There were significant challenges with onboarding, as well as not being utilise the tools I was given, for example not being able to remove leads that were not mine in Salesforce, and Outreach and Salesforce syncing incorrectly in that Outreach was being flooded with leads that were not mine that I also could not remove. In addition, I was unable to sign my Xactly contract due to a number of errors (and was told not able to start calling without the contract in place), and questions about commission in an email were left unanswered. Despite requesting that these things be fixed, they were ignored. I was also told to work from the office five days a week despite this not being required by other employees and the office having unpredictable temperatures that made me feel perimenopausal.
I was dismissed after I came out of hospital, and the reason for entering hospital was that violence directed towards me in the home I was staying in. I am a victim of violence because I accidentally left my life insurance papers at the home, which detailed my diagnoses. Had I been allocated a storage unit with a key at work, which were available in the office and I had asked many times for, this would not have happened. Post hospitalisation, I rang and said I didn't think I had any clothes suitable for work left. All my clothes in the home I was staying in were disposed of last Monday, as I was threatened with criminal charges if I picked them up. This means that I no longer have access to the company shirts I was wanting to return. As everyone knows, employees working at American companies require a clean criminal record.
I took the matter to Fair Work under general protections, as employers in Australia are not allowed to dismiss employees in their probation period for absence related to hospitalisation. During the conciliation, there was an Australian lawyer present as a support person with the relevant person silent throughout. There was also an American lawyer, who had not been made aware that I had been compensated post dismissal under a Proofpoint global scheme. I mentioned that I was a victim of violence, and that I was seeking the company to be fined, and that a sum of money donated to a charity for domestic violence survivors at risk of entering the criminal justice system, which was refused.
In addition to this, I mentioned that I had been ghosted for roles I applied for at other cybersecurity companies, and I would appreciate management speaking to the ANZ team as a whole to stop talking about me without my permission. This was refused. I was offered $2,000 to sign away my right to speak about this matter, and I declined. I thought about taking the matter to court, but I decided not to as I have other things to do, and instead post this review.
I feel sad, as it took a considerable amount of work on my part and others to attend interviews, visit employees at Cybercon 2025, arrange the precious time of my references to speak to Proofpoint and for us to do the necessary paperwork.
I would also like to raise that I communicated about an ableist comment made in a video by a presenter who stated that people with unmanaged ADHD would struggle with a high volume of alerts in their inbox. While a good quantity of people in IT and even tech are neurodivergent, including myself, overwhelm due to alerts is not limited to neurodivergent people. There were also racist undertones when talking about the English language capabilities of threat actors that was also unnecessary. Nothing was done about this.
