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As we all know, Amit's real friends called him Mike #2.

Mike#2 has been in the company for longer than a month !

Character smears which are clearly at odds with the facts (as another reply to this comment notes) are exceedingly toxic.

Even if everything else fits, this doesn't. And you're messing with someone's life.

(I'm not defending Amit. I don't know him. The claims here strike me as plausible, though I don't know either way. There's a reason such matters are referred to legal systems, ultimately, if necessary. Not a perfect system either, but rather better than unsubstantiated, or worse, glibly false, claims in online media.)

It was meant to be preposterously false, signifying that I thought this was a scapegoat for a larger problem, but from the reaction it's clear I did not communicate that.

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