Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her
BassaForte@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I was laid off almost a year ago. I don’t even know the reason why. Our team was fairly small, and targetted a specific product within our company that was still very profitable and we had a lot of work lined up for it. They let go of me, two other devs, the senior qa person and a few others. Our team did not over hire during COVID, in fact our team shrunk during that time. I had a good rep within the company and with the team and I know for a fact the others did too.
My only guess is that the company was trying to save money by shrinking each team, despite already being small (there were 6 left after the layoffs and about 12 before).
My layoff meeting was with my boss and an HR person that I had already been aquatinted with. They did ensure me that my performance was not the reason I was being let go, but they couldn’t get into specifics either. Strangely my boss seemed emotionally unphased.
That experience taught me the lesson that no matter who you are in a company, you’re disposable.
I was laid off almost a year ago. I don’t even know the reason why.
One of my teammates got laid off because a completely different business sector lost a major, major contract. Since the math didn’t add up, everyone suffered. It doesn’t fucking matter. We’re all just cogs in the CEO’s machine. Fuck them.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 months ago
That’s a good lesson to know. I’ve had great bosses who definitely care about me. But - they aren’t the ones who have laid me off. They were directed to by their boss’ boss. I remember my boss literally crying as she let me go, she didn’t want to, but the company forced her to.
HR, the company, we’re all disposable. But, I still try to look for a good manager
BassaForte@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I do think my manager at the time was a good manager and I’m sure he cared to some degree. He was usually pretty stone cold emotionally but I expected that to be different on that day I guess.
And yeah I understand that the company forced him to do it, I’m not blaming him at all.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve had to let people go. I was a wreck inside, but was stone cold on the outside because who the fuck am I to be getting emotional when it isn’t my livlihood being taken away?