IC let go of their manager, however you'll be taking over the position. When HR tries to clarify wrap up the call asap, informing them they will get more details in an email soon.
Only Mike O'Hearn can do this while listening to "What is Love"...
That would be interesting.
Hilarious lmao
😂
Then get chatgpt to write a legal email to threaten hr if they don’t comply booom uno
I've been on both sides. Fired by the algo/ai is true in most cases. I've seen great developers get fired because they were "underperforming": They delivered fewer points during sprints but worked on critical issues and bugs that affected clients ( many times, the effort was estimated wrongly ), while the highest performers were working on smaller, low-priority stuff and pilling numbers. I also happened to be fired after delivering piles of features and being praised by my manager at every single chance, just to find out I was fired the next week, without a word from anyone, probably for cost-savings, I'll never know.
If you judge everything only by numbers, eventually everyone will give up on putting in effort and will start to work on the next shiny thing.
Most places are not Netflix-ish, I dare to say that most software companies are true slaughterhouses, managed by those who believe 9 women can deliver a child in 1 month.
Numbers without context are worth nothing.
I agree man the numbers thing isn't always a good way to judge, it's like like a support who only heals the tank gets big numbers but doesn't help anyone else
Honestly, you probably have a good case for wrongful termination if you were "fired" vs "laid off" (the distinction matters for things like unemployment compensation and general perception when looking for the next job).
i wish we remove numbers from humans. exams are for a reason the killers of creativity.
anyways, hopefully in a startup. no management.
directly interaction with the ceo everyday. self management and most importantly no numbers to run for...
i know its double edge sword. but relations are more important than number. there are better ways to judge.
other good ways.
once people start to run beind number, see numbers as target rather than motivation to do stuff. passion. it will be worse. same situation. or maybe worse.
self management. self motivation. leadership.
thats whats needed rather than some management guy looking at numbers.
who can not do anything, becomes manager.
imho, f8ck management...
All business are slaughterhouses but unless cutting whole departments/products, it's a rarity for a really good engineer to be fired based on some algorithm-more often than not, if a 'star' engineer is getting fired without a directly attributable reason, it's because their manager placed them on the bottom of the list, usually for personal reasons.
Ah, it's the typical "more lines of code = good" mentality from HR or hireups who don't understand that the best programmers either write very little but efficient code or are in the negatives in terms of code lines because they fix and optimise the rest of the code published by others.
HA! I was literally thinking "We should really just replace HR with AI" and 3 seconds later that's what others in the chat said too! 😂 It's so true though. And to HR... I hear you, I really do. I understand your concerns... 🤣
I did sales for 20 years before writing my first line of code. It's not even close, selling and having a constant quota is so much harder and more stressful than programming.
Now try being a freelance coder. ;) You will need to sell and code.
Wait till you cause your first Sev 1
@@Dead_Goat This is a lot easier than you think. Useful software sells itself, and then the burden becomes managing the company entirely, WHILE still managing the software, and then all of the other aspects that become overwhelming. Ask me how I know O_o
As a salesperson who is studying software dev, this is comforting to hear
I was fired (with 1800 others) by a big tech company two weeks ago...
By mail.
Write everything on Glassdoor, nobody wants to work for assholes like them.
I sure check everything before i even apply, small companies are great, assholes will never be good enough.
That's rough. I had a crappy director call me while I was on vacation (which i rarely took) and left a voicemail to tell me I got walking papers.
what happens if you just dont open it? Are you still employed?
@@pluto8404100% YES😂
Did they go broken wtf
Victim: "OHH MMY GOOODDD . . . HELP . . . I"M GETTING STABBED . . ."
HR: "We hear ya..."
Am I hearing fruit baskets?
Pizza party. 1 Pizza for the whole team.
Right. Brittany needs to go work at walmart, what a cry baby
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@@ashvio Strong GLaDOS vibes, especially from Portal 1. She'd say the most crazy things (e.g. asking if you're interested in donating your vital organs to a self-esteem fund) in the most corporate and soft language
I suspect it probably is layoffs but they're attempting to get out of paying any severance package, hence attributing it to "expectations" they claim that she wasn't able to meet.
Yup.
Financial stress is the biggest factor of depression.
Not in HR speak this translates to "You're fired. If you want to know why, it's because your performance is bad. If you want to know why it's bad, fuck you. GL trying to sue." It's just a shitty corporate move: hire 2000 people with a 3 month probation, figure out you only need 1000, get rid of the 1500 and convince the leftover 500 to do the work of 2 people. In the meantime give some BS reason when firing because it looks better for the company.
Yes, business is largely built on exploitation. If you're not overworking your employees you're not running a good business.
More like, "We want to get rid of you, but we don't want to pay you any severance. That's why we are going to lie that your performance sucks"
in Germany when you are still in probation, neither you or the company need a reason to fire you
I've been on both sides of the probationary fence and frankly we just need to do away with it. Jobs should be offered on a contract-to-permanent basis. The understanding should be that the employee is free to continue looking elsewhere and interview for the first three months, completely openly, until the employer makes up its mind. Over-hiring because a % of your new hires will turn out to be shit is a valid concern, but you can't pass ALL of the risk and responsibility downstream, it's completely unbalanced.
@@kuhluhOG which is actually a good thing, especially as there are limits to the probation duration
HR and Corporate speak is a blight on humanity.
I think it's baked into the language. When you work, you're not a person, you're a resource. And when you buy things to live, you're not a person, you're a consumer. I understand we need words for these things, but the words that were chosen come from a very specific kind of inhuman corporate culture.
People irl have to be careful with what they say and don’t say. Legal stuff
@@xXBRgamesXx Oh do they. I had no idea
@@ryanleemartin7758 Based on your comment, you had no idea now fuck off
its a extension of modern psychology
Layoffs impact the stock price, but not always negatively. In fact, most times they impact the stock price positively because it indicates the company is taking proper measures to keep the bottom line growing. Remember, the company is not there to may you, the employee happy. They're there to make the shareholders happy. Plan accordingly
It's currently happening all over the industry. Companies overhired, shareholders demand profits, middle management starts working together and fire people under these false circumstances.
The result is that no people will be left behind to do the actual work, and in a year or two we'll have a lot of companies failing and "nobody knows how this happened".
I believe if they'd actually respond to her question they'd expose themselves to some nasty lawsuits.
yep, it's all about not getting sued + pr
Which is exactly the problem. Companies should be able to lay people off willy nilly (as long as it’s not discrimination) and not be afraid to say why. “We overhired” in this case.
@@sofianikiforova7790 or maybe don't overhire. Here in italy you have a 60 days period to evaluate you new hires and then you can fire them only if they break the contract, which is usually if they do illegal stuff or don't show up, or if you close down. That of course makes companies less productive but people much happier so in the end its probably good
@sofianikiforova7790 I take this a step further. Discrimination should be allowed, atleast where private parties are concerned. Obviously, society frowns upon it, but the reverse of the situation is forcing an employer to keep someone hired that they don't want to. Also, Discrimination laws do not in anyway prevent Discrimination, all any employer needs to do is just fire the person, they don't even need to provide a reason, atleast not in an actual free society rather than this nightmare dystopia we live under currently. If they do provide a reason they simply need to say something other than they don't like the person's religion or skin color.
