Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer
I love that she recorded this. I love that people get to see what these giant corporations are like.
From the human perspective, how could she ever improve with this feedback? I would be furious in her position. I’ve had to fire and lay off people, and I hope I did better. pic.twitter.com/bTIFPx0OJL
— President-Elect a (λx→false) true (@knewter) January 12, 2024
I stumbled across this short clip of a young woman being fired via Zoom. It struck me as an apt metaphor for the way Heritage Americans, i.e. Whites, are being dealt with on a societal scale in not only the business world, but politically.
They are being replaced. It isn’t a feeling; it is a reality. The language used to carry out this disenfranchisement has heretofore been couched in all kinds of squishy, deflecting, meaningless expressions that fail to state the obvious, but rather to obscure what is actually happening. To promote diversity, to boost inclusion, to provide opportunity, yadda, yadda, yadda. While these phrases sound like something positive, they are the opposite for the objects of this displacement.
For example-
Corporate America Promised to Hire a Lot More People of Color. It Actually Did.
In the year following the Black Lives Matter protests, S&P 100 companies added more diverse workforces.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-black-lives-matter-equal-opportunity-corporate-diversity/
There is simply no accounting for this type of disparity in corporate hiring unless you are deliberately trying to eliminate White workers in order to replace them.
The worker in the clip- judging by her makeup and elocution- is almost certainly a standard progressive, liberal, college graduate who did everything required by the current culture to reject the traditions of her forebearers in order to promote cultural diversity. She believes, mistakenly, that a rational discourse and calm demeanor will help her to hold on to a job that simply will not be an option for her, and certainly any children she may have in the future if they resemble her.
She is unaware of how revolutions operate, how the first victims of any Marxist styled overthrow of the existing order are always the useful idiots who made it possible. It is especially touching when she attempts to use things like hard work, responsibility, meeting standards and showing up in order to defend herself, not understanding that each of those traits has already been identified as artifacts of White supremacy. I’m shocked they failed to point that out to her, she would have been appalled at her failure to adequately support the goals of the revolution.
What I found to be even more interesting was the language and tone of the two layoff specialists, a homosexual and a slightly older feminist middle manager who knew precisely which catchphrases and jargon to use on their GenZ victim in order to kiss her out the door. Nonsensical gibberish that speaks to nothing and gives up only their relief in still having their job, however distasteful it might be. Underneath it you can tell, when she confronts them directly, that they understand precisely what’s going on and that they too are probably on thin ice once the culling has been completed. But like a good capo, they’re just following orders.
This scene is a bit more entertaining, but it tells the same story- Art imitates life.
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At least she’s a girl, so there’s a chance to get a new job. Try being a White heterosexual male in today’s world; you won’t get the time of day from any company and are labeled as Hitler daily by society.
They never give a shit what color the electrician is when the power is out.
And if the electricians could ever figure that out, most of their rulers would sit in the dark.
I wouldnt hire a black or foreign electrician.
Hiring a white guy is no guarantee of success.
Jus’ sayin…
…because they all look black in the dark!
Hitler always carried a sidearm, did he not?
I was laid off by the Rat, during a mass lay off, and it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
Who is the Rat? What year did this take place? What did you find for work after being laid off?
The rat is Disney World, back in the early 90s, I went to grad school after and ended up doing much better than if I had stayed.
Is that the same rat they stick up their asses?
They don’t call themselves the ZooCrew for nothing.
yikes
I would have guessed “Raytheon”.
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Stop whining and start a business. As the corporations continue their match into an assemblage of clowns and diversity hires, smart, small business will destroy them.
What does your small business do?
I started a ATV/UTV Motorcycle repair shop and business is great. Left the bullshit behind 5 years ago.
Awesome. My local CanAm dealer shop charges 149/hr shop labor. Go get em dude
What, no 20% extra charge for shop supplies and 7% for environmental fees?
The white mafia is hiring.
No taxes
No regulations
No certifications
No applications
No resumes
Just family
I hope you have better luck than me. My step sister tried to organize a stike at my business
That must have caused a rift.
