[bjt]

Because at some point their emails about the firing will be subpoenaed, and if they lie about it now it's going to bite them harder later.

[nvme0n1p1]

They still didn't have to outright confess to the crime though. When talking to journalists you're allowed to say "no comment".

[eru]

That's why we got training at Google that more or less told us not to put these kinds of things in writing.

Remember: the e in e-mail stands for evidence.

[shrikant]

Yeah when I worked at Deloitte Consulting, we had similar training that said something to the effect of "don't put something in an email that wouldn't feel comfortable as a newspaper headline".

[red-iron-pine]

"assume your mother, and/or the courts, will read it." was the version I heard

[lukan]

"Remember: the e in e-mail stands for evidence."

Were you told this literally?

[eru]

It's a common joke, but it's not something you would find literally in the Google-internal official material. They ain't that stupid.

The joke ain't Google specific, I might have picked it up working in finance. If you bing the phrase, you'll find plenty of hits in published articles.

[Scoundreller]

And the O in RTO stands for Oral-communication-only

[DonsDiscountGas]

And the s stands for secure