Posted on 01/19/2024 4:25:39 PM PST by DoodleBob
A tech company employee who went viral for filming her firing and sharing it on TikTok says her video has brought a flood of support.
“I don’t regret sharing that,” ex-Cloudflare employee Brittany Pietsch told The Wall Street Journal. “I have received so many messages of people telling me, ‘I wish I would have stood up for myself the way you did.’ ”
Pietsch, 27 years old, shot to social-media fame last week with a 9-minute video of herself repeatedly asking two Cloudflare representatives why she was being let go, and why her manager wasn’t on the call.
“To be let go for no reason is like a huge slap in the face,” Pietsch, who was an account executive for Cloudflare, says in the video.
She said she was fired last Tuesday from the San Francisco-based company, a provider of cloud-based networking and cybersecurity services. Her remote job, which she started at the end of August, was to sell Cloudflare services to businesses, Pietsch said.
Pietsch was working from her home in Atlanta when a 15-minute call popped up on her work calendar. She had heard others at Cloudflare were being let go, so when the call came, she hit record on her phone.
Pietsch said she never intended for her video to go viral. She recorded it so she could share what happened with family and friends, she said. She posted it on TikTok Wednesday without mentioning or tagging Cloudflare. The company is named in the video conversation.
After she posted, someone else took the video, added Pietscs’s name, name and her ex-employer’s, and shared it on X and other social-media sites, Pietsch said. It has since been reshared and viewed millions of times.
One of those viewers was Cloudflare’s chief executive, Matthew Prince.
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She may be right. But now it’s harder for her to find a new job.
“Her remote job, which she started at the end of August, was to sell ...”
And she didn’t sell
Brittany, they can let you go for any reason whatsoever other than race or gender. You are en employee at the employer’s pleasure, and for the benefit of the employer.
Who cares?
I watched the video.
Her firing was classless. It’s a textbook example of how NOT to do it. For openers, her boss wasn’t on the call. If you’re going to RIF someone, be a man and do it yourself.
But I suspect you’re right.
People who respond to this thread.
Ok, that’s funny.
Well...there’s always OnlyFans. LOL
Common courtesy seems to be dead everywhere. If an employee decides to take another job, it’s common courtesy to give at least a week’s notice. Likewise, if an employee is fired, it’s common courtesy to give a reason.
For one thing, you can’t improve yourself if you don’t know why you were let go. Was it just company downsizing, and had nothing to do with you? Or did it have everything to do with you?
Remote worker... at least they didn’t have to give her a box to pack up her stuff
She had a 90 day training period which took her to Thanksgiving, shutdown for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years and enterprise software at BEST is a 90 day lead time to close.
So basically she showed up for maybe 20 days of work after training, during the holidays, at the end of the year when you can’t get two decision makers working on the same days, let alone one or more teams, to make an introduction let alone to make a major purchasing decision that require dozens of budget and technology checks to be completed.
Which is why these sales processes take at best 90 daya.
My wife implemented a multi million dollar enterprise solution that is going to take a calendar year to build out and took 6-8 months from introduction of competitors to contract.
She’s unemployable in my book, simply for recording a company meeting like that.
Im sure the engineers and money makers in that company still have jobs.
No one (well, hardly anyone) likes a crybaby.
Maybe her boss got a 15 min. call just before she did.
It soumds like she took a lot of those courses where a majority of the grade is the work, not the actual answer.
You don’t have to give a reason and many times it is better not to. If it is a layoff of a large number of people, you could say “you do great work, the company is downsizing and many positions are being eliminated but we’ll give you a great recommendation” etc. But if you are firing an individual, better to say as little as possible. Do it fast, quick, and then be quiet. Let them rant if they must but just listen. Don’t say things like “this is hard for me” because it is far worse for the person being fired.
Most of the time I’ve had to fire someone it’s because they are no good or they cause problems or there is a personality conflict and I had to decide which person to keep for the sake of peace. In those cases, definitely can’t tell them why it will only be more hurtful and cause more drama.
Reached out but ‘didn’t hire her’. Sounds like the Seattle Seahawks and Kapernick.
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