Traffic,
forgot to say, your sympathy thing(between sh#t and syphilis)...brilliant;-) Hope I can quote you without paying copyright fees!
asianeagle...no!
It's a long story...simple version. A NTC came out. They sought clarification of their situation. They were squeaky clean at the time. Over the next few months 2 things happened...their situation changed which caused them to drift into a grey area(unintentionally)....and the CX position drifted to also include more of this grey area into the 'verboten' zone. Did they deserve to be fired? In my opinion, absolutely NOT. I am pretty cut and dried about things...if I had been in charge of their D+G, I would have made them pay back some money. Thats all.
I think CX wanted to make an example...as they did with the 49ers.
Like I said, CX can be incredibly uncaring and harsh as a corporation, but incredibly caring on an individual level. That is why you get such extreme and opposite posts on this website about them!