<story><title>OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings</title><url>https://chicago.eater.com/2018/3/5/17078210/opentable-reserve-fake-reservation-scheme-no-shows-chicago-restaurants-valentines</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trhway</author><text>&amp;gt;Reserve’s security team conducted an investigation and brought that evidence to OpenTable and started a dialogue between the two rivals. OpenTable confirmed that it fired the employee in question&lt;p&gt;lesson to the youngsters - never do anything smelly&amp;#x2F;unethical (dont even mention criminal) without manager approval in writing. Otherwise at the first sign of trouble you&amp;#x27;ll be made to take one for the team as it seems to have happened in this and countless other cases.&lt;p&gt;I mean even in normal situation, whenever some details of feature, project, etc. are discussed and decided&amp;#x2F;assigned in some informal way, i find it is very useful to send a summary note so the manager&amp;#x2F;PM&amp;#x2F;etc wouldn&amp;#x27;t come later with the very different version of what happened.</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings</title><url>https://chicago.eater.com/2018/3/5/17078210/opentable-reserve-fake-reservation-scheme-no-shows-chicago-restaurants-valentines</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erikb</author><text>Read this and ctrl-f &amp;quot;cat&amp;#x27;s paw&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;execution failure&amp;quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ribbonfarm.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;the-gervais-principle-v-heads-i-win-tails-you-lose&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ribbonfarm.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;14&amp;#x2F;the-gervais-principle-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I love how many of the Gervais Principle examples are actually something you can see in real life. Also hating it though. I wish we would live in a better world.</text></comment>