Well this is to work very hard to find some justification where I think the reality is a bit different: it was a good move to fire the employee because a rule is a rule. If it is confidential you can't leak it, even if it is the simplest and harmless of the things.
But I don't think that here the problem is that the leak may harm workers. You work at google so everybody already know you have a good salary. 10% raise is really marginal in the game of big numbers, who freaking cares?
Instead I think that the company had some reason to avoid leaking this. Either because they wanted to keep this secret to don't appear weak, or because they wanted to divulgate the news in a moment where the mediatic resonance is at max.
Still a rule is a rule. You can't leak a confidential company secret, whatever it is, otherwise you deserve to be fired.
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Well this is to work very hard to find some justification where I think the reality is a bit different: it was a good move to fire the employee because a rule is a rule. If it is confidential you can't leak it, even if it is the simplest and harmless of the things.
But I don't think that here the problem is that the leak may harm workers. You work at google so everybody already know you have a good salary. 10% raise is really marginal in the game of big numbers, who freaking cares?
Instead I think that the company had some reason to avoid leaking this. Either because they wanted to keep this secret to don't appear weak, or because they wanted to divulgate the news in a moment where the mediatic resonance is at max.
Still a rule is a rule. You can't leak a confidential company secret, whatever it is, otherwise you deserve to be fired.