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Cloudflare's PR Disaster Hurts Managers

It seems to be happening regularly, particularly as layoffs increase in the tech sector, but organizations continue to bungle this process and leave a mess. One recent example is the viral video of the woman getting fired by Cloudflare. If you aren’t familiar with the story, you can read about it here.

There are a ton of thoughts on this event – everything from should she have recorded it to how it was done. I want to focus on two things that I think were particularly troublesome: The reasoning of performance and the fact her manager wasn’t part of the conversation.