Now, when it comes to GOVERNMENT and companies that recieve beneficial status from the government, I absolutely am against Discrimination, but private individuals absolutely have every right to decide who they want to interact with, even if other people consider their reasoning to be rude.
@@Someonedoingnothing put a date on the contract and don't renew it if you cannot hire. Making up bullshit to break a contract in a probably illegal way is not acceptable. I know that a free market and blablabla but workers go on strike for better treatment and they get it. In Europe it's crazy how they got. And they're not less productive even if they have 1.5 months of mandatory vacation, 7h a day and so on
What’s unfair, is not to call a massive layoff a massive layoff and justifying it by bad performance which was not true.
Supposedly it was average quarter according to CEO though. And as said it was sales, where it's easy to identify - are you costing us more than you are bringing value? And CEO was also hinting that she wasn't very receptive to negative feedback so I do wonder if feedback from the manager was truly that positive.
She in fact hadn't made any sales so far, and if there were other hints that she wasn't going to be able to make sales in the future, then what is the justification for letting her stay there?
As I don't know the average numbers, I wouldn't know to speculate further.
@@someverycool4552 If they had specific grievances they could have articulated that when she directly asked. CEO suggested a lot of things that meant nothing because all he was doing was muddying the waters by proposing unsubstantiated hypotheticals to manufacture uncertainty.
@@someverycool4552 You know more that the HR person in this call lol
@@someverycool4552 Just so you’re aware… a software sales cycle can take anywhere from 3 months (very quick) to 2+ years depending on the size.
If she was selling carpets, I would understand her getting fired that quick. SaaS is a different beast
@@zotaninoron3548Zero sales in that time frame is a grievance. I don't believe for a second that they didn't bring that to her attention. She tried to toss some world salad in there to excuse it but the bottom line is that there is one metric in sales. That matric is sales.
This is why it's always good to have an up to date resume on hand this way if your company does shit you don't like you can be the one to say "I'm sorry you are in this situation" to your boss as you walk out giving no notice.
I agree with your take on language, I think semantics is a very important part of language. I feel like we're starting to do this a lot where we just group issues under one umbrella and the term becomes a really abstract concept.
I had a manager who told me the EXACT thing. “Keep doing what you’re doing, you’re killing it!” Only to have a sit down with her and my head of HR telling me “you’re not cut out for the industry.” without any constructive criticism as to why. This is the worst way to ever let someone go because, not only are you lying straight to your employees faces when you’re talking about how well they’re supposedly doing but you also aren’t giving any feedback as to what led to their termination, making it worse because they don’t even know what they have to work on to avoid a situation like this in their next job. We wish you the best of luck on your next job, We just won’t tell you what got you fired from your current one!
Same, 3+ times now.
@@CTimmerman americans love to do that, it's an american culture the "sarcasm" they love to do it. so if an american is giving you that kinds of feedback you better worry.
Because you're not fired-fired, but a layoff masked as a fireing.
If you're actually fired I imagine they would've no issue telling you the reason.
The lie wasn’t the times he was saying that you were doing great. The lie was what he said when they laid you off.
Just don't kill things :)
"Unfair dismissal" has legal meaning in many places. Simply, if the reason given for dismissal was not the real one, then that is unfair. "Collective calibration" contradicts "performance" reasons - there's pretty strong evidence that they're hiding a layoff.
Umm no.
Collective calibration captures whether individual performance is positively or negatively associated among members of a group. Clearly her performance was crappy, and she was net negative for the team.
The great thing about this is that you can hear that HR knows they're bullshitting at a certain point. You can almost hear the pages on the script shuffling.
Layoffs have legal implications and HR has been informed for this reason it is not to be called a layoff to prevent the triggering of those requirements.
This is why i only want a business without employees. She is so entitled, and does not understand that her wages comes from sales. That means you need to earn more in sales, than your wages, or you are a LOSS for the company and you should get fired immediately, before you damage the company further.. Lets say she got 10k pr month, and she has been there 4 months, and has done ZERO sales. That means all she provided for that company, was a 40k loss. That's it. She is delusional, and she can't sell. That's the problem.
"There's nothing we can say to change how you feel"
She's not asking you to change how she feels! She's asking extremely basic questions that you cannot answer.
Exactly, I would cut that "feelings" bs directly, I don't care about feelings, give me facts, now!
"ive had NO SALES, but GREAT meetings" xDD
HRs are paid by the amount of words they produce, not surprised
@@Nodsaibot well, how much you can do in 4 months? I guess it depends on your target, but some bigger fishes needs some more teasing than just 4 months.
Woman with the feel feel feel
100% in agreement with this part from the primeagen
Companies should just say:
"We are not humane, We make all decisions based on profit, If we consider you don't perform we will surely terminate the relationship"
Just say that!.
I would still work for you because I care about the $ it's a commercial relationship not a non profit.
I work for the money, you pay me I work. That's it. No bullshit.
Happy to hop on the programming train:
Also you're right. HR is never - ever for the people. Only for the company and would do anything to weasel out of explaining the reason for termination.
First time ever listening to this guy and he had me laughing every so often on how HR handled things and when Brittany pushed back lol. Good commentary.
I've worked corporate for a while. It is what it is. You'll get laid off, they'll tell you some bullshit, and you just move on and call it a day. If you really want to, write them a bad review, drink some whiskey, smoke some pot, and move on with life. It's alright. But what's important is that you don't allow it to impact how you see yourself as a person. You're not any less valuable as a person just because you got let go.
Why? How to argue that you are not less valuable as a person, if someone has directly told you in the face that you are "underperforming"? It's a compelling argument after all, and I don't know how to get out of this ;/
@@mzg147 You are being told you are "underperforming" by somebody who doesn't know you and is just looking at an excel spreadsheet with your name in the red on it based on x arbirtrary number.
For sales people it's amount of sales done (which is what was happening to the person in the video, she might have not closed sales or deals but ongoing ones are just as important tbf), programmers have lines of code or amount of files/changes committed, etc, etc...
Don't overthink it, just treat it as a sick day and start on finding a new job and or applying for unemployment compensation in the meantime and ASKING them for ANY and ALL documents you have the right to ask them for like relieving letters, last pay, letter of recommendation, severance, compensation for unused vacation, sick time, benefits, continuation of health insurance coverage during the meantime, 401k, back up any important files from work computer while you can, etc.
Basically if they ever fire you, make sure HR has a day of headache with you about all the documents you deserve the right to get and compensation, press them until they break and make sure you get everything out of them so you can recover from this and continue onwards.
gettting laid off comes with benefits, She was getting laid off and the company was not being honest about it to avoid paying out those benefits.
