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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Ah but I do agree, it is discourteous to fire someone and cut off their income totally in one fell swoop. I always gave at least two weeks’ pay, sometimes more depending on the person, tenure, and position.
It happens. Move on. You lost.
Now your personal brand is tarnished
Let me see if I get this right
Interviewed remotely
Hired remotely
Worked remotely
Fired remotely
Is stunned that firing is impersonal
“Here comes that Crybaby Influencer! Thank her profusely for her application, and her deep interest in ‘caring about’ the efficiency of our business, then let her know, ‘we will be collecting applications for an undetermined period of time.’
Under no circumstances, are you to take her on a tour of the facility or invite her back for the second interview!”
Maybe she would prefer working in a communist country where everyone is garmented a job according to their ability.
A country where the employee pretends to work and the employer pretends to pay them.
The “No Regerts” tattoo is funny, too.
Companies today are heartless and without any compassion for its Employees. I got laid off at 3 AM from a call from my Manager after 16 years of service, only saving grace I got a decent severance but the ones getting the ax behind me were not so lucky as they only got a month’s severance.
“Only Fans is holding on line 1”
something...something ...copulated canine something. .
She appears to be very enamoured with herself, and her inflated lips that don’t meet in the middle.
You are clueless and classless. Obviously never worked in corp job.
The audacity of that last sentence is amazing. You have no idea what my professional background looks like.
I suspect the company was using some ‘tools’ that they’d rather not disclose, much as the police illegally used Stingrays for YEARS before the public was told about them.
Probably sucked at sales; looks like a spoiled, entitled brat to me.
The pumped-up duck lips were not only unnecessary, they are unfortunate.
They detract from her natural beauty, they don’t add to it.
Employers expect employee loyalty.
LOL. yeah. There is that.
Personally, I would think you could be nicer about it, but from the description in the comments, I'd almost be surprised if her "boss" even knew her name.
They should have sent her a box just to see if she would pack it up.
“””Having worked in the corporate world in a prior life, I was not surprised to see someone terminated that way. For one thing, employers have a strong incentive to be as vague and impersonal and bureaucratic as possible when firing someone — just to avoid anything that might expose them to a lawsuit.”””
Having worked in the corporate world this is exactly how terminations are handled.
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