Brittany Peach gets fired

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the CEO's response:

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1745697840180191501

Perfect response, very well stated. Kudos to their PR team!

Yes and I will add Kudos to the HR duo who were on the call as well.
As Cloudfare CEO acknowledged, the process maybe wasn’t the best way to do this, but I thought the two people assigned to handle the call and give her the news remained professional and expressed an appropriate amount of empathy without losing their cool. They didn’t have answers, and acknowledged her feelings about what was happening. I’d give them an A+ for executing the crappy task they were given without escalating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Before starting my own company, I was a consistently top ranked sales person. I out performed established people with 0 ramp time. That's a ringer. This girl? Not a ringer. If this was her first sales job that's too bad, not a company to learn from.

Also, I was let go in multiple lay offs even at the very top. No one is immune. I have no idea why she would feel targeted. #1 and #100 are all let go.

This is true.

And part of why I think people responded to this video is they can either identify with that indignation one feels at the moment of the lay-off OR their e never been through it themselves and so are sort of indignant alongside her.
When I was laid off en masse during an acquisition many years ago, the parent company was kind/wise enough to hire a team of transition consultants to help manage the exit process. And I’ll never forget how surprised I was as a late 20-something when one of the consultants explained that we would likely walk through the five stages of grief in the next couple of weeks, because losing a job is such a huge loss. I wasn’t expecting that and I was even skeptical that it would happen to me. No, I’d be fiiiiiiine.
And I was.
But not before going through all the stages just as he said we would.
I think we just got to see Brittany in her anger phase…

She’ll be okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the CEO's response:

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1745697840180191501

Perfect response, very well stated. Kudos to their PR team!

Yes and I will add Kudos to the HR duo who were on the call as well.
As Cloudfare CEO acknowledged, the process maybe wasn’t the best way to do this, but I thought the two people assigned to handle the call and give her the news remained professional and expressed an appropriate amount of empathy without losing their cool. They didn’t have answers, and acknowledged her feelings about what was happening. I’d give them an A+ for executing the crappy task they were given without escalating.

+1. I watched this waiting to see the company eff up royally and… they just didn’t. Brittney comes off looking silly. Also she shouldn’t have said “bullsh*t” - it made her look juvenile. The HR people were top notch here. I’d hire them, not her, for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the CEO's response:

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1745697840180191501

Perfect response, very well stated. Kudos to their PR team!

Yes and I will add Kudos to the HR duo who were on the call as well.
As Cloudfare CEO acknowledged, the process maybe wasn’t the best way to do this, but I thought the two people assigned to handle the call and give her the news remained professional and expressed an appropriate amount of empathy without losing their cool. They didn’t have answers, and acknowledged her feelings about what was happening. I’d give them an A+ for executing the crappy task they were given without escalating.

+1. I watched this waiting to see the company eff up royally and… they just didn’t. Brittney comes off looking silly. Also she shouldn’t have said “bullsh*t” - it made her look juvenile. The HR people were top notch here. I’d hire them, not her, for sure.

Those people did fine given what they had to work with but Brittany was right that it’s very bad practice to give her no adverse feedback and not have her manager on the call and not be able to articulate anything about her performance. It’s within the company’s rights but it’s also crappy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course the company can fire her but at least they could admit it's because they over-hired not because she was deficient. There's no suggestion that anyone ever gave her any negative feedback and it's pretty wasteful from the company's perspective to hire someone for four months.

Agree with this and the poster above who mentioned the deranged speaking and pitiful training for the RIF "consultants". Offensive all around. Terrible look for this company and not Brittany. Good for her- I do hope she gets a bit of fame.

Too many people confuse fame and notoriety. They aren’t the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the CEO's response:

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1745697840180191501

Perfect response, very well stated. Kudos to their PR team!

Yes and I will add Kudos to the HR duo who were on the call as well.
As Cloudfare CEO acknowledged, the process maybe wasn’t the best way to do this, but I thought the two people assigned to handle the call and give her the news remained professional and expressed an appropriate amount of empathy without losing their cool. They didn’t have answers, and acknowledged her feelings about what was happening. I’d give them an A+ for executing the crappy task they were given without escalating.

