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Apple fires iPhone X engineer after daughter's hands-on video goes viral
Apple has reportedly dismissed an engineer after his daughter's iPhone X hands-on video went viral on YouTube. Brooke Amelia Peterson published a vlog earlier this week, which included a trip to the Apple campus to visit her father and see an unreleased iPhone X. Peterson's video was quickly picked up by sites like 9to5Mac, and it spread even further on YouTube.
Peterson now claims her father has been fired as a result of her video. In a tearful video, Peterson explains her father violated an Apple company rule by allowing her to film the unreleased handset at Apple's campus. Apple reportedly requested that Peterson remove the video, but it was clearly too late as the content spread further and further.
From the follow-up video (at 2:14):
"He takes full responsibility for letting me film his iPhone X. Apple let him go. At the end of the day, when you work for Apple, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are. If you break a rule, they just have no tolerance. They had to do what they had to do. I'm not mad at Apple. I'm not gonna stop buying Apple products. Rules are in place for the happiness and for the safety of workers."
Will Mr. Peterson get sued if he tries to work somewhere else in Silicon Valley?
Also at Engadget.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday October 30 2017, @08:37PM (3 children)
I don't even remember how many times I've been in the slammer.
But that doesn't matter because I'm self-employed. You wouldn't run a background check on the people at the office supply store would you? Rather than being paid HR, I get paid the same way they do for printer ink.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @11:14PM (2 children)
In which of your delusions does coding device drivers to a specification provided by your employer equate to being self-employed? You are getting a paycheck from your employer in exchange for doing work for hire. You are not your own boss. The boss is signing your paychecks. Stop pretending that you own a business. A business has customers.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday October 31 2017, @12:45AM (1 child)
And I have my own project [soggy.jobs].
I've always deducted my technical books. The IRS has never complained. I also deduct my computers, iPads and iPhones.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @01:01AM
that's right.
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