Getting fired online....
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This woman posted a video of herself getting fired online. Whatever the specifics are, and whatever the rights or wrongs of posting it online, this is just shockingly horrible management. She gets let go by two people she's never met before apparently with absolutely no warning whatsoever, and what's more they can't even give her any details.
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in a way, that would be more frustrating than getting fired by an automated email. The pretense of having humans there, who are operating as robots following their programming, would be extra infuriating.
The CEO posted a response somewhere and made it clear that this person was fired because she was not a promising employee. But he admitted that the manner of the firing was not ok.
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[cynic hat on]
Wonder what prompted her to record the call and her reactions. How much of a surprise was it, really?
[cynic hat off]
What a really shitty way to deal with this. I thought I heard that she worked for Cloudfare. If that's the case, there's a TON of negative publicity that'll come around, should this go viral.
And the guy who says that, "In two years, it'll be an AI avatar that does this..." I fear he's right.
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[cynic hat on]
Wonder what prompted her to record the call and her reactions. How much of a surprise was it, really?
[cynic hat off]
What a really shitty way to deal with this. I thought I heard that she worked for Cloudfare. If that's the case, there's a TON of negative publicity that'll come around, should this go viral.
And the guy who says that, "In two years, it'll be an AI avatar that does this..." I fear he's right.
@George-K said in Getting fired online....:
And the guy who says that, "In two years, it'll be an AI avatar that does this..." I fear he's right.
The thought of delegating letting somebody go to either HR wonks or an AI is just horrific. I wonder who made that call.
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The company was Cloudflare
The video has gained so much attention in the days since being posted online that the CEO of Cloudflare took to X, formerly Twitter, to respond to the situation.
CEO Matthew Prince claimed the company had fired around 40 sales people out of more than 1500, which he branded a “normal quarter”.
He said they can often tell within the first three months if a sales hire is going to be successful or not, even when those three months fall during a holiday period.
“Sadly, we don’t hire perfectly. We try to fire perfectly. In this case, clearly we were far from perfect. The video is painful for me to watch,” he wrote.
“Managers should always be involved. HR should be involved, but it shouldn’t be outsourced to them. No employee should ever actually be surprised they weren’t performing.”
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I understand his point - though the statistic that "we fire 40 people quarterly" says something about their hiring process.
But the whole thing was absolutely shitty. She should have had advanced warning, with specifics, of how her performance was sub-standard. @Doctor-Phibes is right - details are secondary to the process in how this transpired.
I'm so glad I'm retired.
Also, as the video on TYT asks, did she poison the well for future employment. Is she poison?
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Meaningless blather: I've been offered a sales job in every piano store I've shopped at.
Second meaningless blather: The one sales job I had, I was the company's best producer in my area, ever.
In sales, you either have it or you don't. Training can make a good salesman better. It cannot make a bad salesman into a good salesman.
