I was a manager at Apple in 1990. It was very hard to be fired from Apple in those days, because they were very buttoned up about labor law. There were layers o

I was a manager at Apple in 1990. It was very hard to be fired from Apple in those days, because they were very buttoned up about labor law. There were layers of corrective action you would have had to go through. I left Apple in 1991 because they disbanded the testing department, sending a clear signal about not wanting there to be people who lived and breathed testing. I am probably the only person in that building who still has an active career as a tester, today.