after 20 years at several US BigCo-s i see such an email as a totally fireable offense for a manager in a US company (and in Russia the boss would do bad things

after 20 years at several US BigCo-s i see such an email as a totally fireable offense for a manager in a US company (and in Russia the boss would do bad things to you and would still probably fire you after that if you don't come to your senses :): https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-an-ethical https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a... It also sounds like she did lawyer-rammed the Google a year before, so they were tip-topping around her strictly by the book, and with such clear an offense as that email she just threw the HR a freebie, as another commenter put it, so they could now get rid of her strictly by the book.