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Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her (ody.sh)
submitted 11 months ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/videos@lemmy.world
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I can’t give more approval for this woman, she handled everything so well.

The backstory is that Cloudflare overhired and wanted to reduce headcount, rightsize, whatever terrible HR wording you choose. Instead of admitting that this was a layoff, which would grant her things like severance and unemployment - they tried to tell her that her performance was lacking.

And for most of us (myself included) we would angrily accept it and trash the company online. Not her, she goes directly against them. It of course doesn’t go anywhere because HR is a bunch of robots with no emotions that just parrot what papa company tells them to, but she still says what all of us wish we did.

(Warning, if you've ever been laid off this is a bit enraging and can bring up some feelings)

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is, no joke, not trying to exaggerate, exactly the kind of language-as-weapon stuff Orwell was always talking about.

Honest, authentic communication and doublespeak look the same on the surface, but the way they’re generated is completely different. One enhances perception and information processing using a shared semantic context built in the air between people trying their best to accurately describe what they see. The other degrades the quality of the language model in everyone’s heads, due to continually violating the relationship between words and reality, making everyone in the room less capable of understanding literally anything.

Unless the person in the room doesn’t put up with it. Brittany stayed on task and didn’t accept bullshit answers, and so even if there were some consequences to speaking up (in this case it sounds like she had nothing to lose) they’d be less severe than the literal brain atrophy that results from swallowing bullshit with a smile.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

The thing that really sticks out is "I understand how you feel". They never accept that they may be unfair, that her criticism is valid, just "sorry you feel that way."