Nah I like what she did in this video. Try to get them to lie about the reasons for their decision so you can record it and sue them for wrongful termination. Remember... you can fire people for no reason, but if you lie about the reason its unlawful.
@@explodatedfaces Only in a state that is right to work can you fire for no reason. If this is California, they do not have "right to work"
I work for a VERY large software company and managers basically don't exist anymore. Engineers are being burdened with writing code and managing people and both suffer.
crazy.
Literally the exact situation I find myself in.
I'm nominally BOTH the Software Development manager, and the Software Eng lead for our largest and most crucial piece of design/engineering software .
The number of times I've pulled my hair out trying to explain to upper management that I can't 100% 2 jobs that DEMAND 100% of your focus. I spin my wheels, barely hitting half time on either facet, and the cycle repeats. Managers absolutely do not exist. I say this as the "Manager" of my team who is expected to also full time a massive piece of highly specialized engineering software as the lead developer.
I work in tech as well-- the project mgmt at my last company was nonexistent.
I work as a sales exec in fortune 500 IT corporation, selling mostly services, software for data centres etc. I have no idea what has happened in the last couple years, but organisational structure of my company has become so centralised that Im in shock how bad the disconnect between people on the market and people making staffing or product decisions has become. It happened to us last year that managers have just been told by worldwide company leadership, you need to let go this amount of people from your team, you have 2 weeks to decide who you fire and why, if not Hr is going to decide for you.
inb4 decades of bashing on middle management being unnecessary by every engineer I've met
God this was one of the most uncomfortable things to witness. I feel AWFUL for everyone in that meeting. The company didn't empower the person doing the firing enough to be able to give reasonable answers. The closest thing to an individual kudos I can offer is the HR lady stepping up to say explicitly "we cannot give you a satisfactory answer". This was 3 people thrust into a SHITTY situation by a shitty company
This sounds like a sales job. If it is it is FAR more brutal then any other department. It's basically broken down like this 1. If you miss your targets for a month/quarter whatever the sales cycle is, they examine it. 2. If you miss for two or more quarters consecutive they fire you.
Working hard only matters when you are working for yourself... ( your business ) otherwise expect to be canned any day from today for no reason, especially in tech. Our tenure is as predictable as tomorrow's tech!
work hard to improve yourself, but do your job only to the standard your contract requires
@@defeqel6537 Actually this proves the point that these businesses are mismanaged. The quality of products are not getting any better and no tech that makes our life better gets release. It's just a money grab. I just hope that these shit companies fire everyone and real competition should come. I am sure there plenty of competent people to take these companies out of the market.
She admitted that she didn't close any contracts... fired herself
100%
It’s not no reason though, it’s because the business environment can’t support the staff they hired when they thought the future would be brighter.
“Collective calibration” means “we hired too many people and now need to balance things out”.
ie. A layoff
Sounds illegal.. but it looks like U.S.A so I will not waste my breath
THEY TALK TO YOU LIKE A ROBOT
@@madhuguru3130 And unethical, but again, that’s us in the good ol’ USA.
Incorrect. Collective calibration means they assess each individuals performance and how the team performs with that person. People who are a net negative are fired.
@3:39 Look at the date, she mentioned in the interview that it was happening just after december. The increase in stock price you're seeing is *because* of the layoffs, when they did them they were at rock bottom, november-december ish.
She didn't close any deals, what you want them to do? Talking and being friendly with customers doesn't cut it. She claims to work hard, but people work hard on treadmills and get no where.
I have a friend who works as a technical product manager. He told me that he has had to fire some devs for performance issues, and he said that he had to first put them on a performance plan for a few months before being able to fire them, but the decision had already been made, so the result of the performance plan didn't matter -- it was just some corporate bullshit that had to be done to cover the company's ass.
yes, decision is fixed.
Always. Kpis mean literally nothing. Ime, you need to find away to shift their focus to someone else if you want to keep your job before you get put on a plan. If you do get a plan then that's your sign to start applying elsewhere.
Ah wait, isn't this the standard Amazon PIP (Performance Improvememt Plan) policy thing?
Sounds like a terrible company to work for. I would never agree to a performance plan or review.
If the Job is to do X and I get X done, that's all that matters.
@@spankyjeffro5320 the performance plan thing only applies to those who do not do what is required of them. The job requires X and they don't get X done, so they get fired with extra steps.
Been there before. Random boss boss came up to me, basically said "Your numbers suck".
Thing is, my numbers weren't even recorded because I was working on other people's accounts all the time - not by choice.
So despite having my manager happy about my work, boss boss ended up with bullshit numbers about me and he tried to bully me into leaving the company.
So I just proved him wrong, and then quit on the spot, fuck that. Was a garbage job anyway.
Edit : He obviously didn't want me to go anymore by that point.
so he got what he wanted XD "proved him wrong", he couldn't give two shits about that, as long as you quit on your own.
@@yiin he got what he wanted not what he needed... worst thing you can do some people is give them what they asked for not what they actually wanted...
What he wanted was better workers what he actually got was fewer good workers... good job 👍
@@yiin shhh
@@Fuxy22 the bullshit numbers implied from the start that performance was never an issue, just an excuse to fire for some other reason. We don't know what other reason bullshit or not his company might have had, but that doesn't deny the fact, that quitting your job in that situation only helped the boss. If you want to stick it to them, there are better ways to do that than to succumb to their demands.
Isn't that like constructive dismissal?
I've seen this firing posted on two other sites and am so glad Brittany recorded and posted this. Good for her.
Working at a big company has its perks but don’t underestimate smaller companies where you could directly speak to the CEO
and get fired directly instead.
This. I love being able to call my CEO directly and be like "hey, machine X is broken again, can you come down and fix it?" or "Hey I'm taking next friday off, that cool w/u?"
It's something else to have an employer you can go directly to, and who spends all of his time working on the floor with everybody else, unless he's in the office doing necessary paperwork
@@billythao8669 This, but unironically
Like 1970s Britain where apparently all you needed was to roll in off the street, ask to see the "manager" or "owner", greet him with a firm handshake and he'll hire you to start tomorrow. Just go back to your old job and resign.
"the data that was callibrated" is so funny
Software manager here. This just means they stack ranked sales and chopped the bottom 10%.
Guess where you are with no sales.
Manager: “you’re meeting our expectations. Keep doing what your doing!”
Hr: “you’re not meeting our expectations and you’re fired.”
the manager didn't say she was meeting expectations. She mentioned she was on a ramp but had zero sales. She knew what her metrics were and how short she was on it. She knew she had zero sales. The manager praised some of her work. This typically happens just before and just after a critique. "You're doing x great. We really need you to focus on y. Btw, love how you handled Z". It is supposed to soften the blow of critique. She knew though because she tried to avoid discussing it all costs. The only metric in sales is sales. period. You pick that up real quick on a sales team. Daily huddles, meetings, one on ones. There's no way she didn't pick up "Sales are our focus". She didn't close. She didn't come close to closing and she mentioned nothing that signaled to me she was working on closing. Sales sucks. She's not cut out for it. That's ok.
