Making a weak legal argument that is bound to highlight the heartlessness of a corporation that tries to be famously accommodating and friendly to guests is a move that should have been caught before the argument was filed.
How much in goodwill and PR work did it cost them to make an argument that would have saved them maybe a million dollars in the unlikely event it worked.
There’s a reason that corporations will often settle cases that they are legally in the right for, and cost benefit analyses are a huge part of that.
> Note that this allegedly vengeful former employee also risked public health and safety. By editing the menus to suggest that certain items were safe for people with peanut allergies when they weren’t, he risked people having life-threatening anaphylactic incidents. There is no allegation that anyone was actually harmed or injured, however, as Disney detected the alterations before menus could be sent out to restaurants
https://databreaches.net/2024/10/30/fbi-investigated-disney-...
Fewer than 1% of allergy incidents result in death, which can't be said for drunk driver crashes.
This would be programming a machine to print "non-alcoholic" on alcoholic beer in such an analogy about drunk drivers.
I assume that the software probably controls all menus, both digital and printed.
[1] https://databreaches.net/2025/01/13/former-disney-employee-a...
derektank•6h ago
Endangering third parties in an effort to take revenge on your former employer is sociopath territory.
kayodelycaon•6h ago
I don't think that really does. I think it's common human behavior to not think about the third parties you're actually endangering and only focusing on who you're trying to hurt.
We don't like to think of ourselves that way but it's relatively easy to push buttons on a human and get them to do things we would regard as "sociopathic" with out the person themselves being a sociopath. See On Killing by Dave Grossman.
JumpCrisscross•6h ago
Right. That’s sociopathic hate. Note that OP didn’t say psychopathic, which is something one is born with.
esalman•5h ago
tinix•5h ago
people have been misusing the term cybernetic for a while now, I've noticed...
tinix•5h ago
people have been misusing the term cybernetic for a while now, I've noticed...
gruez•5h ago
Despite the word "cyber", it doesn't refer to brain implants or computers.
adolph•5h ago
The Dan Davies book “The Accountability Machine” [0] makes the link between corps and cybernetics through early business author/consultants like Stafford Beer [1].
0. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo252799...
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
maronato•5h ago
xyst•5h ago
There are ways to kill a corporation without the need to use the same playbook as corporations (using others as pawns to get a point across).
ycombinatrix•3h ago
brutal_chaos_•1h ago