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Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her (ody.sh)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I can’t give more approval for this woman, she handled everything so well.

The backstory is that Cloudflare overhired and wanted to reduce headcount, rightsize, whatever terrible HR wording you choose. Instead of admitting that this was a layoff, which would grant her things like severance and unemployment - they tried to tell her that her performance was lacking.

And for most of us (myself included) we would angrily accept it and trash the company online. Not her, she goes directly against them. It of course doesn’t go anywhere because HR is a bunch of robots with no emotions that just parrot what papa company tells them to, but she still says what all of us wish we did.

(Warning, if you've ever been laid off this is a bit enraging and can bring up some feelings)

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 10 months ago (3 children)

HR is IT for people. Do you think the IT guy cares about all the laptops in the company? No, it's a resource he manages. Do you think HR cares about all the people in the company. No it's a resource they manage. Companies try so hard to make HR look like high school guidance counselors instead of the ruthless hatchet men they are.

[–] [email protected] 178 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It guy here, I care more about the computers and tech than HR cares about people. Fuck HR

[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know I feel empathy towards computers that are broken that I can't help anymore

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

When they won't even boot into a Linux USB drive, make funeral preparations. Pack the dead body in a box and ship it to the hazmat recycling facility in the sky.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I know right? Old piece of hardware getting retired? It gets new life if I have something for it to do. I'm looking at my Brother HL-5170DN from 2006 that got tossed because the 2nd tray kept jamming. Guess who doesn't need a 2nd tray and loves this printer?

My first home server was a decommissioned small business server. Was a file server for a long time until the hard drives started to go.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Yuuuuuuuuuup. I always try to repurpose first instead of tossing. Even tossing for tech is a donation first if I can.

Only thing I don't love is a case I've had forever is an old enough ATX design that I can't easily fit all the new things in it. I'd love to repurpose it for a desktop for her but I don't think I'm going to love building things in it if I do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yall IT guys are daisys thinking HR wouldn't stop at owning slaves and put retired employees to work at home

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh you the new computer guy? Hey can you help me with the printer?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Have you turned it off and on again?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At least 3 times?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I see and what's your error message precisely

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

ticket auto closes due to age User receives an email, thank you for your time. Please contact us again if you have any other questions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I did but there is a power outage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Reestablish power to your office then try again

[–] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago (3 children)

IT guy here... Uh, no. I resent that you would group us with HR.

At my work I keep advocating to give our underperforming hardware (aka old hardware) a second life by opening up sales for them instead of destroying them (except hard drives of course).

When my laptop was acting up and was kind of crappy... I replace the thermal paste and replaced the old failing hard drive with a new SSD. At laptop is now 14 years old (Intel i5-540).

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

scribbles or notepad furiously

Lobotomize..... Ex..... Co-workers.....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

thanks for replacing the thermal paste, I’m POSTing now, but i’m still having trouble with (issue i’ve been told to open a ticket for but am refusing to do). can you fix that please

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Attaboy

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago

I care about the laptops. I care about them a lot. People return them in a shit state, I clean them up take care of them and then advocate to donate them to schools in the area.

HR are just that, hatchet men.