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> Why do they say the person is being let go for poor performance? Does that benefit the company somehow?

Yeah, seriously. Are they just being complete dicks for no reason? Only alternative is they want to deprive her of Unemployment or something, making them even worse people. I couldn't even watch the whole thing. I thought they were doing layoffs anyway. Why needlessly bully some new hire on top of that?

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Generally in the US, you don’t get unemployment if you are fired for cause.

Cloudfare is trying to make it seems like it’s termination for cause instead of a layoff.

Which is silly, you have to declare layoffs in advance anyone fired during the let go period should automatically be be fired without cause. The perverse incentives to just dig up dirt on random employees to find cause and save on unemployment insurance is can't be some unknown thing.

In a lot of countries there are laws around laying people off.

Someone new is generally in a probation period and if you want a quick/cheap way to get rid of them then - poor performance - probation failed.

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