“The video is painful for me to watch, Managers should always be involved. HR should be involved, but it shouldn’t be outsourced to them,” he wrote. “No employee should ever actually be surprised they weren’t performing. We don’t always get it right. And sometimes under performing employees don’t actually listen to the feedback they’ve gotten before we let them go. Importantly, just because we fire someone doesn’t mean they’re a bad employee."

Up in the Air was dystopian in 2009 but totally normal now: people you've never met popping up on a laptop from a thousand miles away telling you "there's nothing I can say that will help" while pretending to care. HR is vile.

The direct manager was likely fired too. It’s a sad truth that this is how the world works.

As sympathetic as this girl may be, she’s also probably harmed her future career prospects with this stunt. Best case she’s corporate Curt Floyd.

The direct manager was likely fired too. It’s a sad truth that this is how the world works.

As sympathetic as this girl may be, she’s also probably harmed her future career prospects with this stunt. Best case she’s corporate Curt Floyd.

The direct manager was likely fired too. It’s a sad truth that this is how the world works.

As sympathetic as this girl may be, she’s also probably harmed her future career prospects with this stunt. Best case she’s corporate Curt Floyd.

ehh...I've burned some bridges. Not the end of the world.

Flood???

How does a salesperson not know they aren't performing? It's like the easiest job to track.

Because she said she was told otherwise. Now she knows the world gives zero fucks, which is a good lesson.

Because she said she was told otherwise. Now she knows the world gives zero fucks, which is a good lesson.

If I were in sales, I'm pretty sure I'd conclude that making sales is an important part of my job.

If I were in sales, I'm pretty sure I'd conclude that making sales is an important part of my job.

How does a salesperson not know they aren't performing? It's like the easiest job to track.

If I were in sales, I'm pretty sure I'd conclude that making sales is an important part of my job.

Pretty sure neolib Brick is the HR guy that fired this lady

Sure, and if I were hiring some super expensive nuclear closer with a track record of success I'd expect immediate results, but this is a young woman who they apparently shitcanned after just a few months without letting her build a book of business.

The HR guy sounded like the consultant who fired me from my own company because there was a new "para-dijum." I guess he didn't know who brought in the money that was paying his fee. One of the more satisfying moments of my life was when all the payroll checks bounced the week after I left.

Fuck George S. May Company!

I come from the Jack Welch style of business where you fire the bottom 10% every year and make sure the bottom 1% never work again and end up homeless on the street to maximize shareholder value.

Don't entry-level sales people get fired en masse all the time? As a rule, only the top performers are kept after their 3-month probationary period. This happened to a bunch of people I know when they began sales careers years ago. It's a shitty system to be sure; I'm just surprised that there apparently sn't greater awareness of it.

She got hired and fired within six months without a PIP it sounds like. Not sure how that happens

Four months, from what it sounded like: three-month onramp and then a bad December. Everyone knows that whole month is just "call me after the holidays [click]."

In my experience it's normally pretty hard to fire someone that soon without progressive discipline, but if it's a "reduction in force," anything goes.