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I love how everyone is forgetting about the employee that got fired for showing Woz the ipad early. https://www.cultofmac.com/39931/woz-accidentally-gets-apple

I love how everyone is forgetting about the employee that got fired for showing Woz the ipad early. https://www.cultofmac.com/39931/woz-accidentally-gets-apple-engineer-fired-for-showing-ipad/#:~:text=While%20Woz%20was%20waiting%20in,fired%20up%20the%20Numbers%20app https://www.cultofmac.com/39931/woz-accidentally-gets-apple-....

richardwhiuk 6y ago
That's absolutely a fire-able offence.
- bb88 6y ago
  I even like in the article how Jobs said it wasn't a big deal.
  - sjwright 6y ago
    Sure, but that was Jobs’ call to make, not the employee’s.
    - bb88 6y ago
      And he did, and the employee still got fired!
      - sjwright 6y ago
        No, decisions are things that occur prior to action. It was not the employee’s place to freelance their guesses about what Jobs might approve of. Just because the employee got lucky and gambled successfully with Jobs’ reaction, doesn’t make them trustworthy in future.
- vaxman 6y ago
  I see what you did there. Poor Woz, rofl
  - vaxman 6y ago
    Rockin' dem downvotes from people who know Woz only from fictional books and movies. Woz is a deity-like figure to my peeps (not because of Apple) and he says what he wants, when he wants to. Need something kept secret? Use the Cone Of Silence to tell it to a real businessy-marketing-greaseball. Want your cool new tech (even the OG Samsung smartphones!) to get it's name out there, be certain it truly is cool and only then, show it to Woz! https://youtu.be/AWQKNxuGqg4 https://youtu.be/AWQKNxuGqg4
SV_BubbleTime 6y ago
Rules are rules, right? Selective enforcement of rules is far worse than rules you just think can be broken because “hey, this would be harmless, I without any authority have decided!”
- sukilot 6y ago
  Apple already has special rules for Woz. Jobs was never fired for all the times he broke company rules.
  - ghaff 6y ago
    With some exceptions where the company simply can't turn the other way, if someone high up gets fired for relatively minor rule-breaking, you can be pretty sure the board and/or senior management was looking for a reason to show that person the door anyway.
  - vaxman 6y ago
    Uh...except that one time in 1985 ROFLMAO
    - vaxman 6y ago
      downvoted for referencing Jon Sculley's famous demoting/firing of Steve Jobs https://youtu.be/a1Tpe-dbPQI https://youtu.be/a1Tpe-dbPQI This is why I love this website.
  - miles 6y ago
    > Jobs was never fired for all the times he broke company rules. There was that one time he was fired for trying to break (or at least work around) the rules: This is why Steve Jobs got fired from Apple — and how he came back to save the company https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-apple-fired-returned-2017-7 https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-apple-fired-retur...
- deleted 6y ago
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richardwhiuk 6y ago

That's absolutely a fire-able offence.

bb88 6y ago
I even like in the article how Jobs said it wasn't a big deal.
- sjwright 6y ago
  Sure, but that was Jobs’ call to make, not the employee’s.
  - bb88 6y ago
    And he did, and the employee still got fired!
    - sjwright 6y ago
      No, decisions are things that occur prior to action. It was not the employee’s place to freelance their guesses about what Jobs might approve of. Just because the employee got lucky and gambled successfully with Jobs’ reaction, doesn’t make them trustworthy in future.
vaxman 6y ago
I see what you did there. Poor Woz, rofl
- vaxman 6y ago
  Rockin' dem downvotes from people who know Woz only from fictional books and movies. Woz is a deity-like figure to my peeps (not because of Apple) and he says what he wants, when he wants to. Need something kept secret? Use the Cone Of Silence to tell it to a real businessy-marketing-greaseball. Want your cool new tech (even the OG Samsung smartphones!) to get it's name out there, be certain it truly is cool and only then, show it to Woz! https://youtu.be/AWQKNxuGqg4 https://youtu.be/AWQKNxuGqg4

SV_BubbleTime 6y ago

Rules are rules, right? Selective enforcement of rules is far worse than rules you just think can be broken because “hey, this would be harmless, I without any authority have decided!”

sukilot 6y ago
Apple already has special rules for Woz. Jobs was never fired for all the times he broke company rules.
- ghaff 6y ago
  With some exceptions where the company simply can't turn the other way, if someone high up gets fired for relatively minor rule-breaking, you can be pretty sure the board and/or senior management was looking for a reason to show that person the door anyway.
- vaxman 6y ago
  Uh...except that one time in 1985 ROFLMAO
  - vaxman 6y ago
    downvoted for referencing Jon Sculley's famous demoting/firing of Steve Jobs https://youtu.be/a1Tpe-dbPQI https://youtu.be/a1Tpe-dbPQI This is why I love this website.
- miles 6y ago
  > Jobs was never fired for all the times he broke company rules. There was that one time he was fired for trying to break (or at least work around) the rules: This is why Steve Jobs got fired from Apple — and how he came back to save the company https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-apple-fired-returned-2017-7 https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-apple-fired-retur...
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