Tech company situation: Got a welcome gift, but got fired three days later

Brittany Yeh lives in San Francisco, California, and until a few months ago was a Marketing Manager at Lyft, a mobility technology company. A few days ago, she shared a video on your tiktok account which caused a stir and went viral.

the woman was dismissed three days after receiving your company welcome packin a situation that is added to the personnel cuts that are being implemented these days by various technology companies such as Twitter, Amazon Y Goal.

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The young woman, according to what she recounted in her video, was part of the mass layoffs made by Lyft, the technology company he joined in March of this year. What The New York Times advanced this week, the firm made the decision to fire the “13% of its employees, about 650 of its 5,000 workers.”

In a first recording shared on October 31, Brittany described that started at that job a few months ago, but that just now they had just sent him his package. Apparently, the company did not have the complete items that went into the gift, so delivery was delayed.

in a classic unboxing showed the items that were inside the box that arrived at his house: a gray T-shirt with a pink print, a ceramic thermal glass, a notebook to make notes, a pen and various stickers related to the brand. All of the above with the company logo, of course. However, the excitement over the gift was short-lived.

@brittanyyeh the start of my lyft merch collection #techtok #techgirlie #remotejobs #workfromhome #worklife #techtoktips #techjobs ♬ Aesthetic Girl – Yusei

In fact, shortly after that video, the young woman shared a new clip in which an unbelievable news was read: “Posting my welcome pack for my tech job only to be fired 3 days later”wrote.

That was not the outcome of his story, on November 7 he shared one more recording in which he thanked the love and support received after going viral. Despite the bittersweet moment that she lived through, Brittany He assured that they were very beautiful days and that he actually wished the best to the colleagues he met.

Nor did she blame the company for firing her, instead she was sympathetic to the economic situation in the United States.

Finally, He stressed that “he only has love” for Lyft: “Obviously, while it’s a bummer, I don’t take it personally. I totally get it. We’re going into a recession, and at the end of the day, if they can’t keep a certain number of employees, they just have to fire us.”

What about the tech industry?

Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, California, USA. (Nic Coury/)

In accordance with NYTthe slowdown in the tech industry worsened when Amazon publicly said it had halted hiring, while other companies announced cutbacks.

Senior executives at the digital commerce giant made the decision because the economy was “in an uncertain place.”. At the same time, Lyft announced its layoffs, while Stripe, a payment platform, said it would cut 14% of its staff, which is 1,100 jobs.

Other companies involved are Twitter, since Elon Musk took over as CEO, Microsoft and Meta, by Mark Zuckerberg. In the analysis of the aforementioned medium, technology companies have led the way in the US economy for decades, but in recent weeks the largest firms have reported lower-than-expected results, surely a product of the global economic crisis, inflation and rising interest rates.

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Source: Elcomercio