I'm no brittany fan but I'm pretty sure those HR clowns got fired

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the CEO's response:

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1745697840180191501

Perfect response, very well stated. Kudos to their PR team!

Yes and I will add Kudos to the HR duo who were on the call as well.
As Cloudfare CEO acknowledged, the process maybe wasn’t the best way to do this, but I thought the two people assigned to handle the call and give her the news remained professional and expressed an appropriate amount of empathy without losing their cool. They didn’t have answers, and acknowledged her feelings about what was happening. I’d give them an A+ for executing the crappy task they were given without escalating.

+1. I watched this waiting to see the company eff up royally and… they just didn’t. Brittney comes off looking silly. Also she shouldn’t have said “bullsh*t” - it made her look juvenile. The HR people were top notch here. I’d hire them, not her, for sure.

Those people did fine given what they had to work with but Brittany was right that it’s very bad practice to give her no adverse feedback and not have her manager on the call and not be able to articulate anything about her performance. It’s within the company’s rights but it’s also crappy.

If it's at will, don't give any feedback on performance because that could open the company to liability. Just, "I'm sorry but I have some bad news, we have to let you go. byeeeeee!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the CEO's response:

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1745697840180191501

Perfect response, very well stated. Kudos to their PR team!

Yes and I will add Kudos to the HR duo who were on the call as well.
As Cloudfare CEO acknowledged, the process maybe wasn’t the best way to do this, but I thought the two people assigned to handle the call and give her the news remained professional and expressed an appropriate amount of empathy without losing their cool. They didn’t have answers, and acknowledged her feelings about what was happening. I’d give them an A+ for executing the crappy task they were given without escalating.

+1. I watched this waiting to see the company eff up royally and… they just didn’t. Brittney comes off looking silly. Also she shouldn’t have said “bullsh*t” - it made her look juvenile. The HR people were top notch here. I’d hire them, not her, for sure.

Those people did fine given what they had to work with but Brittany was right that it’s very bad practice to give her no adverse feedback and not have her manager on the call and not be able to articulate anything about her performance. It’s within the company’s rights but it’s also crappy.

Why have the manager on a call? It would only open the door to more questions and a debate the company doesn’t want to have.

You only do the gentle approach with the manager alongside HR when you are letting just one person go…and the manager is fully on board and well prepped. Otherwise it’s a disaster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the CEO's response:

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1745697840180191501

Perfect response, very well stated. Kudos to their PR team!

Yes and I will add Kudos to the HR duo who were on the call as well.
As Cloudfare CEO acknowledged, the process maybe wasn’t the best way to do this, but I thought the two people assigned to handle the call and give her the news remained professional and expressed an appropriate amount of empathy without losing their cool. They didn’t have answers, and acknowledged her feelings about what was happening. I’d give them an A+ for executing the crappy task they were given without escalating.

+1. I watched this waiting to see the company eff up royally and… they just didn’t. Brittney comes off looking silly. Also she shouldn’t have said “bullsh*t” - it made her look juvenile. The HR people were top notch here. I’d hire them, not her, for sure.

Those people did fine given what they had to work with but Brittany was right that it’s very bad practice to give her no adverse feedback and not have her manager on the call and not be able to articulate anything about her performance. It’s within the company’s rights but it’s also crappy.

If it's at will, don't give any feedback on performance because that could open the company to liability. Just, "I'm sorry but I have some bad news, we have to let you go. byeeeeee!"

Yes and no.

Sounds like they have a clear metric and documentation to justify cutting her loose. By her own admission, she hadn’t closed any deals/made any sales.

[Anonymous]

So a couple of things.

One, I'm not sure why this needs to be generational warfare episode 6,323,534,231. This could be time for nuanced discussion about what companies owe us during firing/lay-offs but instead it's turned into "Hurdur zoomers suck Gen X great" when based on her LinkedIn, I don't even believe her to be a Zoomer. She looks like she's the last year of millennials.

Two, I totally get where she's coming from. Having been fired for "poor performance" six months in, after not a word of anything but "you're doing great," the entire time, yeah, I was pissed. Even when I filed for UI and the company said it was poor performance, I made a point to say "I was surprised they indicated poor performance, as this was not mentioned during my six month review a few weeks prior to being fired." I didn't fight back when being fired though because I could tell it was not a good fit and was already looking/interviewing elsewhere though. (And no, I did not think it was a bad fit because I was not able to meet expectations, I thought it was a bad fit because they were disorganized and told me they could no longer afford to reimburse me for meals on work-related trips.)

