If the story is accurate, then what's the point of exposing the poor sod's name?
What purpose does that serve? The guy's obviously had a rough week; why pile on and make it worse?
It's likely that he's going to be terminated (from his employment, not physically), if he hasn't been already. I'm sure there's some "handling company materials" guideline or somesuch on the books at Apple that will be enforced.
Granted he's had a bad week, but it's also generated a reasonable degree of sympathy for the guy. I'd be surprised if Apple would want to court the bad publicity it would bring by firing the guy.
Make a mistake at Apple? Get fired? Doesn't come over well, especially when the public can now put a name and a face to him.
An anonymous engineer would have been easy to let go. This might just have saved his bacon.
Anywhere else, perhaps. I'm not so sure with Apple. Between the RDF and the teflon nature of Apple, they might just decide they can get away with anything short of holding a public execution. They might even be right.
I was thinking, while reading the Google story about China today, that Google (or Microsoft, that would be scary!) might decide to create their own country.
I'm sure they're be immediately crushed by a third-world military, because purchasing the weapons they'd need to defend themselves would not be possible immediately, but I liked the little story my brain gave me.:) (I promise to reward you with alcohol. Well, in fact, that might have been the source of the story! "Alcohol, the cause of, and solution
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What's the point? (Score:5, Insightful)
You know, I find that completely over-the-top.
If the story is accurate, then what's the point of exposing the poor sod's name?
What purpose does that serve? The guy's obviously had a rough week; why pile on and make it worse?
It's likely that he's going to be terminated (from his employment, not physically), if he hasn't been already. I'm sure there's some "handling company materials" guideline or somesuch on the books at Apple that will be enforced.
So why expose him publicly?
I don't get it. This just seem
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Make a mistake at Apple? Get fired? Doesn't come over well, especially when the public can now put a name and a face to him.
An anonymous engineer would have been easy to let go. This might just have saved his bacon.
Re:What's the point? (Score:3, Interesting)
Anywhere else, perhaps. I'm not so sure with Apple. Between the RDF and the teflon nature of Apple, they might just decide they can get away with anything short of holding a public execution. They might even be right.
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I was thinking, while reading the Google story about China today, that Google (or Microsoft, that would be scary!) might decide to create their own country.
I'm sure they're be immediately crushed by a third-world military, because purchasing the weapons they'd need to defend themselves would not be possible immediately, but I liked the little story my brain gave me. :) (I promise to reward you with alcohol. Well, in fact, that might have been the source of the story! "Alcohol, the cause of, and solution