She did really well and it exposed Cloudflare for its crappy people management, but the sad truth is that this is precisely how layoffs always go. Rightfully, the employee is seeking answers, but many times the answer isn’t one they want to hear and HR will never divulge it anyhow. The line of messaging from HR was boilerplate and locked down to keep the unpleasantries of the process from being known. Eventually the employee understands she has no options and they move on to next steps. She defended herself well and made those two people feel like cocks for the way they did it, but it makes no difference at the end of the day.
She did really well and it exposed Cloudflare for its crappy people management, but the sad truth is that this is precisely how layoffs always go. Rightfully, the employee is seeking answers, but many times the answer isn’t one they want to hear and HR will never divulge it anyhow. The line of messaging from HR was boilerplate and locked down to keep the unpleasantries of the process from being known. Eventually the employee understands she has no options and they move on to next steps. She defended herself well and made those two people feel like cocks for the way they did it, but it makes no difference at the end of the day.