CEO responds to 'painful' video of employee who went viral after being fired

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But getting fired by someone other than her manager is completely shite policy by her former employer.

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This is 100% the standard in most industries. HR is supposed to be trained to ensure they don’t say anything that can hurt the company, and this one did a poor job. It’s usually cleaner if you have the HR person handle all of the talking in a meeting like this.

I’ve always done it with HR in the room (of course), but I do most of the speaking. If I’m going to fire someone, I really need to look them in the eye and say it.

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It’s usually cleaner if you have the HR person handle all of the talking in a meeting like this.

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While it may be "standard," it doesn't mean that it is the right thing to do.

I can say that I have worked for some very large companies, and I've always let go of people myself. I had HR assist me, if needed, but it was my call to make, because I hired that person, coached that person, celebrated with that person, disciplined that person, and ultimately fired that person. I was the person leading the effort.

Every person I have ever let go had a good idea of what was coming, because I was very transparent with them along the way.

A person whom the former employee never met handling the termination is completely disrespectful to that person.

She’s learned a very valuable lesson at a fairly young age and time in her career.

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The ole “circle back” phrase was dropped in the conversation.

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She handled herself well by asking, "If now is not the right time to tell before I get fired, it won't be the right time after I am let go" --- or something very similar to that effect.

You can tell the HR people have done this many times before, and didn't get any push back. They went into this laissez-faire, and she at least called out their company's bullshite policy on how they terminate people. The HR team was not prepared for any specifics, instead they recite canned verbiage and I get why --- but when terminating, hard facts should have been presented --- you were performing at xyz vs. a company average metric of xyz, etc.

Sounds like they were working remote. Would it have been better to go into the office to get fired? Would have bitched about that.

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I can say that I have worked for some very large companies, and I've always let go of people myself. I had HR assist me, if needed, but it was my call to make, because I hired that person, coached that person, celebrated with that person, disciplined that person, and ultimately fired that person. I was the person leading the effort.

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you seem to be a vv good leader of ppl. that is becoming more and more rare these days.

I sure hope this young lady doesn't latch on to any type of victim card - even though she should've been let go by her direct mgr imho.

I hope she takes this experience and learns/grows from it and becomes an even better person/employee for the next company she works for. It could end up being a valuable life lesson for her.

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WuShock

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Why are you bootlicking for MegaCorp, Inc?

You arse will get the boot too. Lmao.

Welcome to a large company.

And if she didnt want to be fired, maybe she should try not being in the bottom 40 out of 1500.

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HR is useless and just mindless drones for the suits.

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Yup, HR works for the organization. They dont work for the employee.