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Re:Uber Fires More Than 20 Employees in Harassment Probe by StevePerkins on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @02:50PM (#14499979)
You're both kinda correct... your original comment was just poorly phrased.

The word "scapegoat" is commonly used to describe someone who gets blamed for something unfairly. Assuming these fired employees were harassing colleagues, then it wasn't "unfair" to fire them.

But you seem to be using it in a manner similar to "fall guy". Where a lower-level wrongdoer ends up shielding higher-level wrongdoers from blame.

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Re:Uber Fires More Than 20 Employees in Harassment Probe by ThrustVectoring on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @02:54PM (#14500034)
Yeah, that's definitely what I'm pointing at. Low-level wrongdoers getting scapegoated for higher-level misdeeds. There's two problems, really - sexual harassment, and a culture that tolerated it. The question is which issue Uber is firing people for, and which problem Uber is getting credit for fixing. I don't think Uber should get credit for fixing the second problem by firing the people contributing to the first problem.
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