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Apple Fires Five Employees for Downloading Leopard
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?""
Honestly who is suprised by this? Dur they would have fired you. Back when you interveiwed for min wage jobs and they asked you, "is it ever 'ok' to steal from a company you work for?" ... heres a hint.. DON'T SAY YES!
Would Dreamworks have fired office staff if they had been talking about downloading a hot new Dreamworks movie via BitTorrent like "Over the Hedge"?
I'd fire anyone at any company for watching "Over the Hedge."
Oh yeah? Well what the hell is this that I'm staring at? I bought a Umax Core Duo 7500 with Mac OS X from eBay just last week.
Well, based on the fact that there is no such thing as a "Umax Core Duo 7500", I would guess that you're likely staring at an empty crack pipe.
Eh? I never had to use a cd key for any of my Tiger installs. Methinks you are talking about Server, not client.
The torrent was probably mislabeled.
I didn't know scanners came with multiple cores. I also wonder why they bundled Mac OS X with it...
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How long does it take to copy a 70MB file?
Reminds me of a joke that went somewhat like this:
A businessman was teaching his son about ethics and the ethical dillemas in busines, "Let me give you a practical example, son. See, there's this old friend and business associate of mine, whom I loaned some money to last year. So yesterday he came around and gave me my money back. When I counted the money, I noticed that two banknotes were stuck together, and he had given me a hundred dollars more than he owed me. Which, of course, raised the ethical problem: should I tell your mom too about the extra money, or not?"
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
"Hey boss the other day I copied some of your top secret files from your computer, I just wanted to let you know, we're cool, right?"
Heck, I'd commend the five and give them promotions. No, make that two promotions! By conciously doing something that explicitly violated their company's policies and then having the honesty to admit that they did something wrong makes these people heroes in my opinion and they should be promoted to management. It takes a lot of balls to do something wrong, admit it, and then expect to be an exception to the rules and consequences. Let's hear it for these five heroic whiners!
Erik http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/~rattles
I think the moral is even whores need groceries .
In violating the NDA to which you agreed, you're an idiot.
In admitting your wrongdoing, you're honest.
You're an honest idiot. You're idiotically honest.
Either way, you're an idiot, and the consequences of your idiocy is termination.
(I'd say 'QED' at this point, but I'm sure someone here will rip this up...)
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