Google has recently made the news for offering its 23,000 a 10% raise and a $1000 bonus. Sounds like a great time to work at Google. Unless you're the employee who accidentally leaked the memo making this announcement.
According to the LA Times, Google immediately fired the employee responsible for releasing the info to the press. When asked about the incident, a Google spokesman stated that, "We don't comment on personal matters." To me, this doesn't seem like a great response by a company who one would imagine has a pretty well-staffed and (apparently) well-paid PR department. Moreover, if Google sent out a memo to its 23,000 employees containing this information, the rest of the 'public' was likely to find out at some point anyway. I'm not very familiar with Google's press activity, but this seems a little drastic to me.
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