THEY FIRING YOU INSTEAD OF LAYING YOU OFF SO YOU DON'T COLLECT UNEMPLOYMENT
BUT YOU STILL CAN COLLECT IF YOU WERE UNJUSTLY FIRED
COMPANIES MAY DISPUTE UNEMPLOYMENT
@@gnitsaf She was only there for 3 months, with 2 holidays in the middle, and selling a product where the sales cycle can be 6+ months on a single deal, so explain why that means she wasn't cut out for it? Explain how exactly you are supposed to sell a product like Cloudflare to tech departments during Christmas?
@pandepic7078 she was there for 6 according to her LinkedIn. Also Google her job description. She left off this was an executive level 6 figure job and she accomplished none of her action points and lost 3 sales according to her video.
@@gnitsaf >She mentioned she was on a ramp
Most of the ramps I've seen from the tech side means that you work under someone else's account as a shadow, and run through the sales process on a select number of other people's accounts, while also learning the product, etc. This is the first time I've ever seen ramp included as a metric in performance evaluations.
Since she was an Account Executive, I'm assuming she did not bring in a large client list ahead of time, that is usually a move made when bringing someone in at a higher level, your experienced AEs in that industry that then serve in leadership roles as well.
As someone else said, unless their sales cycle is ~30 days (it isn't) the idea that she would have closed accounts over Christmas, where many customers are disconnected or out of office, is ridiculous.
Now one thing she mentioned is that she did have a deal not close. I'm gonna assume that was her first account either during or after the ramp process. I'm also gonna assume that this company isn't wholly incompetent, and turning over accounts to new AEs their first day with full responsibility and control. 1 sale falling through out of 1 is not a metric, it is a data point. If she had 3 and all 3 fell through with no obvious extenuating circumstance, then we could talk about her not making sales. But no sales job is 100% close, ever. Taking 1 data point and calling that enough to make a decision on is how a lot of very stupid decisions are made.
6:55 collective calibration sounds like the yearly review meeting I had with my manager recently, I was actually rated as "Exceeds expectations" but apparently so did loads of other people (I guess we all work too hard) so because of that our ratings were "normalized" and I ended up with "Meets expectations". Which has a direct impact on how much money I might receive (if any) as a bonus at the end of the financial year, nice.
It's interactions like this that make you really feel for people who work in HR
On another note, laying people off and calling it something else affects the person they're laying off. That could show up on background checks, especially if they call it for "performance reasons" and potentially affect future employment opportunities
It also impacts eligibility for unemployment benefits in most states.
There is no "background check" that shows a reason why you were fired from a job. Matter of fact, if a prospective employer you are interviewing with calls or emails your previous employer to verify employment it is actually ILLEGAL for the previous employer to say anything about why you separated from the company. All they can do is verify your start date and end date. As the other person mentions it can affect unemployment from the state. But getting fired for "performance" reasons isn't a valid reason to not pay you benefits. The only thing that will really affect your ability to collect unemployment is if you were fired for not following a company policy or breaking a written policy etc.
@@red5standingby419yeah I always people say that and it’s not true. You can only be denied unemployment if you committed gross misconduct for termination, like theft, etc. I always wonder if it’s just bots for big companies that want to keep people from filing.
@@arachnid4910 Hey genius, that's what I said means. Breaking a written company policy such as those in the employee handbook will be things like don't steal shit from the company or coworkers. Don't do this or do that. You sign these things when you are hired. And if for instance they have an email of you saying something that breaks a written policy, they can provide that email and their written policy that has your signature on it and you will not qualify for unemployment. Things that will NOT be in the company handbook that you sign will be things like "you will perform to these metrics" and therefore wouldn't disqualify you for unemployment benefits. Pretty straight forward.
@@red5standingby419 I wasn’t referring to you, I was agreeing with you.. read the room, pal.
The problem is that they can't acknowledge that they and their system sucks. Her manager hid problems and did appraisal of her job, so she thought she is going fine all the time. Now they told her you suck because of "calibrated data", and some "collaborative" bs. So if she now fired by some algorithm so might be a better decision would be to fire her manager and use the algorithm to manage people instead.
It's entirely possible her manager had no idea this was coming. They could have been totally honest with her in that they thought her performance was great, then the algorithm decided she was on the chopping block.
What? That makes zero sense, management has all of the power in a company why would they replace their own jobs... You clearly know nothing about the real world holy shit.
We give her too much credit. Have to consider it's an on camera performance.
@@trappedcat3615 might be, might not be. your optimising without a profiler ;)
@@JoRyGu I think this is exactly what happened according to her later edited video, manager had no clue, all of this was a sudden decision from the higher ups
It's definitely not fair to refuse to call a layoff a layoff. Not even unfair to the worker, but it's absolutely unfair to the investors. The reason why they wouldn't call it a layoff is that they need to report layoffs to investors and maybe they have a better severance package for layoffs. In my country, the law is that if you get laid off you get 60-70% of your salary for 6 months from the unemployment bureau, but if you get fired, you only get like 40% and it's for 3 months? Or something like that.
In Germany, when you start a new job, you usually have a 6-month trial period called "Probezeit."
During this time, either you or your employer can end your contract without giving a reason.
The trial period is like a test to see if you and the job are a good fit for each other.
Essentially, newcomers are vulnerable during their initial six months in era of unreasable layoff.
But I have not seen something like this, where just HR calls you.
Usually, there are three people on the call: the manager, HR, and the Betriebsrat representative.
And get Blacklisted. Not right.
The issue begins from the law, you can't fire an employee with the "We need to reduce costs" statement due to the law, so managers make up excuses to avoid the law and in the way hurt the employees.(Even though they perform great) The system is just stupid.
So like... She wasn't performing great. She gives a ton of metrics that aren't conversions. That's the issue. Contact on accounts that don't lead to conversions don't matter at all. She WAS under performing by her own admission. She just dressed it up.
@@chrisdaman4179 They didn't provide any data either
@@neociber24 they don't actually have to. It really is not that complicated. She knew she didn't meet metrics. She knew this was coming. That's why the camera was on before the call started.
Dismissals are distinct from layoffs in the eyes of the law. There's certain extra steps you need to go through to lay people off. Between that and the bad optics, there seems to be too much of an incentive to disguise layoffs in the form of mass dismissals due to flimsy performance metrics.
in “at will” states i don’t think they really have to give a reason, i live in one & my friend got fired for “not meeting company standards” & dude worked just as hard as everyone else lol management just really didn’t care for him & we were pretty overstaffed….. im just so happy afterwards 4 people quit & now we are understaffed again 😎
For anyone wondering why she didn’t make any sales in 4 months… She’s selling SaaS (software), not carpets.
