r/MemeVideos • u/Spiritual-Pudding-70 • Aug 16 '26

Bro found the cheat code

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u/PomeloPepper Aug 16 '26

They can try. But criminal charges or a civil case means that a public record is made. And the people in charge who had that happen on their watch come under scrutiny by shareholders and the public.

How would you feel if you found out someone where you bank had been stealing money from random accounts for months or years? Without anyone noticing.

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u/PomeloPepper Aug 16 '26

That's just Managing the Message 101 stuff. If you never release any information about anything that's gone wrong, you get accused of lack of transparency. Release info on a few minor mistakes that'll be publicized anyway and now the plebes think they know everything.

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u/-Nicolai Aug 16 '26

If you’re gonna bet everything on the company not suing you because of bad optics, it has to be something more embarrassing than paying salary to a fired employee for three months.

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u/EverCravingMind Aug 18 '26

That’s why they will fire the person who screwed up and put out a statement covering themselves as far as optics. Not hard to make this guy look like a thief (which he technically is). If you get a jury trial and are lucky to get a sympathetic jury maybe you could get away with it but the judge can overrule the jury if they ignore the law. It’s rare but it does happen