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That all seems... pretty damning. Not very surprising, but pretty damning.

Google definitely needs to outright fire the HR partner who was stupid enough to write that they should "do some digging" on a staff member down. They're clearly a liability.




Yes, that's absolutely the crux of the problem here.


For our benefit, shouldn't they stay on permanently? Also, how does messing up a cc equate to a bad employee? It happens all the time even in important communications. Sucks, but what can you do?


> Also, how does messing up a cc equate to a bad employee?

It wasn't the CC I was criticising. If you subscribe to the maxim that the point of an HR department is to shield the company from successful employment lawsuits then putting "dig up some dirt" on someone in writing anywhere where it is subject to discovery in the event of a lawsuit is flat out incompetent.




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