A woman recently filmed her own firing and put it up on TikTok, causing a bit of an uproar. Brittany Pietsch was let go from her job at US tech giant Cloudflare and the video she shared showed how frustrated she was.
Her clip quickly became popular, with over 1.5 million people watching in just a few days. Cloudflare's CEO, Matthew Prince, saw the video too and expressed his disapproval on X (Twitter).
Prince mentioned: "The video is painful for me to watch. Managers should always be involved. HR should be involved, but it shouldn't be outsourced to them. No employee should ever actually be surprised they weren't performing."
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In an interview, Pietsch talked more about what happened before she lost her job. She stated: "All day my peers started receiving 10-minute meetings from a random director outside of our organisation. A close coworker friend of mine received the invite 30 minutes before me. After her meeting, she called me in tears and said they let her go but could not give any reasons why and blamed her performance yet could not say what that performance was."
Pietsch talked about how scary it was when she lost her job, saying: "That was about 10 minutes before my scheduled call. I called my dad in a panic asking for his advice on what I should do. He told me to stay calm, strong, and understand why. Anxiety was consuming me as the call started."
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During her meeting, Pietsch said the boss didn't even introduce himself and just read from a script. She wanted to know the real reason she was being fired.
She shared: "I wasn't going to (for lack of a more eloquent phrase) bend over and take it from this corporate bulls***. My objective was not to keep my job, my objective was to get them to exactly tell me why I was being let go. They admitted to not ever speaking to my direct manager about my performance - so it was confirmed for me then that this was 100 percent a mass layoff they were trying to disguise as a lack of performance."
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People on TikTok backed her up, with one person saying: "Take them to court, they cannot fire you without reason. You should be a lawyer! Very well spoken."
Someone else added: "HR pro here. Let me just say that it is HR's JOB to have all of the details to explain why this happened if it is truly performance-related." Another person wrote: "I don't know how HR people live with themselves,"
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