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Comment by marticode | Hacker News Reader

These stories pop up on a regular basis. Someone from Google eventually reaches out and fixes it because of all the publicity. Meanwhile, the policy (which is insane, and compounded by the difficulty of reaching a human at Google support) never changes.

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If this blows up enough I can believe it changes. Not because Google wants to, but because suddenly people getting fired realize that they can cause significant damage that way.. If this suddenly happens a few hundred times within a week, Google will have to act or will lose a lot of clients.

Standard practice when someone is fired is to remove all their access credentials during or before they're told they are being fired.

How do you un-verify a recovery email address from outwith the account to be recovered?

You disable the account, which means it isn't active and therefore any employee action won't affect the company.

As long as people still sign up to put their data and their businesses futures in Google's hands, they have no reason to get better. Money is flowing in, and fixing their problems would cost them a lot of that money.

G-suite accounts have very responsive tech support (phone and email). Either they're not using G-suite or they're clueless about their tech-support contacts.

Have to distinguish from G-Suite accounts. Google has customer support that is actually very good in my experience.

Kind of surprised people expect different for something that is free.

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