De mortuis nil nisi bonum
Unless in a court of law, in which case, pile on 'em.
Apple insists its top execs were not aware of the employee wage-fixing pact Steve Jobs apparently had between his Silicon Valley rivals. Apple stockholder R. Andre Klein is suing the iPhone giant's CEO Tim Cook, a handful of its directors and the Jobs' estate, on behalf of the company's shareholders, claiming the top brass …
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What we do know is Jobs was sneaky, manipulative, and would merely threaten anyone who questioned him.
Hence it is most feasible his own people inside apple knew nothing of this.
Jobs was like Hitler in many ways. Clever innovators but inherently vile evil people.
Hitler tended to make those that questioned him brown bread. as jobs probably did.
For exactly how long can Apple blame Jobs for every shitty thing they do? Probably forever, I suppose - I'm told he believed in reincarnation. As soon as he popped his clogs Apple execs were likely out there looking for a child born at the same moment, like the Dalai Lama.
Perhaps we should get it all out of the way at once and hold a Cadaver Synod. Dig up Jobs's body, try him for everything all at once, cut off his swiping fingers and throw the rest in the river. Then we can all get on with our lives and actually blame the corporation for the reprehensible things it does.
If you're a senior director and you don't know about something happening at your company that is delivering your biggest cost saving, and affects every employee you have, then you shouldn't be a senior director. You need to be sacked before you resign in shame.
Blaming the dead guy is disgraceful. Sure, Jobs could be a knob (I'm not sure there are any nice guy geniuses out there) but trying to blame him in isolation is digusting.
> If you're a senior director and you don't know about something happening at your company that is
> delivering your biggest cost saving
Most directors care very, very little about employee matters (apart from making sure that they hire the right people - for whichever version of 'right' applies).
That kind of stuff is usually left to HR staff and/or lower level minions.
Most directors care very, very little about employee matters
And yet most directors care very very much about cost reductions.
Still more directors care about who speaks for the company in any negotiation.
And all directors care from where this years bonus comes.
The idea that this wasn't orchestrated with the complicity and full knowledge of the C suite of management and those in the the tier below is, frankly, garbage. Fail. Epic fail, and no messing.