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Because at some point their emails about the firing will be subpoenaed, and if they lie about it now it's going to bite them harder later.
by bjt 2mo ago
Because at some point their emails about the firing will be subpoenaed, and if they lie about it now it's going to bite them harder later.
- nvme0n1p1 2mo agoThey still didn't have to outright confess to the crime though. When talking to journalists you're allowed to say "no comment".
- eru 2mo agoThat's why we got training at Google that more or less told us not to put these kinds of things in writing. Remember: the e in e-mail stands for evidence.
- Scoundreller 2mo agoAnd the O in RTO stands for Oral-communication-only
- lukan 2mo ago"Remember: the e in e-mail stands for evidence." Were you told this literally?
- eru 2mo agoIt's a common joke, but it's not something you would find literally in the Google-internal official material. They ain't that stupid. The joke ain't Google specific, I might have picked it up working in finance. If you bing the phrase, you'll find plenty of hits in published articles.
- shrikant 2mo agoYeah when I worked at Deloitte Consulting, we had similar training that said something to the effect of "don't put something in an email that wouldn't feel comfortable as a newspaper headline".
- red-iron-pine 2mo ago"assume your mother, and/or the courts, will read it." was the version I heard
- DonsDiscountGas 2mo agoAnd the s stands for secure