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Apple fires employee -> likely employee’s fault.

FB, Goog, Amazon, MS fire an employee -> they are terrible companies.

HN’s biases are infuriating.

Replace Apple with Facebook or Google and everyone will have their pitchforks out.

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That is a vast overgeneralization. I think you may be falling prey to the notice-dislike bias:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Everyone with strong feelings on $topic thinks the community is biased against their views.

I think you get exactly the same kind of "employee's fault," corporate defenders in all of these kinds of discussions.

I think you do not hate corporations just for the sake of it. There is money in the outrage business. Every movement can be sabotaged by people who have their own self interest t the forefront. It is easy to hide bad behavior under emotional issues.

Which makes a lot of sense considering this forum is full of people who create and run corporations.

It's fair to assume that every firing is done for a reason/as a result of a problem, and having evidence of the reason being immoral is important if we're going to be a responsible "court of public opinion".

Bruh we bag on Apple constantly about Right to Repair, their app store monopoly, and destroyed them over their phone scanning shit.

We regularly BEAT on Apple.

Obviously the app we all noticed was...Google Drive in that list!

/Edited: I forgot, we also bag on them constantly about WFH, and their piss poor record with bug bounties. There are probably some I'm forgetting.

HN as a whole only very recently started to "beat" on Apple. Before 2021 it was a lot of "well maybe there are two sides to Apple curb stomping both devs and users."

I could listen to people complain about Google Drive all day

I had to do a second reading when I realized that "ate" was a typo of "are"

I’ve been trying to cut down on terrible companies recently, bad for heart-health you know

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