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Apple fired the father of the viral YouTuber
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I think this is the kindest, most respectful and reasonable way of putting it. Drop the mic, my friend. I’m not reading past your post to any other comments. You’ve said it perfectly.
I wish their family well. Her mom and dad seemed like nice people. As for the daughter, I’m surprised she’s surprised how mean comments can get. I’ve only been looking at YouTube videos for less than a year and I’ve already seen comments that make my hair stand on end.
They aren’t just mean, they’re really bizarre and a little bit scary!You mean he let every future employer know that signing a NDA means nothing to him?
They violated multiple rules. One which is you are not allowed to record videos while on campus. I think if she had only recorded when he used it to pay he would've been fine. But he gave her the phone and that was the fatal error. The phone wasn't his to give his daughter to hold or record, that's what got him axed.
Most companies that make things, ANYTHING, now have NDA's. Mine does. Most are pretty stupid in the first place- you probably couldn't pay someone in the general public and in most cases even competitors, to pay attention to the product and how it is made, but you sign an NDA or you don't work.
My personal thoughts are that Apple has historically been overly sensitive about secrecy. Not knowing what the product was or could do has prevented me from buying their products more than once, at least initially. I don't buy anything simply because of the company that makes it, I want to know what it does that's better or different, as in REALLY better or different and not just hype.
I don't think there is a legal leg for the father to stand on. He did sign the NDA, and this video did violate it. The best he can hope for is a backlash against the firing which would cause Apple to reinstate him because of the bad publicity this costs them. Since this would set a dangerous legal precedent for Apple's NDA's and employees, I don't expect that to happen.
My personal thoughts are that Apple has historically been overly sensitive about secrecy. Not knowing what the product was or could do has prevented me from buying their products more than once, at least initially. I don't buy anything simply because of the company that makes it, I want to know what it does that's better or different, as in REALLY better or different and not just hype.
I don't think there is a legal leg for the father to stand on. He did sign the NDA, and this video did violate it. The best he can hope for is a backlash against the firing which would cause Apple to reinstate him because of the bad publicity this costs them. Since this would set a dangerous legal precedent for Apple's NDA's and employees, I don't expect that to happen.
I think this is the kindest, most respectful and reasonable way of putting it. Drop the mic, my friend. I’m not reading past your post to any other comments. You’ve said it perfectly.
I wish their family well. Her mom and dad seemed like nice people. As for the daughter, I’m surprised she’s surprised how mean comments can get. I’ve only been looking at YouTube videos for less than a year and I’ve already seen comments that make my hair stand on end.
A lot of members are saying that they feel her video is fake and she's not genuine. I disagree, I think this she is truly passionate about her Father if you watch the video originally that she posted when he was with her. He seems like he is a really legitimate and nice guy. It's just they both made inadvertent mistakes in this situation.
I think this is the kindest, most respectful and reasonable way of putting it. Drop the mic, my friend. I’m not reading past your post to any other comments. You’ve said it perfectly.
I wish their family well. Her mom and dad seemed like nice people. As for the daughter, I’m surprised she’s surprised how mean comments can get. I’ve only been looking at YouTube videos for less than a year and I’ve already seen comments that make my hair stand on end.
Southpark is one cause. Many of the comments you think are scary are humour.
My non-insider understanding, from Gruber, is that employees are allowed to open-carry embargoed devices once they're announced, but have to put them away if approached about them and refrain from discussing them further.
I'm curious what happened to the Cafe Macs staff that blithely welcomed his daughter and her quite conspicuous videocamera.
But does that mean another ex-employee can’t file a “discrimination” suit?
I’d think Apple has some sort of arbitration agreement condition upon hiring?
If that was the plan, I can't imagine it working out. The resume won't say he's a great guy that values family. This video WILL say he violates NDA's and mishandles company property. Now that the video is out there's no ***** footing around it with future employers about why he no longer works for Apple. That assumes they will even entertain his resume once they find out and not just toss it into the trash.
Maybe. I see some weird and vicious insults lobbed between viewers sometimes. And lots and lots of pervy comments.
+1 This might just get enough people talking about him in silicon valley that word gets to his current employer and costs him that role as well.
Hopefully this is the end of the drama in his life from his daughter's hobby. (she should have just kept quiet after her first mistake)
The best practice is always setup as a new phone. Everyone there is an issue with your phone, Apple always want to to first try restore it, if still not helping they will ask you to try to setup as a new phone and see if the issue resolved.
I do feel lazy sometimes and just didn’t want to dive into each apps and see what’s saved on the cloud and what’s not. The sacrifice is you might be running into some issue here and there, or not having the most optimized experience.
I do feel lazy sometimes and just didn’t want to dive into each apps and see what’s saved on the cloud and what’s not. The sacrifice is you might be running into some issue here and there, or not having the most optimized experience.
Pretty sure you posted this to the wrong thread.
Everybody is missing the point:
If she was viral, she had no business being in a cafeteria.
If she was viral, she had no business being in a cafeteria.
Absolutely. Silicon valley already knows his name and HR likely already has an email waiting for them when they get in on Monday. It's unfortunate, but it happens.
I don't blame her for milking it. She might as well try to turn lemons into lemonade.
The security at the Mothership is / will be tighter than Fort Knox, incl. CCTV in said cafeteria, surprised folks are being taken in by this.
This.
She had 10+ seconds footage of the phone itself that was clearly filmed in a deliberate recording environment, not the cafe. I was also surprised she clearly showed his first and last name when he scanned into the campus and her name clearly showing on her name badge (not as surprising).
Another interesting thing...it was filmed on Sept 15 I think. And it only now came out. Did it take her that long to edit? Did someone think releasing the video just before the release would be less of an offense or generate more publicity? Is it all dismissed as coincidence?
More questions than answers...
Lol I did, maybe it will ease the tension a little.
Clearly you do not work in technology, and specifically hardware technology.
I'm more surprised by how many people don't think the rules don't apply. It's kind of horrifying.
Almost certainly less AdSense revenue than one week of her old man's lost salary at Apple. This isn't like a sex tape, whose "value" can catapult the right performers into reality TV stars. Besides, she's not even a tech vlogger like iJustine. Her video was primarily "a day in the life of me" material (e.g. shopping), that happened to include the unreleased X, which inadvertently made the video a lightning rod for 15 minutes. After a week, when the vlogosphere will be saturated with iPhone X videos, her YT channel will be forgotten, and her father will be working for Robert Scoble.