> There are plenty liberal/left essays floating about the google intranets, this is not you average employer. Yeah, but do they call a third of their coworkers

> There are plenty liberal/left essays floating about the google intranets, this is not you average employer. Yeah, but do they call a third of their coworkers incompetent? It's not the fact that it's an opinion piece, it's that it's a very tactless way of approaching the situation. I'm not defending the leaker here, but once it did get leaked, there really was little the company could do to keep him a productive member of the workforce.