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		qqii on Feb 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Every employee who leaves Apple becomes an ‘associ... I'd argue that false data doesn't achieve this, it just confuses everything. Using an analogy in programming terms, it would be like `job_title <- Maybe "NULL"` whereas they really ment `job_title <- Nothing`.

redler on Feb 11, 2022 [–]

I do agree with this. If they stick with this policy it would be better if they use some unambiguous title like “Former Employee”.

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