Suzie Cheikho: Woman fired for not typing enough while working from home shares bot TikTok post for her trolls
Suzie Cheikho: Woman fired for not typing enough while working from home shares bot TikTok post for her trolls
- Fired woman posts rebellious TikTok video
- Suzie Cheikho has been fired for lack of typing at home
- Now resort to TikTok battles to earn money
A woman who was fired for not typing enough while working from home shared a blunt post when she hit back at online trolls.
Suzie Cheikho, 38, was fired as a consultant to Insurance Australia Group in February when bosses checked her keystrokes and found she was only typing about 10 words per hour between October and December last year.
Ms Cheikho appealed unfair dismissal to the Fair Work Commission but lost her case in July, ending her 18-year tenure with the insurer.
The case has made Ms. Cheikho a magnet for media and online attention, mostly unfavorable, but in a defiant TikTok and Instagram video posted on Saturday, she stated that everyone who watched her were truly “fans.”
“This is a message for all the haters out there,” says the post’s voiceover, while displaying a montage of news articles and TV reports featuring Ms. Cheikho.
Suzie Cheikho has become the subject of unwanted media and social media attention since it was revealed that she was fired by her employer for not typing enough while working from home
“If you don’t like what I do, but you watch everything I do, you’re still a fan.”
In her accompanying caption, Ms. Cheikho urged her followers to “stand up for what you believe in.”
‘Always stay true to yourself even when the odds are not in your favor, opinions don’t pay my bills.’
She concluded her post with hashtags: #bullying awareness #bully #harrassmentwillnotbetolerated #viral #suziecheikho #fyp.
Ms. Cheikho revealed that she had been able to support herself through TikTok while looking for work elsewhere.
“I make a small percentage of my money from TikTok – just enough to cover my bills,” she previously told Daily Mail Australia.
“It’s all about my mental health, you see – I’m an advocate for the mental health issues I’ve suffered – so I’m sensitizing by talking about it on ‘lives.'”
After her story made headlines, Ms. Cheikho posted a video on her social media complaining about the feedback she received.
“I am literally harassed through Facebook, Linked-In, TikTok,” she said.
‘What do you want me to do? I can’t get a job.’
One of those online critics was recruiter Alexandar Lyons Solutions, who accused Ms. Cheikho of being the type of employee who gives remote work a “bad name”.
“Suzie Cheikho was fired for not doing her job,” they wrote in a TikTok post about the matter.
Ms Cheikho says the publicity of her layoff has left her ‘unemployed’ and she is turning to social media to earn some extra cash
“This is the kind of employee who gives the wrong impression when it comes to remote work.”
Ms Cheikho said on Wednesday that the unfavorable publicity surrounding her dismissal has left her ‘unemployed’, but she found a way to use her newfound fame to make ends meet now that she is receiving Centrelink payments.
After growing her TikTok followers to nearly 10,000 followers, she will participate in a “TikTok battle” with another so-called micro-influencer on Monday at 7 p.m.
During such live-streamed battles, TikTokers can receive virtual “gifts” from followers that can be converted into money.
In their submission to the Fair Work Commission, IAG said there were ‘significant periods of no or minimal keyboard activity’ while Ms Cheikho was working from her home in Sydney.
Her log-in times showed that she had not worked 7.8 hours 44 of the 49 working days while part of the insurers’ communications team.
IAG alleged that Ms. Cheikho’s failure to work “during her established working hours” and her “missing deadlines and ineffective communication” put additional pressure on her colleagues and contributed to the company being fined by a regulator.
The tribunal ruled that the company had “valid cause” for firing Ms Cheikho.