They finally get around to replacing Whitey Bulger?
Piss off people on the internet. It must be very lucrative. Everyone’s doing it!
I would hope you are right.
You are quite the little historian, nobody.
There are an awful lot of Indians, chinks and other foreigners graduating from our schools that need employment . Sorry Americans .
Or … they skip the high tuition here and come here on an H1B visa … or the fake EB-5 ‘investor’ visa … or any one of dozens of other scams that end up putting US Citizens and Taxpayers out of work (or into lower paying work) or putting them onto the financial dole paid for by those same US Citizens and Taxpayers …
SSDD …
Purdue northwest has no shortage of foreigners here , I don’t know if they get a deal here or not but they are buying a lot of the properties here and filling the apartments driving up our costs
Maybe some obscure federal agency is funding their tuition???
Thā ar rilly geteen kwalitee educayshuns fer shur.
The nameless, faceless scourge of HR strikes again. You must be some kind of mental defect to want to work in HR in this day and age. My company’s’ HR is a complete and hysterical DIE joke, and they know it. Having some low-brow doucher whom you do not know fire you on a zoom call is lower than Lebron James giving another $50 to Akron City Schools.
They only hire certified ghouls for those positions since the turn of the century.
“It’s efficient” – Black Widow
It reminds me of the 2009 film “Up in the Air” where George Clooney flies around the country to perform in-person hatchet services for companies doing mass layoffs. Most companies don’t give a moment’s thought to whether they need to lay someone off. It’s brutal. I don’t know if it’s materially different in other societies. I think about that film often.
The fact that they don’t do it it person anymore and do it over Zoom or whatever is totally dehumanizing. In the past at least they had the courtesy to tell you to your face.
Business is business, and slaves can be replaced anytime.
The young lady obviously had ample opportunity to come up with a plan to confront the 2 termination specialists and did an admirable job of presenting her case, knowing that it was a lost cause. The termination specialists engaged her too much and never said anything coherent. I was once told that when you terminate someone, the less you say, the better. Let them get it off their chest and then say, “I’m sorry you feel that way.”
the ‘termination specialists’ have a combined IQ of 80. HR is quite literally where all the below average IQ that ‘graduate’ college end up. It is comprised of the least skilled, lowest aptitude workers … THE useful idiots. They are handed a list of skills to check off for applicants and dont think twice if the are told to hatchet anyone white.
Business and the economy in general is going to absolutely freefall now that the first entrants from Z enter the workforce and into lower management. These are the first entrants that have been indoctrinated through the entirety of K – 12 and college.
It’s not our imagination.
FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS : LABOR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS — 2022
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/forbrn.pdf
Funny shit right there! Not only the chick in the vid but all you folks in the comments section. Try a job in the construction industry, especially being a white guy. Feelings and attitude and all the other shit whined about. Cry me a river and fill out a “Hurt Feelings Report”.
I’ll one-up construction – 28 years in upstream oil and gas. Laid off 3 times, run off three times, fired twice. Got laid off once for finding oil and gas where it wasn’t supposed to be and embarrassed the Exploration Manager. Industry ran on hot air after the big layoffs of 1981 (gas) and 1985 (oil). Finance and process driven now mostly – no different than most other companies.
I spent 30+ years chasing drilling rigs all over the nation, retired as a Mud Engineer. I didn’t speak spanish so my job became damn near impossible to do. The big corp’s are a soulless pit of despair. I found another occupation and walk out my back door for work now.
Threw lead tong for Noble Drilling and Texaco in the Gulf out of Morgan City in 1975. Saw two men disabled for life in four months…then I got a worm bite on my left hand by a clown who didn’t know how to use the air horse.
I remember tossing 100 lbs. sacks of ‘mud’ below decks to the point past exhaustion during a panic gas bubble possibility. A further encouragement to get off the rigs, and decided to find another way to make a living while I still had 10 fingers and two hands.
Became a barge handler in The Big Easy during my version of 5 Easy Pieces…then I got knocked out by a wild steel cable and almost killed on the barges.
Ahhhh sweet birdbrain days of yout!
