Recording being fired is the new thing? Of course!

The people are pushing back. Or at least recording the vague, cold, scripted process of being "terminated" from corporations. Some of these companies call themselves being cool, being "fun," but ultimately end up leading you into nowhere. 

Cloudflare let this person go only after being with the company since August of 2023, but for a salesperson some would consider this a bit unfair. Given the fact Cloudflare is so young, maybe exceptions could be made, also due to the fact of the CEO's response. Their response: 

We fired ~40 sales people out of over 1,500 in our go to market org. That’s a normal quarter. When we’re doing performance management right, we can often tell within 3 months or less of a sales hire, even during the holidays, whether they’re going to be successful or not. 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. 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. We don’t always get it right. And sometimes under performing employees don’t actually listen to the feedback they’ve gotten before we let them go. Importantly, just because we fire someone doesn’t mean they’re a bad employee. It doesn’t mean won’t be really, really great somewhere else. Chris Paul was a bad fit for the Suns, but he’s undoubtedly a great basketball player. And, in fact, we think the right thing to do is get people we know are unlikely to succeed off the team as quickly as possible so they can find the right place for them. We definitely weren’t anywhere close to perfect in this case. But any healthy org needs to get the people who aren’t performing off. That wasn’t the mistake here. The mistake was not being more kind and humane as we did. And that’s something @zatlyn and I are focused on improving going forward. --Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO

Considering today's atmosphere surrounding making a living, it's NOT surprising more people are taking to the Internet to voice their concerns of corporations being a bit unfair, or unforthcoming. 

While one should always accept where their fault is and improve on it, it's also worth mentioning sometimes there is no fault of the employee. The employer (as I said in a TikTok) simply changes the rules to suit their agenda. 

Companies want to be treated as humans but tend to dehumanize whenever they please.

Here's VICE's take:

“Cold, unexplainable firing by people they’ve never met - even after years of loyalty for some,” she wrote. “All people saying they wish they would have stood up for themselves as I did. Heartbreaking stories of people’s lives suddenly changing with no explanation and just told to ‘deal with it’. What??? I’ll never be able to wrap my mind around it. We as employees are expected to give 2 weeks notice and yet we don’t deserve even a sliver of respect when the roles are reversed?” --Vice

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