Personal anecdote, personal interpretation (though shared by colleagues I discussed this with at the time who also heard the tone and phrasing of the words firs

Personal anecdote, personal interpretation (though shared by colleagues I discussed this with at the time who also heard the tone and phrasing of the words first hand). The SVP would never tell anyone to delete emails, and he did not do so! Did I make that clear? He did NOT do so. He definitely DID NOT want us to DELETE ANY EMAILS! No SVP would have publicly instructed anyone to do so. Unrelatedly, I would not have believed you at the time if you told me that the then CEO had entered into an illegal mutual non-solicit agreement with Apple (and Intel, Adobe, and others), suppressing employee pay by agreeing not to recruit or hire each other's workers. History and a successful class action lawsuit revealed a different story.