Yup, a personal assistant that knows "what you did last summer", and is probably poor at keeping it secret.

Or if the car can't phone home it won't start. Too bad for you if you stop somewhere where cell service is weak or nonexistent.

What does God need with a starship?

Some places don't fire unless the issue is repeated, client-facing, or willfully dangerous (like assaulting co-workers). The theory is: This is the first time this has happened - we learned from it, the engineer specifically probably learned from it. This won't happen again.

They would have had to pick an RJ45 with that kind of boot (there are other kinds) in that particular port during testing. Or, perhaps think more and say "hmm I wonder if that button is in a bad place"

I was enlisted in the Navy back in the 80's.

I knew from then, if an officer was not promoted on a regular basis they were, I think, asked to resign. This guy is not only slapping officers in the face, he is actually reducing the number of officers in the military.