A SaaS sales cycle can last for 2 years. It’s very unlikely that a new hire will close a deal during their first three months - especially when they are new to the product and just ramping
No only enterprise deals take that long, she was in Mid-market that's usually 30-90 days. She also worked at cloudflare which is a massive househould name with a lot of inbound and she couldn't close anything for the 6 months she worked there.
@@Nemixx Closing in the first 30-90 days is still an unrealistic expectation for a brand new hire on her ramp.
Is it possible? Yes. But not the norm by any means especially in this economy.
She had maybe 4 months when you take into account the holidays
@@fightsportspace7327 No it isn't lol, Especially if you work for a company like Cloudflare where 90% of your leads are inbounds. If you couldn't close even a SMB deal the entire 6 months you were you're ass
she still got fired tho 🤷♀️ ig the other new hires did better
But isn't a carpet cycle even longer? I mean, carpets tend to last far longer than 2 years. It seems like an odd thing to compare it to.
A Company keeps the top performers during layoff / cutbacks - Nothing unfair about it...
The whole recording was just a flowery rendition about how it wasn't her fault she didn't make any sales.
Maybe she didn't get the fairest circumstances. Maybe she did. Only the company knows for sure.
I've been in this exact situation. Manager claims the reason is "you took too long on project", when, in fact, I was blocked by him completing his part of the project. People just make up excuses when they need to do layoffs, it's a power trip for them to see you grovel.
Yep, I've been there.
A project put me in front of a firing squad because I hadn't done something. I hadn't done it because other people in the project also hadn't done stuff, which meant I was blocked. I'd asked them to do it, they didn't, somehow that's my fault.
That’s why the chat going on about working hard pissed me off. If you work hard in a company, your manager takes all the credit and you get nothing except more work. If something goes wrong, you take the fall. That’s how this works.
Getting fired from a new job when your savings is probably non-existant can be pretty traumatic especially in this economy. She could be on the streets in a manner of months or weeks depending on her situation.
I lived above a guy who assaulted a friend of mine (I say lived because the guy died). Debts, an apartment I leased for 12 months.
If I was fired 3 months later, I'd call that pretty f****** traumatic. I get Prime's point that being fired isn't traumatic, but it's lacking that nuanced context of "the act itself isn't very traumatic, but the situation you're in becoming a nightmare 'because' you were fired can be VERY traumatic."
If her performance is bad, why not.
@@Handlebrake2 Her performance must have been incredible if she got her whole team axed.
@@Zilharr Damn her bad performance has Area of Effect
@@Handlebrake2 Was it shrapnel that took out her manager?
I’m a programmer. Love it, but I could never do sales. Props to those for can do that job good.
That's why I stopped freelancing.
I went from sales to programming, a trained monkey could do it.
Being fired can definitely be traumatic if you’ve put your life and passion into the job for several decades and it is what you love with the people you like, only to get fired by some interim restructuring manager. But I cannot see how it can be “traumatic” when you’re not even half a year on the job.
I was just fired because I "was stuck on the same issue for three weeks and didn't ask for help". The issue was a massive rewrite that did indeed take 2 weeks. THEN an issue was found in code review, I got stuck fixing it Friday, asked for help Monday, was let go Tuesday for "getting stuck and not asking for help."
big companies suck at knowing what's going on. I'd probably not have been let go if I was extremely social and tooting my own horn. But I am an engineer because I didn't want to do sales, why some management requires engineers to sell themselves as much as their code, I'll never know.
Sounds like a communication issue. You didn't communicate to those tracking the issues how long it would take to fix the issue.
@@evancombs5159 If the issue is a massive rewrite then it's definitely the fault of people who were surprised at the end of 3 weeks instead of tracking it... you know doing their job?
@@evancombs5159 I did. Every day in standup.
Sorry to break it to you, but they've been wanting to fire you for a long time. They intentionally gave you an issue that they knew you'd need help on.
@@alienrenders and with proof you can sue them for it
my company fried like 25% of employees with an email and cutting off all of their accounts. NO meeting. People just woke up and couldnt access anything. I literally had a co worker call me and ask if slack was down while I was on a meeting where they were telling the ppl who didnt get fired about how they fired everyone.
Anywhere in the world where that is not illegal and is not eligible for harsh judicial judgments is a place where things are not right and the system needs to be reseted by the people.
Lol same thing happened to me in November 2022. They didn't want any disgruntled ex-employees to leak information and thus cut off all access before sending an email quite a bit later.
You have to close. If she had closed those 3 they wouldnt be letting her go.
The social media version of "staff adjusting" or "redundancy adjustments" is add purjung and algorithm adjustments.
Saying getting fired isnt traumatic is a downright awful take. Maybe for someone in Prime's position, he could feel confident in finding new employment quickly, but for a young professional, who may have just uprooted their life for this job, getting the rug pulled only 4 months in could leave you financially crippled. Add to that that we are seeing industry wide layoffs and a global down turn in the markets, finding a job will be getting ever harder, as is supporting yourself financially even while in one. Not having a stable job at this point might determine huge life decisions like whether she feels ready to marry, buy a house or have children, so having that taken away from you without any clear reason absolutely is traumatic.
It just seemed very diatasteful that Prime was insinuating this woman is privileged for calling getting fired traumatic, when he is one of the few people privileged enough that getting fired wouldnt be.
Yeah I thought his reaction here was pretty sus, too.
Not to mention in America, your health insurance is heavily tied to your job. The thought of getting sick or having a medical emergency is anxiety inducing and COBRA is ridiculously expensive.
I think it’s hard, but in my dictionary “trauma” has a much heavier connotation. It’s hard for me to believe that your whole life is going to be ruined by being fired, you gotta have some faith.
He has some takes that he thinks are "hard truths" but are awful takes.
yeah an embarrassing take. Getting fired and being unemployed in America is a brutal experience. The stress and chaos of it affects you for a long ass time, especially if you have people that rely on you. My great recession experience still fucks with me to this day.
People say how she acted was cringe. I don't think so. I think it's fair for her to try to get some answers. And I'm gen x.
It was wrong for her direct to not give her better feedback. But she makes it worse for everybody becuase, now if you can't fire people, then employers will raise their hiring standards and make it harder to get a job
@@Jabberwockybirdbad take imho. The companies need workers no matter what. They determine their hiring standards based on that.
It's cringe. HR doesn't make the decisions and they're not allowed to give details. She was just throwing a tantrum for internet likes.
@@HyperionStudiosDE Yeah
after all, she has a lot of free time from now on
@@Jabberwockybird Companies only hire workers they need. If this happens, it will go on only for as long as they can find replacements. If they find their new standards just don't match the workforce, they will lower them again. The company cannot operate without people.
last year we had a mass firing but it was a huge teams meeting instead of zoom because the whole department was being let go. so i get where she is coming from, but hr can only share with you what they are allowed to share as their interest is to the company.
