Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her

• HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At least in my state, if your employment is terminated for poor performance, the employer can deny unemployment insurance claims.

  Which in itself is a total bullshit rule. What, so people who are bad at a certain job don’t deserve help while they find a job they’re better at?

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  • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a lot of good evidence that helping people is pretty un-American.

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  • thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s one of the reasons why companies will put on a PIP(performance improvement plan) if they want to fire you. They try to get you to sign something saying you understand and acknowledge that your performance needs to improve.They need to have some sort of paper trail in order for them to be able to deny the unemployment claim. A company can’t just say “oh yeah that guy sucked” unless there was a substantial issue like you getting into a physical confrontation with someone

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  • tatterdemalion@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually making good on insurance claims would defeat the point of insurance, which is to make money off of people in need, i.e. those who can’t afford the financial burdens that insurance purports to protect you from.

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  • qbus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t you need to be working somewhere for 6 months to get unemployment? She’s been there for 4

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• FanciestPants@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seems like it would also have the effect of making the employee less appealing to any potential future employers. When asked in an interview why they left their previous job, these people have to decide whether to say honestly that they were let go because of mismanagement and risk their possible new job on whether the background check includes a call to the HR department of your last employer, or give the line that would match the HR record and say they were fired for poor performance. Either way is going to make it pretty hard to get hired, and so if Cloudflare ever needs to hire again in the future, there’s a decent chance these people will still be seeking employment.

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  • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is no professional, moral, or practical reason to attempt to be “honest” about why you were let go unless you are in a hyper local industry where everyone knows each other personally. Obviously even Cloudflare doesn’t have a solid idea why they let her go.

    Employment verification usually goes to a third party either way.

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    • FanciestPants@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ll take this into consideration the next time I look for a new position. I’ve never been on the side of performing or requesting a background check on a potential employee, but have almost always been asked why I left my previous employer when I’ve interviewed for a new position. Thanks internet friend.

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      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, just to second them, most companies won’t share much more than the vaguest of summaries of your time there. Such as “yes they worked here between these dates doing job”. Keep in mind the person answering the phone most likely doesn’t even know who you are unless you give a direct line to your direct report.

        But there’s a bigger reason; they could potentially be sued for damages. If what HR has in the file isn’t true, or the manager misremembers, or any other long list of things. They would be defaming you. Hard to win, harder to prove, but still something most companies want to steer clear of.

        There are also state laws which dictate what can and cannot be said about a past employee, but that varies from state to state.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I worked at Teledyne and got laid off. The official policy was that they wouldn’t give anyone a reference good or bad just confirm that the person worked there. Shit people making shit products. They threatened to not give me any severance unless I agreed to never badmouth the Teledyne corporation on the internet. I took the money.

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    • greenskye@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The professional workaround is ‘are they eligible for rehire’. If you’re laid off it’s a yes, if not it’s a no.

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “I took the money.”

      Uh oh, now you’re going to have to give it back for spilling the tea!

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I will get right on that. Maybe I will show up to my ex-manager’s manager house and discuss the matter with him. You know on a rainy night near midnight. Is that the proper way to do this?

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