> Many employees say they see the keeper test as a guise for ordinary workplace politics while some managers say they feel pressure to fire people or risk looking soft. Postmortem emails and meetings explaining why people got fired are viewed by some employees as awkward and theatrical when the audiences can be dozens or even hundreds of people.

So every employee gets to be badmouthed in front of as many as hundreds of former co-workers, as Netflix's special parting gift?

What a treat!

> Richard Siklos, a Netflix spokesman, said the company only fires employees for performance reasons

So Netflix is actively propagating the obvious myth that all terminations are due to poor performance. Not because the nature of the project / technology changed, not because the chemistry between the fired person and key players like his supervisor has unfortunately gone south... No, it is always poor performance.

Good luck getting your next job!

And to help you on your way out, we'll make sure every single one of your former co-worker hears your former supervisor talking trash about you in very blunt terms.

You know, just to make it easier for these same co-workers to provide references to your prospective next employers.

Have we said good luck already...?

(Netflix employees, why do you accept this?)