Watchoo talkin bout ? me and the guys talk bout our feelins all the time , group hugs , reach around’s , you know ?
On a serious note , quarterly all company meeting tomorrow down at the main office at noon . Yipee . Lectures from all the” cake eaters”, rah rah rah , meanwhile we’ve been working outside in like 16 degree weather for over a week . I think I’m probably just getting too old for this kind of thing .
Isn’t there a bit of inferring going on here?
That was a compassionately wordy analysis. Bitch had it coming. I don’t care how nice she is in person. She had power. She misused it. She will continue to misuse it. She is a reliable useful idiot, which is why we should never allow our women a choice on cultural fundamentals or political policy. Traditionalists would not suffer liberated women. Here we are, suffering.
I am no longer concerned about protecting my fellow subhumans from suffering. She looks like she had time to do a nice make-up job. How old is she? Did she marry and have children? Can she still? I think her best womb years are behind her. The enemy likes it that way.
For an earlier rhyme of history, see Livius, book 34, sections/chapters 1-3 and maybe 4 regarding the repeal of Lex Oppia and representing a speech by Cato in favor of keeping rather than annulling the law. It is ancient women’s liberation, useful for the state people to emasculate the potential challengers to their desired abuses.
Section 3 (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0148%3Abook%3D34%3Achapter%3D3):
Translation by Evan T. Sage (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0164%3Abook%3D34%3Achapter%3D3):
You’re right…but too late. The crabs are out of the trap.
Brevity is the soul of wit–William Shakespeare
“First, we kill all the lawyers” was his all time best if you ask me.
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It is no positive reflection on my life results that I just watched the whole video. I just realized something. The pro-matrix libtards are everywhere. This was:
Libtard vs. Libtard
It was almost like watching two pacifists not make a decision. The speech (and idea) patterns were not something I could ever do on either side. There is a cult logic to it, and be careful who your friends are:
Cuck #1 and Cuck #2 ? Oh Jesus God !!!
Don’t worry the DEI hired imbeciles are fucking Up everything they touch from military to FAA to every government alphabet agency .
Boeing aircraft losing parts in flight to DOJ at local , state and federal are packed to the gills with white leftist useful idiots managed by DEI niggers and faggots not to forget transgender mentally I’ll lunatics in charge
It’s all imploding into one steaming pile of debt loaded shit
Hope to make it to the final win but this time the body count will be on our streets
Stay aware and be ready to duck when TSHTF.
It is Idiocracy in the making.
Well said .
That creepy mollification…..”I heard you and can understand why you might feel that way”….in that condescending and patronizing voice.
Just give it to me straight. I can deal with that.
Sounds like the phony verbiage you might hear from a student that just finished 1st semester of Psychology 101 …
“You’re fired”. End of story.
Yeah. That whole “compassionate rapist” routine never flew with me either. Carnagie Melon School bullshit.
Tell her to come to The Midwest!!! Plenty of jobs here But she will have to work (Physical Labor) for a living.
Apparently that worker was in sales of some time. Started job in August. Fired a few months later having closed the grand total of ……… zero sales.
But she was a hard worker! And didn’t deserve to be fired! According to her.
Welcome to my world. I had no idea I was a broken man running the wrong way into depreciated consolidation. You go, grrrl! What use is a scrub like me for status the NWO way?
well… her title was Account Manager. Account Managers do not generally create sales, they deal more with the maintenance of the account and the obligations for services contracted. Typically the Business Development folks will seek out sales.
She admits she hasn’t closed on any contracts.
“Just because I haven’t closed anything that has nothing to do with my performance.”
Kegels can’t stall or reverse the aging process. So shallow is the Kegel grip. The contrast with what follows is stunning, but my sample size is admittedly inadequate. ABC. Always Be Closing.
“Put that fuckin’ coffee down!”
“Coffee is for closers!!!”
Welp, all I can tell you is what she herself and others said. She hadn’t closed anything.
I could care less if they fired her. Hopefully she takes the opportunity life just handed to her and gets knocked up, pronto. She’s a young woman who should be married and having babies, not pretending to do whatever someone does at Cloudflare after they’ve completed a three month ramp- whatever the hell that means.
