Cloudflare CEO responds to viral termination video

This is a great response — accepting that it was handled poorly, reinforcing that this was purely about the person/role fit rather than the person, noting that layoffs in general are business as usual, and committing to do better. Nicely done, @eastdakota.

Re: Cloudflare CEO responds to viral termination video

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Post by toomuchtodo » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 3:50 PM UTC

CharlesW wrote: post #5

This is a great response — accepting that it was handled poorly, reinforcing that this was purely about the person/role fit rather than the person, noting that layoffs in general are business as usual, and committing to do better. Nicely done, @eastdakota .

> and committing to do better. Nicely done, @eastdakota

It's only nicely done if they follow through. Tweets are cheap, action is work.

Re: Cloudflare CEO responds to viral termination video

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Post by Zetobal » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 3:51 PM UTC

superhumanuser wrote: post #3

epolanski wrote: post #2

What was the viral termination video?

Scroll to the top up the Tweet or click here: https://twitter.com/SMB_Attorney/status/1745609324544536778

Oof... in all regards absolutely abysmal. That not only hurts that's systemic failure and I'll take the response with a grain of salt now. If something like this happens in your organisation you just plain suck at management. You can read it between the lines that he really believes stomping his foot one time will fix it as he thought before that such a thing wasn't possible in his org. It's management blindness the whole org talks about it but the ceo never hears of it because the yes man are busy laughing at his bad jokes.

Re: Cloudflare CEO responds to viral termination video

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Post by nine_zeros » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 3:58 PM UTC

If employees were to do ruthless "business as usual", people would join a company, not work much, jump ship to another within a few months. Wasting everyone's time, energy and money. How does that sound?

Re: Cloudflare CEO responds to viral termination video

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Post by jerf » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 4:00 PM UTC

nine_zeros wrote: post #8

If employees were to do ruthless "business as usual", people would join a company, not work much, jump ship to another within a few months. Wasting everyone's time, energy and money. How does that sound?

You speak as if this is a hypothetical thing that literally no employee is doing? What it sounds like to me is how a certain segment of the employee population is already behaving, so you hardly need to hypothesize about how it sounds when you can just consult reality.

Re: Cloudflare CEO responds to viral termination video

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Post by SpicyLemonZest » Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 4:03 PM UTC

Zetobal wrote: post #7

superhumanuser wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scroll to the top up the Tweet or click here: https://twitter.com/SMB_Attorney/status/1745609324544536778

Oof... in all regards absolutely abysmal. That not only hurts that's systemic failure and I'll take the response with a grain of salt now. If something like this happens in your organisation you just plain suck at management. You can read it between the lines that he really believes stomping his foot one time will fix it as he thought before that such a thing wasn't possible in his org. It's management blindness the…

I’m not sure why you assume he should have known or a good manager would have known. If you made a list from scratch of the most important things for the Cloudflare CEO to keep track of, would the HR script in layoff calls even make the top 100?

I‘ve also seen bigger things than this change with one stomp of a CEO’s foot.