She's in sales. Closers close. I don't think it was a layoff. As a sales manager I can tell within just a couple of weeks whether someone is going to cut it. Corporate sales has a constant hiring pipeline. I bet you dollars to donuts if she closed even a SINGLE sale. Even just one worth a couple of $1k per year, she wouldn't have been let go.
short - cloudflare just lost a huge bunch of good people who previously wanted to join them. For years. No good professional will even consider joining such a culture. Brittany ❤
It's crazy easy to say "it's not your fault, we just must lay off X people, the algo is random/based on years with us/whatever, here's half year salary as comp, we are ready to give any recommendations and hope we might continue our journey when and if the situation changes". But this HR is just a stupid robot.
She was hired as a sales person. She sold nothing in all the time she was there. Why would they say it isn't her fault? She sold nothing. There's one metric in sales. Sales. You are always closing or you're making excuses. She closed nothing. There was nothing she brought up to signal that she was trying to close, that she generated leads, that she contributed to the business whatsoever. Why would you recommend someone who did nothing of what they were hired to do? Why would you offer 6 months salary when they did nothing? She admitted it. She knew why. She danced around it and didn't want to touch that at all. But there it is. She had zero sales. Everything else, around that, doesn't matter, zero sales.
@@gnitsaf You've posted this to every single comment. We get it, you're the bestest little doggo, I put on the big man uniform and tell you to jump and you'll fucking soar then lick my hand while you whimper. Good boy, if only everyone were this enthusiastic about making other people rich.
@gnitsaf go ahead and bootlick harder borther
@@gnitsafdid you expect her to sell anything over Christmas? It’s pretty clear they were just hiding a layoff and making up bs. And guess what: cloudflare doesn’t need you to defend them. They are a very wealthy company who is doing very well for themselves. They’ll be just fine without you. Why don’t you try taking the side of the workers instead of the company for once
shut up Simp, no one is going to care about her little temper tantrum. They will still gladly work for this company.
Getting laid off and possiblility of ending up on SF streets is indeed traumatizing.
If she was hired in europe, she would have at least 1 month of pay to find other job. She would also get 2 days absence to attend interviews. Most often people go on paid leave to find another job and it's not seen bad by any employer. It's just the way everyone would like to be in, including ceo and owners.
Get out of SF while you still can. Find somewhere safe where there is a community who will help.
Prime is extremely America > Europe, so hopefully he doesn't see this lol
@@majestictrain That sounds like all the more reason for him to do see it.
@@trappedcat3615where ?
When I got laid off in the US I got like 2 months of pay. The differences between the US and Europe are not big, people just focus on the high profile bad companies and compare them to the good companies they worked for.
One thing I have learned about getting fired - it does not matter what you tell them,how good you are, or what you have done. Once the decision has been made its final.
I got put on a pip once after a year of other coworkers higher up and myself reporting that lower level employees were pissing of customers and transferring them to our department despite not being the correct department for the issue which caused our call times to increase while theirs looked super low.
Shortly after being put on the pip i got a new job and quit with 2 days notice. Looking back now, the only reason I believe even 2 days wasn't too many was because I liked my manager.
After leaving that job I swore to myself that I will NEVER work in a call center again.
BTW I got laid off yesterday for "not getting involved with our main projects enough" while they moved me to a different project regarding shutting down old systems.
It sucks when you get shit on based on either miscommunication or lack of communication. While it is technically on you to communicate what you are doing and problems you are having. At the end of the day, the entire role of manager is that. The role of the manager is to get status and communicate between their reports and the person they report.
I understand that shit managers would rather throw you or the people under them under the bus to save their ass. It is easier to forget what you have done for the sake of giving reason to letting you go. The better ones will do that communication.
This is why if you aren't having a one on one every week or two and quarterly evaluations then you are fucked.
The worst place I worked at, basically copied and pasted the last evaluation and the bosses boss came in and told me, "you need to promise to improve to not do these things." I had already been doing them. Over half of the items I "need to improve" I was already doing and if they were doing their job then they would have realized that. What I realized was that the company had no intention of doing their job or having a conversation. Not only would the next evaluation be just as bad, it would likely be worse.
@@JacobSantosDev Oh, they knew what I was doing. I just wasn't aware the project I'm working on isn't included in the metrics the higher up management sees.
@@cprn. Sigh. That is even worse. I feel for you. They did you a favor and hopefully you are working at a more competent company.
This happens when employee believe that they are joining "a family"
bingo....
I was laid off a year ago, no one even had an 1:1 meeting with HR, it was a cold and fleeting general meeting to announce the layoffs, minutes later all access was blocked. Lesson learned: never idolize any company you work for no matter how much it meant to you to join, we provide services and they pay for it, period, that's the whole relationship... 100%.
What a bs response from the CEO. She was on a three-month ramp-up, was apparently getting very positive feedback from her manager, seemed to have developed good relationships with potential clients, then the holiday season rolled around, then she's canned. You cannot say it's down to "performance" if you haven't even give an employee feedback to indicated a need for improvement. That's on you, not them.
I was a senior engineer at a large startup for a year. My supervisor was also an engineer, and every biweekly 1:1 was "you are doing awesome, keep it up". Fast forward and the teams are being changed around. I have the option to stay with my current supervisor's team BUT would require me to come into office, or I can go to another team that is remote. I choose remote since I had a newborn. 1 week after that change, I get the flu, and my new supervisor isnt an engineer so he doesnt even know my work quality. Some tickets are late that week because I was out 2 days with flu. I get my next review the end of the second week, and HR interviews my NEW supervisor for their opinion, and he complains that I was late on some tickets the 2 weeks I was in his team, and I get fired based off of his interview.
Same experience on a mid sized company, missed 1 day because I was sick and got fired by the algorithm. I finally figured out why people were showing up to work sick as fuck.. such a stupid way to lose a job
his review was honest at least. sucks about the cold and sucks he couldn't determine your work quality. but I don't blame the company on this one necessarily. just bad timing.
you had 1:1's twice a week? yow!
1. Yeah, she's young and still operating under the working hard == success mindset. There are some cringe moments as a direct result of that.
2. Otherwise, she's totally right and good on her for seeing it coming and calling them out.
3. Their inability to provide consistent and satisfactory responses indicates that a.) something shady is going on and possibly b.) that HR doesn't know what it is and are in a terrible position themselves.
If she thinks working hard should be the measure, then how can you trust what else she's saying. Working hard is just a length of the vector. The vector itself must be in the right direction as well, which is actually much more important.
If a sales person thinks that working hard is the true measure, then how can I trust her to make deals that are actually valuable for both sides? Maybe she thinks the harder she works for the customer the more likely the customer should accept the deal.
No it's about having numbers make sense so that a deal is favourable to both parties. It's simple math - Company B pays us $1,000,000 which will bring them $1,500,000 value and for us it costs $500,000 to produce, it's an easy and fair deal. Going to lock that in. Both companies get $500k value out of that.
It's also not about how young someone is. It's lower than high school level math to understand that companies exist to make money, if you are a sales person you need to identify in which way you can make money for both companies who you are striking a deal between and then use your charisma as formality to make the deal happen.
