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Why do they say the person is being let go for poor performance? Does that benefit the company somehow? Training someone for three months and then firing them
by donmcronald 3y ago
Why do they say the person is being let go for poor performance? Does that benefit the company somehow?
Training someone for three months and then firing them after a couple weeks of real work, during what I assume is a normally slow period, doesn’t look good. It looks incompetent to hire people that aren’t needed and it’s a huge dick move to gaslight them by saying it’s for performance if it wasn’t.
Why not just be upfront? If the market changed and the front lines need to take the hit because the wealthy won’t, at least have the courtesy of leaving those employees with their confidence intact.
Not cool IMO and I’ve always been bullish on Clouflare.
- jakderrida 3y ago> Why do they say the person is being let go for poor performance? Does that benefit the company somehow? Yeah, seriously. Are they just being complete dicks for no reason? Only alternative is they want to deprive her of Unemployment or something, making them even worse people. I couldn't even watch the whole thing. I thought they were doing layoffs anyway. Why needlessly bully some new hire on top of that?
- iamflimflam1 3y agoIn a lot of countries there are laws around laying people off. Someone new is generally in a probation period and if you want a quick/cheap way to get rid of them then - poor performance - probation failed.
- fvrghl 3y agoGenerally in the US, you don’t get unemployment if you are fired for cause. Cloudfare is trying to make it seems like it’s termination for cause instead of a layoff.
- Spivak 3y agoWhich is silly, you have to declare layoffs in advance anyone fired during the let go period should automatically be be fired without cause. The perverse incentives to just dig up dirt on random employees to find cause and save on unemployment insurance is can't be some unknown thing.