charlesatlas said:

Bad timing on Gallagher's part. The very same day, USPTO denied her application for trademarks on "Queen of Christmas."

Yes, so she is the "Queen of Christmas", and not "The Queen of Christmas™".

JP234 said:

Employees who work for a private sector company serve at the will of the employer. That employer can terminate any employee not covered by a labor contract or union representation, at any time, for any reason, or for no reason.

Like it or not, the employee has no recourse in this case.

Is this the case in California? Does she not have a contract? Would Apple really terminate her when it was clearly a case of a manager overstepping their boundaries just to cover for themselves? Employe retention has been difficult for many companies in the tech industry so it's not exactly the right time to be sacking someone just because a middle manager got spooked.

TenApplesUpOnTop said:

loopless said:

Yeah and Joe-schmo blasting away with a gun at a coffee shop is more likely to kill innocent people than the perpetrators.

Name one instance where the good guy with the gun who stopped a criminal ended up killing innocent bystanders.

https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2022/07/20/denver-police-scrutiny-gunfire-shooting

More training needed...

My favourite 'only in America' videos are when the cops are chasing someone down the highway, and the cop driving shoots through his own windshield in order to get some shots off in the direction of the suspect. They always seem to be in LA.

Alternatively...

Russia plans to get bags of hard currency by fining Apple over something something something.