Ali responded that four programmers were dismissed for grabbing moon cakes： touching the red line of integrity.

　　Yesterday, a message that "Ali programmers were fired for taking advantage of loopholes to grab mooncakes" sparked a heated discussion on the Internet. It is understood that on September 12, Alibaba sold surplus moon cakes to employees at cost price through the intranet, and temporarily developed an internal booking page. Subsequently, four employees of the company’s security department wrote a program to "swipe the bill" and brushed 124 boxes of moon cakes, which was why they were dismissed.

　　Yesterday, regarding the dismissal of four people, Alibaba responded that the four employees’ actions "violated their job responsibilities and used tools to cheat" touched the red line of integrity. At present, all four employees involved have left their jobs.

　　After the incident, a self-proclaimed employee’s account posted that he was somewhat "blind" after experiencing this incident. The employee said that after the "spike" mooncake activity started on the afternoon of the 12th, he clicked on the page and found that he couldn’t grab it, so he "wrote a js (scripting language running on the browser)" to participate in the "brushing".

　　The employee explained in the post that the function of this code is: if the button becomes "spike", it will be crazy, and then (use the program) to process the verification code. In the end, the employee used the program to rob 16 items, but he found that these items were not paid. Subsequently, the employee called the company’s administrative department in the hope of returning the order. But what made him "unprepared" was that in the afternoon, the relevant departments of the company "interviewed" several employees involved and proposed to cancel the contract.

　　After the incident was exposed, many netizens discussed it. Some people say that it is inappropriate for the employees involved to use the procedure to "swipe the bill", while others think that whether the company dismisses employees in this way violates the relevant provisions of the labor law.

　　On the afternoon of the 13th, Alibaba Company responded to the "moon cake spike incident in the intranet", saying that due to welfare considerations, the company’s administrative department decided to sell a few surplus moon cakes to employees at cost price through the intranet, and temporarily developed an internal reservation page.

　　According to the response, during the domestic sales of moon cakes, the company found that four staff members "cheated by technical means and brushed 124 boxes of moon cakes in total", and then the company made a "decision to ask them (the employees involved) to leave the company".

　　Regarding the reasons for dismissal, the response stated that "the employees of the Ministry of Security, as defenders of the platform rules, violated their job responsibilities and used tools to cheat, which touched the red line of integrity."

　　In this regard, lawyer Han Xiao of Beijing Kangda Law Firm said, "Honesty or not is not the basis for the employer to unilaterally terminate the labor contract as stipulated in the relevant laws and regulations of the labor law." Han Xiao added that Article 39 of the Labor Contract Law stipulates that if a worker seriously violates the rules and regulations of the employer, the employer may terminate the labor contract. But in this case, whether the programmer’s behavior is a serious violation of the rules and regulations of the employer depends on how the company’s internal rules and regulations are stipulated.

　　"If the employee’s breach of integrity is clearly defined as a serious violation of discipline, the company can dismiss several employees involved according to internal regulations and relevant provisions of the labor law. On the other hand, if the company does not stipulate whether the employee’s breach of integrity is a serious violation of discipline, the company’s unilateral termination of the labor contract violates the relevant provisions of the labor law and is an illegal termination of the labor contract. " Han Xiao added.

　　It is understood that the four employees currently involved have terminated their labor contracts with the company, and the resignation procedures have been completed.

　　Text/reporter Zhang Ya