My point had nothing to do with whether or not she was a value to the company, but rather that the people who act as foot soldiers for the Marxist Revolution are often the first to get the ax. When I see a woman in the corporate world my first thought is never is she good at her job? I assume, like most AA hires, that she’s simply acting as a corporate cockblock for a far more qualified White male, doing her part to speed up the dispossession.
If they wanted to fire someone they should start with whoever designed their website because it makes Gravity’s Rainbow read like Fun With Dick and Jane. What a disaster. I know less about the company now than when I didn’t know what they did and that’s not a joke.
Not a joke.
The first thing I did when brought in to turnaround a business was to fire all but one of the HR personnel. They were the bastion of left wing do nothing types. They were never missed. Same goes for this woman and her general ilk – she won’t be missed. Kinda like the old saying about first thing hang all the lawyers. First thing fire all the woke hires and people in departments that don’t add any value.
How can I get a job where I get to fire HR en masse?
Well, you have to not give a shit about corporate politics for one thing. Because doing what I did – saving distressed plants and companies – tends to make a lot of enemies. Focus on the results and don’t worry about anything else. You tend to be in demand as a gun for hire. But the casualty lists you create in the saving of said entities tends to make it impossible to reach the very top of large corporations. But you will always be wanted.
Of course it does! Those people wrecking the company have an AGENDA which does not align with the company’s goals or mission statement.
Gotta go! Gotta go!
If I had a job like that? I’d NEVER go home!
Cloudflare provides services to web users who need protection. Things like DDoS attacks (hundreds of robot accounts try to swamp a given website to deny information / access to their customers) require higher-level resources to defeat; Cloudflare provides such services and prevents the bots from getting through to the website.
That being said, their handling of these layoffs certainly makes one question why you would ever go to work for them in the future. Also, if this behavior (tormenting employees with unexpected layoffs) became widely enough known, their recruiting efforts might quickly run into quicksand, since who wants to risk going through this? Then again, neglect / unpleasant behavior seems to be the norm in employment these days; ghosting contacts, lack of feedback, lack of empathy and sheer abrasiveness is reported in many sectors of the economy. Civilizations deteriorate from erosion of personal relations, wherever the decay occurs.
Sales reps at my last 2 jobs are called account managers.
In my experience “Account Manager” done well is the back-end adjunct to an effective Business Development group that focuses on honesty more than short term results while still meeting goals. Hard to find, but a few companies used to operate that way.
In all fairness, she was one of many who were fired. It was not her individual results that got her fired. It sucks to embrace a new life and have it taken away before it can amount to anything, but team woman has screwed me over so consistently I am half as cold-hearted as Abigail is lately reputed to be.
Corporate is a structured philosophy of endurance. The company’s endurance. Not yours. It seems obvious to me, a non corporate ground pounder, a purchaser of material from the corporate behemoth only. Why does the large corporation pay and benefit their employees so much better than the small? Why do they have not the slightest loyalty to any employee (below a certain level)? Is it not plain to see? You are a unit of labor, of production, if you are necessary and functional within established guidelines (and you make no fatal political mistakes) you remain. If otherwise you are removed. A current fatal political mistake is to be the wrong pigmentation, gender reality, sex, sexuality, political affiliation or other current sociopolitical hot button issue. This will evolve, but the common understanding will remain.
The current dalliance with employing persons for reasons other than competence is not going to be a temporary one. The metrics of competence are being driven down until they meet the level of ability exhibited by those employed due to their political desirability. Your competence, if in excess of the diversity hire, is no benefit to you, it is a detraction to your desirability.
The union would call you a rate breaker and if you didn’t heed the warning your tires would be slashed and you might even sprout a nasty bunch of oozing purple, yellow and red lumps. Your corporate master simply removes you.
Get with it, get over it, grow up. You wanted the status, the pay, the benefits, the cush of the corporate job, this is the downside. Look at the bright side, they’ll go too far with the diversity jokestroke and call you back… if you aren’t too old and obsolete. Or maybe they won’t. It’s the same to them either way and you don’t matter at all.
