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Apple Fires Five Employees for Downloading Leopard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the never-tell-on-yourself dept.

BuzzardsBay writes "The good folks at VARBusiness are quoting a ThinkSecret report that claims five Apple employees got canned over the unauthorized downloading of the Leopard OS. According to the article: one of the employees says: "Because we had the character to tell the truth and to face the consequences of our actions, we were terminated. If we all lied and denied it would we still be working at Apple today? Even more so, is that the kind of person that Apple wants working for them?""

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  1. Fired for stupidity? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I would hope that any company (even Apple) would fire anyone stupid enough to download a sucky OS like Mac OS X.

  2. Think Different? by erroneus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What *IS* it with Apple people!? And I don't speak merely of users of Apple, but I'm beginning to think ALL people involved in their seemingly exclusive club. Are they somehow brainwashed? Brain-dead? "...because I told the truth..." YES you idiot. Pleaing guilty for a lesser sentence only SOMETIMES works in a criminal court. And really, since the only punishment a company can give is termination, guess what they give?

    And this confusing idea of connecting "downloading while an employee" with "embezzlement"? Are you f***ing serious?! If nothing else illustrates the difference between theft and infringement, this comparison should.

    I'm wondering now if their "warm, soft and fuzzy" user experience has tainted their expectations of the world. Do they really think they live in such a world?

    Hasn't anyone noticed that the Apple logo has a bite taken out of it? It has a piece missing. Would you, in the real world, ever buy an apple that has literally been bitten from? Doubt it. Perhaps this is the starting point of the dementia. Or maybe it's the strange "happy" looks on the faces of Apple users that cause other people to want to join their brain-dead club? Maybe it's a combination of different types coming together for different reasons... all of which are largely *imaginary*. Or maybe the Apple logo is symbolic of their minds... you know... a piece is missing?

    It should be unsurprising to anyone that I am a Linux user. I am a sysadmin type who administers Linux, Windows and Apple computer systems.... (and other stuff too) So it's not like I'm inexperienced with Apple and "just don't understand." I see the whole realm of thought and behavior. Apple users really DO "think differently" and it's at the very least, a little troublesome.

  3. Re:The consequences were that you got fired.. by Androclese · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It is this attitude, and the scary fact that it was modified to +5 Insightful, that worries me about society today. You act as if they have a God-given-right to work at Apple; they do not.

    They did something wrong. They were punished for it. End of story. Apple did not over-react, they did what they needed to do for employees that broke the rules and regulations of Apple. I personally would have fired them and them followed up with a lawsuit against them; but perhaps Apple dropped the lawsuit since they came forward on their own.

    If they were fired for no reason what-so-ever, then we would have a real story. What we have now is the whining of somebody who doesn't like that he is being held accountable for his own actions.

    If they didn't want any of these problems then perhaps they should not have dome something wrong in the first place.