“Do I still have work?” Webflow Technician Detects Possible Redundancy Via Locked Laptop: No Email, No Warning, Nothing | Today’s news

Mark Willis, who worked at Webflow for almost 8 years, found out he might be fired. However, he did not receive any email or message. A software engineer was simply logged out of his laptop.

A Webflow employee has gone viral after a deeply offensive LinkedIn post. Mark discovered that he could not access his company laptop. It happened at 7am on a normal weekday morning.

He did not receive any email. He received no message of any kind. He has not received any official communication from the company either.

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So he did what many people would consider unthinkable. He wrote about it directly on LinkedIn. He publicly tagged Webflow CEO Linda Tong in the post. He also tagged his own manager, Christopher Harrop.

“Hi Linda Tong, I’ve been locked out of my webflow laptop since 7:00 this morning. It says we’ve been fired, but I don’t have an email or any message confirming anything, and I actually said, ‘I don’t think Linda would fire people again without letting them know, especially if they’re on a closed work permit in a foreign country, and it would mean for sure she’d have to move her whole family. people know that. better, given the past debacle.’ Tell me that’s not true,” he wrote on LinkedIn.

“My manager, Christopher Harrop, any news? Do I have a job?” he added.

LinkedIn post by Mark Willis

He later claimed in the comments section that he was fired. One user asked: “Is this real?” Mark replied, “I wish it wasn’t, but it is. For real.”

Many other LinkedIn users, apparently Webflow employees, also claimed to have been terminated in a similar manner.

“Same Mark. Devastated,” wrote one.

“Same. Let’s connect everyone,” commented another.

The post quickly garnered nearly 2,000 reactions and over 230 comments. The internet reacted with a mixture of outrage, sympathy and dark humor.

LinkedIn is responding

The professional public did not hold back. Max Hofert, a longtime Webflow user, voiced his frustration. He is said to have been building on Webflow for eight years.

He described the platform’s recent decline as reaching “abysmal levels”. He cited client sites that went down for hours and days without warning. He also criticized the company’s focus on AI features that no one asked for.

Rachel Nelson, who manages multiple client accounts through Webflow, immediately canceled all of her renewals. She announced that she would spend the weekend migrating everything away from the platform. Her comment received 158 likes.

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Daniel Abrahams captured the mood sharply. He wrote that releasing emails is already the lowest acceptable standard. Dismissal with a locked laptop was a whole “new basement,” he said.

Rachel Murray noted that a company where employees must use LinkedIn to confirm their employment status has not shown wise leadership.

“This is bizarre and I apologize to all the people affected,” she wrote.

Reddit is responding

Reddit was just as unsparing. The paper quickly spread throughout the professional and technological communities. One top commentator noted that they were already prepared to go public if faced with a similar situation.

“I’m considering posting on LinkedIn if I get fired/fired. Which unfortunately seems more and more likely,” the user wrote.

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Another pointed out that some employment contracts prohibit public statements about the company for two years after a breakup. Several users commented that US employment laws would be completely confusing to workers from other countries.

“In developed countries you are employed until you receive a formal notice of termination,” wrote one user.

One commenter simply said, “These companies are getting more and more clumsy and unprofessional.”