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

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Performance metrics are always set against the employee. The company always wants the option to fire so metrics are set higher than possible. So if you ever meet metrics your probably cheating and that's fireable itself. It's all rigged.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Damn, why can’t these corporate idiots recognize the value of morale? Like, there are reasons to tell the truth that go beyond naïveté. If you’re fair with your employees, they fucking love you, and do so much better.

It’s like mosquitos vs wolves, r-type vs k-type strategies. There’s a whole different universe of getting ahead that has to do with bringing value and playing fairly, and so much upper management just seems totally blind to it.

I think people without conscience don’t understand what morale is. I think they understand motivation, but not morale.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because they only thing they value is money. Right now money, not future money. So long as the numbers go up, the sociopaths in the c suite couldn't possibly give fewer shits.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Well, the value fear and desire. They just don’t comprehend morale because it’s outside of their emotional universe.

As in, they don’t understand it. They don’t realize there’s something missing from their model of how people operate.