[bawolff]

There is a huge difference between someone making a mistake and someone intentionally sabotaging.

You're not firing the person because they broke stuff, you are firing them because they tried to break stuff. If the attempt was a failure and caused no harm, you would still fire them. Its not about the damage they caused its that they wanted to cause damage.

[ozim]

But for damaging company assets on purpose firing is only first step.

I do not see any mention of other legal action and article is shallow.

It might’ve been that someone in command chain called it “malicious” to cover up his own mistakes. I think that is parent poster point while writing out Amazon story.

[bawolff]

Maybe, but without any other info, i kind of have to take the info provided at face value. Like obviously if the article is inaccurate the whole situation should be viewed differently.

[andmarios]

The article says:

  As well as firing the person in August, ByteDance said it had informed the intern's university and industry bodies about the incident.