Posts by hwstar

Symantec fires staff caught up in rogue Google SSL cert snafu

Re: It's easy ...

I agree. They may not be finished with the sackings yet. It gets harder to fire people as you go up the chain of command, and Monty Python's monologue on sacking comes to mind...

In the US, you can be "Fired for Cause" for situations such as this. When you are fired for cause, you don't get unemployment compensation, and you might have trouble with Health Insurance if you choose COBRA over the ACA. I suspect that the affected individuals are going to have a tough going ahead.

I don't know how it works in the UK when someone is sacked for gross violations of policy. I would be interested to know what happens in the UK under the same situation.