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She's asking for an explanation that they can't give her, and also trying to use some bizarre appeal to emotion by mentioning "trauma" and how much this will upset her life.



> She's asking for an explanation that they can't give her

True - and instead of admitting that, they hemhaw about how her performance was bad.

Agree the appeal to emotion isn't really helping, but on balance it's Cloudflare that looks bad here.


It was her performance, but she didn’t agree


They literally reply that it was a higher level thing that had to do with her team. So a layoff. The initial text seemed like filler.


Well, a layoff has a different impact than being fired.

They talk about the performance of her and her peers.

In any case, it’s not even a conversation. It’s a notice




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