[https://x.com/eastdakota/status/1745697840180191501?s=20](https://x.com/eastdakota/status/1745697840180191501?s=20)
We fired \~40 sales people out of over 1,500 in our go to market org. That’s a normal quarter. When we’re doing performance management right, we can often tell within 3 months or less of a sales hire, even during the holidays, whether they’re going to be successful or not. Sadly, we don’t hire perfectly. We try to fire perfectly. In this case, clearly we were far from perfect. The video is painful for me to watch. Managers should always be involved. HR should be involved, but it shouldn’t be outsourced to them, No employee should ever actually be surprised they weren’t performing. We don’t always get it right. And sometimes under performing employees don’t actually listen to the feedback they’ve gotten before we let them go. **Importantly, just because we fire someone doesn’t mean they’re a bad employee. It doesn’t mean won’t be really, really great somewhere else. Chris Paul was a bad fit for the Suns, but he’s undoubtedly a great basketball playe**r. **And, in fact, we think the right thing to do is get people we know are unlikely to succeed off the team as quickly as possible so they can find the right place for them.** We definitely weren’t anywhere close to perfect in this case. But any healthy org needs to get the people who aren’t performing off. That wasn’t the mistake here. The mistake was not being more kind and humane as we did. And that’s something [@zatlyn](https://twitter.com/zatlyn) and I are focused on improving going forward.
by clayfu
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Didn’t they make the finals with Chris Paul?
He literally led them to a finals his first year there after missing the playoffs for 10+ years and this is still an argument.
Lmao this is incorrect and if he was consistently healthy he’s likely still a Sun
“i fired people, please treat me as a human, it’s a human thing to fire people, we are trying to be perfect, also fuck cp3”
the first year he played there they went to the NBA Finals.
You didn’t bold enough of it lol, the line immediately after is a lot more cutting
> And, in fact, we think the right thing to do is get people we know are unlikely to succeed off the team as quickly as possible so they can find the right place for them.
ouchie. very rude.
Have you guys seen the video he’s talking about? It is ghastly.
Should have said Chris Paul and the Rockets, he was great with the Suns (until the decline obv)
mid 30s chris paul carried those bums to the finals. try again matthew prince
Corporate is anti human
The thing is, he wasnt a bad fit for the Suns, he is just 38 years old and injury prone.
Matthew Prince don’t know ball
Look I’m a cp3 hater but he brought the suns back to relevancy, this is weird revisionism
> We fired ~40 sales people out of over 1,500 in our go to market org. That’s a normal quarter.
Is this a humblebrag? What a piece of shit
* of course the dickriding business students are downvoting me
equating getting fired from your job to getting traded to the wizards.
Now here’s somebody that doesn’t understand basketball
CP3 was literally the perfect fit last season because they needed a true point guard, he’s just injury prone and that season was the last straw
Cause now that the Suns got rid of CP3 they are doing great, right?
Suns were a 60+ win team with CP3 lol
Will Perdue just wasn’t working out for the Bulls
Crazy bc they went from missing the play in one year to being in the finals the next with the only additions being him and Jae crowder. Obv that was the year everyone got hurt, but they did go from missing the postseason entirely to being a 2 seed.
Getting rid of CP3 was the dumbest thing the Suns ever did. Now they don’t have anyone running the offense and keeping people disciplined.
Feel like everyone is ignoring the part where he says how great CP3 is and just focusing on the Suns part. It was a weird attempt to say just cause they don’t work here doesn’t mean they won’t be great somewhere else. (Even though CP3 was still good on the Suns…) he’s trying to not be disparaging towards the lady who put the video out… even though she handled the whole situation very poorly (understandable, being laid off sucks)
They looked a hell of a lot better with chris lol
Why do we care what the Co-Founder of Cloudflare(?) thinks about Chris Paul’s fit anywhere?
interesting considering he led them to the finals the first year he was here and the #1 seed the year after.
Just about every single team CP goes to underperforms.. or he gets injured.
This is r/nbacirclejerk porn
Every team CP3 joins improves. This is the first year that isn’t the case, but that isn’t even on him because he had that 2nd unit humming
He was not a bad fit. It just didn’t work out.
He revealed a lot about himself in this tweet. Including how little he knows about basketball
Weak jerking. He didn’t even mention that Luka Doncic is Devin Booker father.
I always love it when people in charge think that talking about something more will make it go away faster