I didn't see any of that from her. Sure she's in a tough position, but is she going to react the same way when she's trying to strike deal between companies and the company she's selling their product to doesn't want it?
And what were the "great meetings" she was referring to? "I have had so many great meetings, we had so much fun" - but no deals.
None of this is personal.
You can't be a sales person and have attitude like she had there. You could choose any other role, but sales in particular is something where you have to be constantly thinking of how to make a deal and how to make it work.
Working hard does mean success, in the long run. It does not mean every step is successful. Some stuff is timing. Like here, if they needed to cut staff, and she hasn't closed any deals (even if she was great and no one could have closed any in those circumstances) then she is a reasonable choice, regardless of how "hard she worked".
@@thekwoka4707
No, it absolutely does not mean. You need the correct direction. If you have bad direction it means that working hard might mean failing harder, or generally being counter productive. I never say or show "Look how I hard I worked (except to my partner where the relationship dynamic is different than with a company)". I always speak of results. My action of X yielded in N returns. In actuality, the less time spent on an action that yielded best returns the more impressive it is.
If I spend 2 days to make $500,000, that is way better than tirelessly working for 365 days to make the $500,000.
Or even worse, you could be tirelessly work for 2 years and cost the company $500,000 and not bring in any value.
It's simple to show that, that you could be doing useless work and or even illegal work to put your company or your own life at risk. You could be working hard all the while doing that.
HR's response, while a mix of buzz words, is the direct result of businesses getting sued from sue happy people. So they mitigate that risk by providing the reason as they did. She knew why. zero sales in a quarter? She knew this was coming.
Working hard is for losers.
I'm lazy by nature and would rather find quicker and easier ways to do my tasks than sweating it at 5pm on a Friday.
the HR voice sounds like "Sally" the mission controller from the movie Oblivion. The movie was about a big coporation that took over the earth, and used humans to do the dirty work, therefore making them believe there is a better reward after the job has been done, only to be killed, replaced by another clone
Been fired twice, in person. Usually I’m aware its coming and walk in and go “Am I fired?” Those times it was “Yeah your fired” and I just grab whatever shit isn’t garbage leave the mess for them to clean-up and apply for unemployment the next day.
So was she fired or laid off? Because it matters a lot for things like unemployment benefits… being fired for cause can make you ineligible, while if a company does a layoff it comes with additional unemployment benefit costs for the company. Her fighting their performance claims could actually be really important if it’s the difference between her being able to collect unemployment benefits or not.
I just made same post. Ive been on both sides, otherwise id not know about ins cost.
This is not the way. Now, who would want to hire her after she secretly recorded other employees and posted it online?
I think THIS is the ultimate goal of Cloudflare. Get rid of overhired staff without paying severance.
Exactly. Screwing people over because they over hired.
It just comes off as trying to pretend the layoff is a fire to avoid paying out those benefits.
They shouldn't even be trying to give excuses, just be honest, directors just decided based on whatever numbers they got to fire her and nothing more. The stars didn't align, whatever, just be done with it, not like anything is going to change at the end of the day.
Does that really need to be spelled out. We already see her recording it. Imagine the backlash if the HR really spelled that out. "Stars didnt align, you are fired". Cloudflare shares would drop so hard even if the HR in call might get some pats for being realistic lol. She asked once - she didn't get a reply. Twice - still didnt get answer. Do you really have to rub it in their faces telling "You are firing me and you dont even know why". I dont think those HRs are having fun there. No need to prolong the call anymore than it needs to be. Just listen to the procedure, get on with life, start a new job search. Everyone feels the pain, but nobody can help in that situation besides ourselves.
@@ark_knight If the company isn't doing well the shareholders need to know. Why shouldn't the shares fall?
Corporate speak like this affects actual job functions too. There's goal misalignment sometimes because the organization's real objectives aren't shared with employees. Cutting the bullshit would be better for everyone.
@@ark_knightLol, they're not hiding how they're doing from shareholders. They're legally obligated to report on their financial situation quarterly.
@@ark_knight that's what they effectively said anyway just with more bs... I would have respected them more if they said it was a decision from above based on internal metrics they cannot disclose but promise to give a good reference no matter the reason.
Just be vague if you can't be honest but don't bs them by saying it's their fault when it's clearly not. That is just disrespectful and may lead them to believe you won't give a good reference for their work.
@@travissmith2127 not an ideal world. What can we do about it?
In my company layoffs were done on email. So they avoided the whole debacle. What a great organization
Poured nearly two years of my life into my last role. Built most all of their training decks for emerging technologies. Company ramped up travel from 25% to 75%. When I proposed a middle ground, Director put HR on the phone and terminated my role. Not even an attempt to work something out. Companies and their ‘Leaders’ don’t give a damn about you. Quite honestly I’m surprised people still haven’t figured this out.
Her: "you prepared a meeting to fire me without having a reason prepared. How are you qualified to do you job as HR without getting those details before hand?"
HR: "I'll get back to you offline after we stop paying you"
Yep. Happened twice in 26 years. I learned the second time. "Oh. I am fired/laid off/whatever buzzword. Ok. Now we are on my time. IDGAF why. I want to know what you are offering me on the way out. And to end this call. " I don't dismiss this lady's right to defend herself. Other than the video it is talking to a brick wall.
“We’ll get back to you”.
They don’t.
@@njspencer79 Play the same game as her, destroy them and then ask for a better package on my way out
@@TheShibangelist Nah. I value the long-term. That sort of thing esp. in the internet age has a way of coming back to bite you.
Ai-based firings would become increasingly rampant for some time.
I think it's for the best because many large companies have snagged talent that could very well be competing with them. The less we see these large corporations as nothing more than talent hoarders, the more we will resent their anticompetitive behaviors and force a reset.
It's time people begin to value themselves, over idolizing some mega corporation. Don't be a slave. Be human.
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I started at this new company that offered me a massive increase over my current position back last year. They let me go with zero explanation after a month of me giving it what I could and getting next to no help or training from my trainers. I made one call that night and decided I would get up and canvas in the morning. Next morning I get a call back and find out I'm hired and they want me to come in that day to discuss wages and hours. I am now making the same money as I would have at that job that let me go, but with waaaay less stress and way less foul treatment.
Some companies deserve to go under. Sadly, the ones that deserve it never do.
From my experienced as subordinate , only very few managers will ever tell you eye to eye anything negative. Most will praise you then write you off for reasons you never heard off. From my experience as manager, it's really hard to tell subordinate critique but it's best thing you can do for them.
I want to stress that out: It does NOT matter how hard you work or your intentions. ONLY results matter.
Those dont matter either. Relationships are all that matter. Look at kathleen kennedy. She has lost disney billions and driven multiple franchises into the ground. The willow tv show was such a disaster that disney removed it from streaming and took it as a tax write off. She is a complete disaster and yet remains untouched. We all have worked for stupid bosses. Its not about results.
All these comments are cultural in your area. Here in most western European countries the employees have so much rights that it's almost impossible to fire someone for no reason. This is why they try to bully you out here, because they legit can't fire you.
