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EntertainHR: Helping Haverford – What Parks and Recreation Teaches Us About Employee Terminations

By Jake Koch, Fordharrison Aug 21, 2024 EntertainHR

Updated: Aug 21, 2024

Parks and Recreation is a beloved mockumentary sitcom that focuses on the lives of several employees of the fictional Pawnee, Indiana’s Parks and Recreation Department. One of those characters is the sarcastic and entrepreneurial Tom Haverford, played by Aziz Ansari. Throughout the series, Tom embarks on several business ventures. One of his business ventures, Rent-A-Swag, […]

How to Avoid a PR Nightmare: Lessons Learned from CloudFlare’s Viral Firing of Tech Worker

By Joyce Dos Santos; Attorney; Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete Mar 11, 2024 Learning & Development

Updated: Mar 11, 2024

Brittany Pietsch, a former account executive at Cloudflare, recently gained viral attention by sharing a nine-minute video of her termination on TikTok. Anticipating the termination after her colleague’s dismissal half an hour earlier, Pietsch titled the video, POV: You’re about to get laid off. Enjoy the trauma! 🙂 In the video, two company representatives who […]