100 percent correct! I’ve been self employed for my entire 48 years in service work and I’ve made my share of mistakes and pissed off some people that I probably (from a monetary standpoint) shouldn’t have, but I have never made more easy money than I’m making now since the scamdemic was instituted . I’m sure that it helps that I’m a certified master in electrical and mechanical trades and owe my start to a father who was a master bricklayer and that was my career too for the first 12 years until I decided that it was too hard on my back. I’ve done all kinds of shit jobs that paid obscenely that were much harder than easy stuff like electrical work simply because most folks won’t stoop to doing something menial. I am 67 and in pretty good shape for an old dude and I love working hard and making lots of money and have no intentions of ever retiring. There are a lot of opportunities out there if one is willing to get in the trenches because TPTB love their easy life and luxuries and don’t care what it costs. It may not always be like that but if things completely go to crap, heck, I was Amish until I was 29 and I still know how to survive with very little. I’ll be honest, I don’t want to, but most folks have no idea how to grow their own food, shoot and butcher their meat and can it to preserve it.
Back to this article, these kind of jobs (corporate)are completely disposable in the coming economy.
I would have never done what she did. My response to being told I’m being laid off would simply be – OH, OK. But what allowed me to be able to have that attitude was that I never lived paycheck to paycheck like too many do. I lived well below my means (had no debt other than a mortgage) and had adequate savings to where if I was out of work even up to a year it would not have been a problem.
Live paycheck to paycheck and yeah you will be kissing ass and begging to keep your job.
You had what’s called “Fuck You money”.
Live far below your means, it gives one practice for when it matches one’s means.
We ain’t broke. We got two dollars left. We’re in business!
A boomer no doubt.
Nope – Older.
It’s easy to live check-to-check when you make minimum wage. I pity the not-their-fault single mothers out in the world today.
IOW, there’s still virtue in a girl keeping her legs crossed?
Faggots and passive aggressive corporatespeak uptalkers.
Yep , I dont know how anyone lives in that world . I guess I can count myself lucky for being an outside dog all my life .
It has the advantage of seeing trouble coming before everyone inside notices it’s there.
And we can choose to sound the alarm or show the burglars where the silverware is kept.
Life outside the box is GOOD!
I couldn’t stand listening to that corporate faggot. All those fake produce nothing jobs out there in corporate America. Fuck them all. Useless motherfuckers.
She’s white, attractive and articulate. Obvious White Supremacy. She should have just told them both to go Fuck themselves.
Don’t forget incompetent. That is what got her fired. Of course, if she was black, trans, gay she would have likely survived. Gotta have more than one desireable attributes these days – just being a woman isn’t sufficient.
If she wasn’t living up to their expectations isn’t it management’s duty to inform her of that so she can improve? Minorities get change after chance after chance.
My experience is that almost no people change their job performance. It is most cost efficient to simply toss them than to waste resources and time trying to get lazy, incompetent oafs to become hard-working and effective.
Management’s duty is to make the largest possible profit within the bounds of the laws. They don’t have any duty whatsoever to inform her of any damn thing save where it impacts their legal obligations such as safety, etc.
Wake up.
Fucking “unproductives”. Rick Sanchez figures this shit out. Take a look. Free range those fuckers!
My experience is that AA hires rarely get performance reviews and seldom get coached. To the hiring manager (who is forced to play the AA game) it is like having a big pimple on your ass that you can’t reach. Best thing to do is get another manager to give the AA a promotion with more pay.
If only she had a male boss who was unhappy in his marriage and who “helped” her pull herself up by her bra straps on a regular enough basis that she got 2 promotions a year in his department with at least 3 pay increases. Saw that happen twice, and one of the home wreckers became CEO of a large high tech company-until she wasn’t. Peter Principle in action.
Attractive?
She looks to me to have some sort of maxillary prognathism.
This is what happens when you let Jews hold citizenship.
They cry about it, but they are perfectly happy being ‘others’ as long as they have protected niches to prey on others.
