I don’t work for a MegaCorp either. I can empathize and do relate, and I would have felt sorry for her, but she acted horrible. Can you not see what she did was unreasaonable and makes her look foolish? Like she is the first person to ever be fired by a MegaCorp? She just gave them reason to blast the real reason she got fired…never closed a deal, didn’t go into the office, etc etc.

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See above.

See above as well.

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Woof. You made good progress but fell back to sucking off the suits.

Didn’t suck off the suits. They made their lives and got into a position to make tens of millions running a company. Good for them. Nothing wrong with it, just cause you don’t like it.

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I generally agree. However, if enough people put these shitty companies on blast things may start to change.

It won’t change anything. MegaCorps have been around a long time and for good reason. Blasting them won’t hurt anything in the IT space when they have a market leading offering. CISO at FedEx doesn’t give 2 shita about how Brittany got fired or that she blasted her prior employer. He cares about securing his environment.

Also, you have any clue how she really behaved at work? Any idea about her REAL relationship with her manager? Maybe she never called in, ignored meetings with him, and didn’t have SFDC up to date. Maybe he didn’t give a shite about that employee and felt like never seeing her again cause she took advantage of the company….you ever empathize with an employer that paid out all that money to someone that didn’t generate Jack shite? Also, the company lost 6+ months of not having a producer in the role, imagine the revenue lost there too.

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Posted on 1/15/24 at 10:11 pm to IT_Dawg

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I work in the space as well. I actually worked at this company and left a few months ago because I saw where this shite was heading. Been reading through the comments and it's refreshing to see someone else who actually understands the goings on. Things like:

1 At any SaaS company if you go more than a quarter without closing a deal you should feel wildly under the gun.

2 The executives don't give a shite about the salespeople and the salespeople don't give a shite about the executives or the company. Both sides take maximum advantage of each other for as long as it's mutually beneficial for both sides, and as soon as it's not the relationship ends.

3 At a company the size of Cloudflare and above you truly are just a number on a spreadsheet.

4 We were a remote workforce. She would have never once gone into the office and probably never met her manager in person. The way they were firing the manager might have already been fired as well which is why someone else was subbing in and why let go via Zoom.

5 Cloudflare needed to drastically reduce its sales team to reorganize. They did this by ranking everyone by attainment, knowing how many people they needed to cut, and then let everyone go under a certain % to meet that number. That's why "performance" was cited as even though she would have been given some leeway under regular circumstances (and more warning and coaching) since they were doing a mass cut she became a casualty.

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