- Employee was error prone and this mistake was just the biggest one to make headlines. Could be from incompetence or apathy.
- Impacted clients demanded the employee at-fault be terminated.
- Deterrence: fire one guy, everyone else knows to take that issue seriously. Doesn't Google do this? If you leak something to press, you're fired, then a company email goes out "Hey we canned dude for running his mouth..."
It's better to engage the known and perhaps questionable justifications than to "never understand".
- Employee was error prone and this mistake was just the biggest one to make headlines. Could be from incompetence or apathy.
- Impacted clients demanded the employee at-fault be terminated.
- Deterrence: fire one guy, everyone else knows to take that issue seriously. Doesn't Google do this? If you leak something to press, you're fired, then a company email goes out "Hey we canned dude for running his mouth..."
It's better to engage the known and perhaps questionable justifications than to "never understand".