Worrying about the citizenshsip of a jew is worse than worrying about the citizenship of a Nigerian. All that matters is if they are here.
When I was let go due to the vaxx mandate, it was done remotely because I wasn’t allowed into the office since I was unjabbed.
The two people who fired me, whom I knew well, and were both absolute Jonestown-worthy corporate believers, read off their HR provided corporate script. At the end of the proceedings they said we’d love to have you back if things change (or words to that effect). I bit my tongue.
Sure enough, things did change, and a month after I was let go, a corporate recruiter reached out to me to see if I would take the same position, as a contractor, with the ability to work remote.
I declined.
Fast forward a year and a half later, to Sep 2023, and the two people who fired me were both let go in a 5,000 employee purge.
Was it wrong that I found them getting let go uproariously funny?
Sounds similar to my experience, with the exception that the VP of HR lied to me when I asked him if I was on a DNR – do not rehire – list.
Almost one year to the day of my leaving, the company had rescinded the vaccine mandate. For grins and giggles, I applied for a position that I was eminently qualified for, mostly because it was nearly identical to the job I had left. Other than the pro forma auto reply email, I got nothing back from them. didn’t matter, cause I would’ve never gone back to work for that fascist company.
The chickenshit manager who let me go refused to give me a “To Whom It May Concern” letter signed by him stating that I was eligible for rehire. That after 28 years of service. m
Smart managers no longer give references. Last decade or two I only allowed a letter saying they worked from date x to y. Companies have been sued because references were inaccurate/untruthful, etc. Best just to avoid that crap. Also, not many people I know that hire trust them anyway.
Coffee is for closers.
But seriously, anyone who has raised daughters will know that fiery look of indignation.
It’s a good life lesson for her and hopefully, she’ll land at a company that genuinely values people more than process perspectives, performance indicators, and metadata.
Companies don’t value people. Where on earth would you get such an idiotic idea? At best they may pretend to value people, when they need them. And those performance indicators, etc. exist so as to be able to get rid of them more easily. And so as to allow some means of sorting them when some of them need to be eliminated from the payroll.
I repeat – companies don’t value their employees, despite anything they say. They put up with them as a necessary evil. Only an idiot would want to have employees. People hire employees because they have no other options.
For real.
I worked for a guy in the late 1980s until 1991. He was the owner of rhe company, with a younger, very beautiful wife. I haven’t worked with him since 1991. He’s in his mid-eighties now and he, his wife, my wife, and I all had dinner together at an expenisive Italian restaurant two weeks ago. After dinner, he and I argued over who was going to pay the bill and I talked him into letting me pay because, at his age, I might not get another chance. He laughed and conceded.
There is another way. That’s all I was sayin’, people.
AI to the rescue!
I would agree except in small consultin firms.. Big management consuting firms don’t care at all about employees. Its up or out. Small specialty firms typically do care, good people with specific experience are hard to find.
Well, it’s obvious YOU know what you’re talking about. Everything you’ve said on this thread? I have observed it myself in real time. My general rule: The bigger they are, the worse they are. But you’ll never be completely safe going with a small one either.
She’ll be fine.
If the purpose of the zoom call is to fire her, why does she waste any time listing all her accomplishments and pointing out how hard she worked? Surely, she doesn’t think that it will change the outcome?
When your boyfriend dumps you, you don’t beg or argue, pointing out how you cook the best lasagne west of Italy trying to get him to change his mind. It’s already over.
smh
I never explained shit when I fired someone. Nothing good to come out of that – the less said the better, and it minimizes opportunity for shit to be recorded and released/used against you. “You haven’t met expectations” was about the sum of it.
One job I knew going in to meet the boss I was getting fired. (I was part of a management group getting replaced. Cleaning house) I did very little talking, boss made sure I knew i was fired, most others were reassigned. Litte Prick would not even shake my hand at the end.
In hind sight, the leaders of that business unit were morally bankrupt.
