[cptskippy]

Exactly. He couldn't even give a line item credit because Legal would step in with a barrage of concerns compelling management to remove it.

[Brian_K_White]

None of these explainations for how this reprehensible behavior came to pass, suggest to me that it's unfair or unreasonable to call it, and the entities who do it, reprehensible.

[wpietri]

Exactly. It's not like people in those companies get nothing done. E.g., Microsoft got the product out the door. So any apparent incompetence at treating humans humanely is a choice.