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You missed a piece: the employee is always at fault | 396 comments | Create New Account
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So, now a poor engineer, is a criminal, when was not "to blame" at all?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 11:49 AM EDT

For the really big scandals, people go to jail for destroying evidence and/or lying about the scandal.

This point is made in the old saying from the British House of Commons: "People don't resign from cabinet over an affair, they resign from cabinet for being caught lying about it." For the U.S. version, see Bill Clinton. He was impeached for lying about the affair.

This luckless engineer didn't realize this rule. Hence, he is going to jail because he told the truth, and didn't want to get caught doing it.

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You missed a piece: the employee is always at fault
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 01:12 PM EDT

Manager gives employee order to delete material:

    Employee refuses: direct refusal of an order from a superior = insubordination = loss of job
    Employee complies: the employee runs the risk of being criminally charged if the act falls into the appropriate definition
We have seen acceptions to that with certain high level managers facing criminal charges. Unfortunately the above is the common happenings, not the acception.

As we've seen in certain news stories:

    Corporations seem to have some control over having the F.B.I. assist them in civil matters.
Corporations commonly equate to upper management. Except when a serious wrong occurs... then it's either:
    A lower employees fault
or
    Something new that needs a new Law against it
After all - pretexting really is a new act, it really doesn't fall into identity theft and/or fraud.

Caveat: don't mind me, the above is just my current perspective of how the Law handles Corporate wrongs.

RAS

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