Your response is 90% opine. By bringing it up he is giving the company a chance to be aware of its mistake. As long as he is respectful in how its done that's

Your response is 90% opine. By bringing it up he is giving the company a chance to be aware of its mistake. As long as he is respectful in how its done that's a very selfless thing. FYI the open-and-to-hell-with-it strategy works well for me, I am very successful by most measures.