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No, that’s not what happened.</p>
<p>Read the article – he didn’t quit, he was fired.</p>
<p>Then he turned down the $16K. </p>
<p>But it doesn’t change the fact that his moral dudgeon didn’t go into high gear until after the company had already decided that they didn’t need him on staff.</p>
<p>I don’t doubt the validity of some of his critique, but it is pretty easy for a fired employee to figure out all that was wrong with the company he used to work for. A disgruntled fired employee may have motivation to exaggerate – so that’s not always the most reliable of sources.</p>