Three, I wouldn't have recorded this because at the end of the day, the decision was made and the paperwork was already signed but whoever said above that they hope she gets busted for federal wiretapping charges...you're dumber than the two HR drones handling this call. Calm down, Gladys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pro tip: everyone should remember you are an at-will employee who can be let go at any time for practically any reason.

Freaking out on strangers from HR won’t change the outcome.

Re: taping it - many jurisdictions have laws against taping people without consent.

A federal wiretapping charge, that will help make her marketable.

Most states only require one-party consent. I'm not sure where she lives, but this was probably a legal recording.

She's in Georgia, a one-party state. The recording was fine.

But I'm a Boomer/Gen Xer who doesn't liiiiiiiike it!!!!! I want her life to be even more ruined by a federal wiretapping charge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geez, why do people do this? If you google her name, you now get like 1000 articles written about this video. Who's going to hire her when they see all of that?

Celebrity. Marry rich. Solid plan for a cute southern girl.

Everyone! She is a celeb

She is not a celebrity. She's been written about in some business-y articles about firing etiquette. This person wants her to be a celebrity so they can continue to complain about Zoomers wanting 15 minutes of fame, even though the concept of 15 minutes of fame has existed since their archaic boomer days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Zoomers are the whiniest excuse makers I’ve ever experienced. Nothing is ever their fault; it’s always something else: ADHD, climate change, anxiety, my cat died, etc. Take your pick.

Wow… this post reflects a level of confusion that I’d never want on my team. Conflating ADHD (a medical condition measurable by imaging) with anxiety (a mental health issue that affects like 40% of Americans and negatively impacts productivity) with climate change (an ongoing catastrophe that is currently causing mega extinction and which corporate risk managers are neck deep in actively dealing with) seems shockingly muddleheaded.

Also weird because Brittany Pietsch made no mention of any of those things? Typical garbled ramblings of a Boomer whose mind is rotted from Fox News.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So a couple of things.

One, I'm not sure why this needs to be generational warfare episode 6,323,534,231. This could be time for nuanced discussion about what companies owe us during firing/lay-offs but instead it's turned into "Hurdur zoomers suck Gen X great" when based on her LinkedIn, I don't even believe her to be a Zoomer. She looks like she's the last year of millennials.

Two, I totally get where she's coming from. Having been fired for "poor performance" six months in, after not a word of anything but "you're doing great," the entire time, yeah, I was pissed. Even when I filed for UI and the company said it was poor performance, I made a point to say "I was surprised they indicated poor performance, as this was not mentioned during my six month review a few weeks prior to being fired." I didn't fight back when being fired though because I could tell it was not a good fit and was already looking/interviewing elsewhere though. (And no, I did not think it was a bad fit because I was not able to meet expectations, I thought it was a bad fit because they were disorganized and told me they could no longer afford to reimburse me for meals on work-related trips.)

Three, I wouldn't have recorded this because at the end of the day, the decision was made and the paperwork was already signed but whoever said above that they hope she gets busted for federal wiretapping charges...you're dumber than the two HR drones handling this call. Calm down, Gladys.

Whatever generation, this sneaky recording and public posting is just shady. There is nothing illegal or immoral here, so I could give a pass on recording in case she caught a “me too” type violation, but these were two people doing their job, they didn’t make these decisions I’m sure. So the posting was in bad form.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pro tip: everyone should remember you are an at-will employee who can be let go at any time for practically any reason.

Freaking out on strangers from HR won’t change the outcome.

Re: taping it - many jurisdictions have laws against taping people without consent.

A federal wiretapping charge, that will help make her marketable.

Most states only require one-party consent. I'm not sure where she lives, but this was probably a legal recording.

She's in Georgia, a one-party state. The recording was fine.

But I'm a Boomer/Gen Xer who doesn't liiiiiiiike it!!!!! I want her life to be even more ruined by a federal wiretapping charge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These generations don’t whine or overuse exclamation points. They do believe in consequences for behavior if that’s what your sarcastic response implies.