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Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her (ody.sh)
submitted 2 years ago by 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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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

HR are all class traitors. Their sole purpose in life is to pay you as little as possible and protect the people at the top who are stealing everyone elses' profits. Fuck anyone working in HR.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That really isn't true, and you would know that if you were actually familiar with HR.

    HR, for stuff like this, is just the messenger. Some exec told them to fire people, and gave them a directive on who to fire. The HR reps couldn't answer her questions because they likely don't know the answer.

    Yes, the job of HR is to protect the company, but mostly that's protecting the company from the company breaking labor laws.

    But, I'm sure I'll get downvoted to hell because the hive mind loves to shit on HR, which is exactly what the execs are wanting. They're scapegoats.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I am very familiar with HR at multiple fortune 500 corporations.

    You're so close to getting the point. You realize HR are the executives' scapegoats. HR's purpose is to serve the rich assholes fucking everyone else over. Anyone working HR is complicit whether they're intelligent enough to realize it, or just a useful idiot. Execs want and need their scapegoats. People should realize this and avoid HR (class traitor) jobs.

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    • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Honestly the problem I see here is not the layoff, which was disguised as a "lack of performance". Yes, it wasn't done perfectly, but still, it's no tragedy.

    What is definitely the problem here is the absolute lack of a social security system in the US. That should be implemented.

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Holy fucking shit American corpospeak is pure fucking cancer. Just fucking talk normally.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I only know American culture from the internet, and knowing all of the memes and blog posts and everything, it's still mindblowing to see it in action to this degree and in a situation that is probably representative for so many.

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    • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    this must be a result of the recent internet downtimes.

    Good infrastructure bois, keep at it. Soon there will be nothing left.

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