[Kylekramer]

Lot of people are confusing "following standard procedures" with "immune from consequences". To be honest, looks like the employee got a few sympathetic people to sign off on an inappropriate use of a tool. According to the Verge, there are two other people who are also being disciplined.

[kawfey]

I'm starting to assume the two others are the two peer reviewers that approved the change.

[tantalor]

That comment: "the company had fired someone last week for misusing the browser notification, and it had also disciplined two others as part of the incident"

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/17/21024472/google-employee...