Anonymous wrote:You guys are out of touch. The companies suck when they just hire and fire, or let go people without their managers involved. It is artificial austerity to keep the labor force obedient.

Google let go some high performers in the last 2 rounds and their immediate managers did not even know. It was insulting. For what? Just to show you that you are not safe.

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why she's being hailed as some folk hero when she was terminated for performance. And in which states were the company reps and Brittany located? I hope someone gets her for an illegal recording.

Anonymous wrote:They are firing her with cause for not closing sales so they have a basis to contest if she files for unemployment. If they admit it’s a RIF, the company would be on the hook.

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Anonymous wrote:A Coudflare employee recorded herself being laid off (remotely, apparently by a pair of consultants (not named Bob)) and it’s garnering a lot of views.

I can understand her frustration at having to endure the droning, corporate-speak of these two people she’s never met who are tasked with delivering the bad new, but at the end of the day, she’s a whining zoomer who didn’t make any sales.

Nah, I love this generation. They are calling out my generation and older on bullsheet practices that wreck peoples lives. Good for her and I hope she finds an employer that values her and her work ethic. Not everyone wants to be crotchety and old like you, OP, standing by the water cooler, eating your stale homemade sandwich with mayonnaise oozing out of the creases of your mouth, telling boring stories about what you did on the weekend and then watching the clock so you can take an unnecessary two hour commute home and then do it all over again the next day. It's a new day and I'm here for it!

Anonymous wrote:Sales is luck. When I walk into a car dealership or an appliance store, or some other commission based business, and I’m not looking to buy, no salesperson, no matter how savvy and experienced, will change my mind. When I am looking to buy, the first salesperson to approach me will most likely get the sale, but that’s because he or she was lucky, not because they were a good salesperson.

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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.

Right. They said it was performance based, and that’s what she was arguing with. If they’d just they were reducing force, no one can argue with that.

But the CEO didn’t want to admit he’d over hired for a product with an 8 month sales time.

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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A Coudflare employee recorded herself being laid off (remotely, apparently by a pair of consultants (not named Bob)) and it’s garnering a lot of views.

I can understand her frustration at having to endure the droning, corporate-speak of these two people she’s never met who are tasked with delivering the bad new, but at the end of the day, she’s a whining zoomer who didn’t make any sales.

Nah, I love this generation. They are calling out my generation and older on bullsheet practices that wreck peoples lives. Good for her and I hope she finds an employer that values her and her work ethic. Not everyone wants to be crotchety and old like you, OP, standing by the water cooler, eating your stale homemade sandwich with mayonnaise oozing out of the creases of your mouth, telling boring stories about what you did on the weekend and then watching the clock so you can take an unnecessary two hour commute home and then do it all over again the next day. It's a new day and I'm here for it!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sales is luck. When I walk into a car dealership or an appliance store, or some other commission based business, and I’m not looking to buy, no salesperson, no matter how savvy and experienced, will change my mind. When I am looking to buy, the first salesperson to approach me will most likely get the sale, but that’s because he or she was lucky, not because they were a good salesperson.

This is moronic. The salesperson plays a huge role in whether a customer leaves with a product or visits another retailer, especially in car sales. Skilled salespeople also get customers to purchase add-ons with enormous margin such as extended warranties.

Also this person was in B2B sales, which is very different.

Spoken like a true salesman.

You know what’s moronic? Impulse buying a Dodge Charger and being talked into a bunch of upcharges. Granted, there are people around who fall for this, but I’m not one of them.