> Even if she was acting improperly w.r.t. company proprietary information I'd have thought that competent PR folk would know to never fire someone in a positio

> Even if she was acting improperly w.r.t. company proprietary information I'd have thought that competent PR folk would know to never fire someone in a position like this because there's no way the company can look good in the aftermath. This is something I do wonder about. We've seen a fair number of cases recently of tech companies firing people who've publicly agitated for changes in the company culture and always claiming, "Oh, no, it's because they were leaking confidential information, it has nothing to do with them being activists." And, okay, I guess that's possible in each and every case, but as you said, not a good look.