I was downsized with 78 other employees (all working in the corporate HQ Puzzle Palace) on a Friday at the age of 46, I was running three divisions and loved my job as I had clawed my way into it based on undeniable P&L results! The downsizing was a bolt out of the blue during a surprise take over by a competitor.
I was told my firing had nothing to do with me…the new company was eliminating most of our now redundant HQ positions, and mine was just one of many.
In the line the following week to get our severance packages (it was in early December just before Christmas (Ho Ho Ho) we found out none of us would be getting their yearend bonuses – mine was 15% and I had the P&L numbers for 100%.
There were mostly extremely angry/bitter people getting cut loose hearing that! You could hear their raised voices in the exit interview rooms…and the air was filled with their angry seething resentment.
I was ok as I had a number of headhunters calling me and probably was headed for an equal or even higher paid job…but it would be a move…and I had a daughter in her senior HS year, plus I loved NC, the church I was in, and did not want to relocate…I was finally HOME.
I was polite and upbeat in my exit interview…made some jokes, shook hands with everyone and all those in line getting their severance packages. Then I went into the HQ building (HR had a separate building) and made the rounds saying goodbye to many, including the VP of OPS (I had a dotted line reporting to him) my boss the CFO and his the CEO. Left them all smiling and laughing.
The next day I was called to come in and meet with the VP of OPS…he offered me another position (at a 30% cut in pay) and told me I was the only one out of the 79 downsized who made a HQ goodbye tour, and had the attitude I did.
I was thrilled! Then they told me as I had accepted I was still eligible for my 15% bonus. (Jingle Bells!)
I worked my ass off in the new position.
Four months later the buyout fell apart over some stock issues…I was the first one of only a few of the 79 downsized who was offered their exact old job back. Most had burnt that bridge during their exit interview or had another job they didn’t want to leave or it was discovered what they did wasn’t really missed or needed.
I was thrilled again!!!
A year later I was given another promotion and a 20% raise.
My Father had told me as a boy to always leave a job and whenever possible a girlfriend on good terms…he said never burn those two bridges son…because you never know when you may want to go back and cross either one again.
As usual the Sage was right.
My, My, My. Aren’t you a good boy! You deserve a pat on the head.
Why would you want to shake hands with someone who just fired you? Better to pull your pants down and take a dump on his desk. Go out with some style.
Sounds like she didn’t go down for the boss.
That was fascinating and the analysis interesting. I have a lot of these smart Millennial women in my family. Let’s hope they get the message soon.
This is a video on career suicide. Nobody is going to hire her now. She wears a scarlet letter. Why risk hiring a shallow narcissistic young woman knowing that when she can’t do her job well she will trash your company via social media.
Truth is she sucked at her job. The process they used to let her go was terrible but that’s how it goes if you want to be part of MegaCorp.
“Why risk hiring a shallow narcissistic young woman…”
because the hirers are shallow narcissistic women
Learn to code!
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Great band name: “Woke♤Death”
There’s no need to beat yourself up. Your being “laid off” had ZERO to do with your performance! IF IT DID, you’d have been fired LONG before the “lay off”. THey just feel that it’s mandatory to say something besides “Bub bye!”
Take it to heart when they tell you they reserve the Right to fire you for no reason at all…same as you can quit and give them NO NOTICE. Not a fucking thing anyone can do about ANY of it…”legally”.
Nothing about life is permanent. Hug the cactus.
Cloudflare’s stock price has gone from $212 to $78 in just over a year. Analysts project it to drop another 12% this coming year. It IPO’d in 2019 and is in an industry with vicious competition. There seems to be nothing unique or special about their products. That’s probably one reason she couldn’t sell anything. I would be shocked if this company even exists in a couple of more years. They will almost surely get bought out, probably at A LOT less than the current $78.
She was an “Account Manager” = No discernible skills, in a cutthroat industry, working for a company that is nothing special. It looks like she was hired in what used to be called a “cattle call”. Hire 50 people. After 3 months, get rid of everybody but the top 5. She needs to develop a skill set, like others on here have said, and get herself some type of administrative job. Sales ain’t for her. If she stays in sales, she should watch the movie Glengarry Glen Ross. That would be her future in sales.