Having said that, here, the intentions and how hard you work do count. But you can easily manipulate that by acting like you've been working hard in the wrong direction.
If you really believe that, you're either a nepo hire or you've never worked a day in your life, and you typed that from your mom's basement.
The main failure from this firing is no one told her that she will get fired if her performance doesn't improve. Since no one did this is just a layoff not a firing for performance.
Um. it's a sales position. Your whole job description is making sales. She knew. She tried to dance around it before they brought it up. She knew. No sales in the last quarter? Seriously, you're arguing she should have been told and had no way of knowing that was coming? Nah, guarantee those meetings where the manager complimented her, there was discussion about the sales right in between two compliments. There's one metric in sales. Sales. There's always a board, a chart, reminders on the intranet, on the team meetings, huddles, one on ones. I don't believe for a moment no one ever mentioned the key metric of her position was the sales numbers. She even mentioned she was on a ramp. A 3 month ramp, in most companies is a tiered quota over time that starts at the min (likely 1) and moves up to the quota. She had zero. bruh
@@gnitsaf Ok dude just go ahead and make shit up in order to justify a company. Careful not to choke on those boots
@@MrDgf97 what did I make up?
@@MrDgf97Lmao imagine actually being illiterate. Read the fucking comment my guy, then you might see he actually has a point. Too hard? I'll explain:
It's a SALES role.
She had ZERO sales.
She got fired.
Questions?
If your job was to be a waiter and after 1 week you had served zero tables, you'd get fired.
If your job was to do research in a lab, and after months you still hadn't done any research... guess what? You'd get fired.
Not any different here. Source - I've worked as an account manager/account executive.
Happened to me 2 weeks ago..2 years of "nice" and "very good", nothing to improve, and got fired
When I was laid off during 2022 it was a meeting with hundreds of employees and it felt impersonal. But later some friends from Google got laid off by email sent late at night and didn’t find out until they couldn’t badge in to the office.
Guess the moral of the story is, the early the company layoff the less awful it is.
I am an engineer, but I worked at a company that made everyone there go into sales for.a month because of low numbers. Sales was the most brutal experience of my life, and I was lucky I had an amazing supporting manager I still call my friend to have my back and my team was the highest performing doing sales and got a bonus. Sales is rough, and getting thrown into the wolves like that killed me. I feel bad for salespeople, even though they will sometimes make your life miserable by selling features or products your company does not have. It’s just cut throat.
Fired by email -> heartless corp!
Fired by HR -> use AI!
I personally prefer email, wastes less time
She's not selling knives door to door. The sales cycle for IT services and SaaS can take months regardless of whether or not you're a superstar. If she wasn't just handed some deals to close as she onboarded, it's totally expected to not have closed anything after a few months.
True.
But if they need to cut people...why not the new people that aren't fully situated yet?
@@thekwoka4707 Then they should say that they are laying her off instead of lying about the reason they're cutting her. The CEO is *still* trying to disguise the reason.
Certainly the sales cycle for IT services and SaaS is less than a quarter? I googled it. 84 days on average for large sales. if the sale is under 5k 40 days. She said she had great relationships with the clients. Great. She didn't discuss any of the offers she pitched them or how they were hammering out specifics, just that they were "close". Ah "close" the favorite phrase of the axed sales person. Did she discuss how she prioritized her leads? How she effectively utilized her time to close the deal. She didn't mention that she generated any leads that others got to close. She didn't mention how she solved and salvaged a customer account. She mentioned nothing of any of her KPI's because in sales, the only KPI is sales. She had none. She didn't talk like any sales person I ever met that used their time to sell. She was socializing and hoping they would buy. She wasn't closing just like she couldn't close those HR reps on keeping her. She can't even sell herself. She's not a sales person. That's ok.
@@gnitsafI don't think anyone would disagree that she's not meant for sales. You're not understanding the objections people have about the way this company decided to lay her off. We know there was a company wide layoff, and she was included in this list. For HR to pretend that this was solely on her, is such a bald faced lie, you can hear the HR lady and director squirm not to go into any detail.
The situation seems thus: Cloudflare predicted to need an X amount of workers to produce Y contracts. They hired too many, likely on purpose to find out who are the gems and who are the turds among them. Then fired the ones that were deemed below standard in a mass layoff. But for the girl, she's being singled out and is not being told the truth of her situation. Maybe if she did get some sales, she wouldn't have been included in this layoff. We can't tell from the outside. But Cloudflare is trying to avoid the responsibility of taking on too many people. That's what stings, she might have to depend on unemployment benefits and them trying to squirm out of their responsibilities would deprive her of that.
Depends, Cloudflare is a household name and most of the deals they get are inbound lol. And other people in our new hire class had already closed deals, I'm in tech sales as well and I'm aware of how cutt throat the industry is we get paid big base and big comp plans and are expected to perform right away it's just how it is.
It's honestly kind of surreal just how much I agree with your side commentary... even when it's contrary to the overall pulse of general response.
the only good thing HR can say is nothing
After having just gotten "right sized" out of -redacted- after being there just shy of 2 years, my heart goes out to her. These companies are taking advantage of situation to remove remote and WFH workers.
they offshore even more jobs to india.
@@bigbarry8343they will have fun with top tier communication and programming skills!
I got right-sized a year ago. So shitty lol
They are removing cruft. And it warms my heart.
This is why if you track your own accomplishments in your own personal PM system that highlights the value it creates for projects/companies, and you can just show anyone who may not be aware of just how much you've done
I mean it's a lot of work, but it's a record of what you've done that you control the narrative of.
entire point of the video is that such numbers don't matter, you think even if she proved outcomes that would impact what the HR people were doing lulz.
@@TheNewton yes it does and in this video, she herself wasn't able to provide that.
Based on her own words, her accomplishments are:
- she has great relationships with clients
- she has been on great meetings
- she is doing a great job (according to her manager)
- she's been working hard
Notice how none of these are actual accomplishments. She is a sales person, and her highlights should be centered around the number of deals she's closed. And what did she say about this? "I haven't closed any deals yet." Case closed.
We can all agree that companies are shtty, but in this situation, the employee simply was not able to meet expectations.
She did track her accomplishments. The problem is she's a sales person. She made zero sales in the last quarter. Gone. Period. That shouldn't even be a surprise. Shouldn't be a discussion. You can't be a sales person when you don't make sales. Don't make sales long enough... what did you think would happen?
if you have to show your work, then you havent been visible enough and its too late
@@gnitsafshe also said she has been there for 3 months 1 of which was a holiday and had to go through onboarding too. This also doesn't explain why the rest of her coworkers were being fired.
I saw a round of layoffs 3 months ago in my current job, my managers chatted I DIDNT KNOW ABOUT IT
They really coaxed that "no" in there
Plus, the reasons for the firing needs to be in the government form for social insurance and they're unable to provide a reason
"I'm sorry YOU FEEL this way"