This all assumes that the emails in question were not automatically blocked by a spam filter.

If a spam filter acted to block/delete both the original and follow-up emails from the bank, the account owner may never have been aware of what happened, and the email message of concern would have been automatically blocked (held for review) or deleted.

If that were the case, it would make sense for the bank to have the account suspended (made inaccessible) until Google could contact the owner.

Now if the account owner was a business, you can bet that the owner would have contacted Google as soon as they were aware of the issue.

If the judge had been smart about this (sounds unlikely, but can't tell), he would have ordered the account frozen (made inaccessible) rather than deleted (it's not clear exactly what he did order).

Yes, the bank screwed up. And possibly so did the account holder (but maybe not). But Google and the court did the right thing. I'm not happy about the way things worked out, but it is perhaps the best possible outcome.

I wonder if the employer is responsible to determining that the employee has a medical condition that is impacting their work?

My output had been suffering for quite some time (months? years?), but I was unable to determine why. I had the will, motivation, and skills, but I simply was no longer up to the task. Working harder simply wasn't cutting it. Something in my life I couldn't see was impacting my work.

That turned out to be sleep apnea (started getting treatment for that 25 days before they let me go), but it could be any medical condition.

So the solution is to put your effort where the money is....

Hmm. That sounds a lot like the way most businesses tend to be run.

The projects that are expected to make the most money also get the most resources. The only time this takes a second seat is when lots of money is likely to be lost if a contract or customer is lost due to poor performance. Any resources that don't support these goals or aren't performing as needed should be re-evaluated.

I was "re-evaluated" from my last job, and it could eventually be traced back to this.

I'm not certain, but the Silent 700 may have been a terminal my dad brought home from work once or twice a week for about a year. At 300 baud, it was a good deal faster than the 110 baud "ticker tape" terminal we had been using previously.
The silent 700 was very light, comparatively fast, and extremely quiet. For comparison, todays inkjet printers are just about as quiet. I was greatly impressed.
To set the stage:
As a 12 year old, I was used to working on model 33 teletypes as a member of a boy scout explorer post (post 599?) (GE/Honeywell in Phoenix, Arizona, about 1972). Punched cards were still common, but there were a few electronic 9600 baud terminals around and required special connections to the mainframes we were using. (Even at 12, I was a nerd, but there wasn't a name for people like us then.)
The ticker tape machine printed text onto a carbonless 1/2 inch tall tape in a long, single line of text. (Think of a single line display.) It worked by having a hammer strike a spinning drum with type characters on its surface. It worked, but there was no possibility for formatted text spanning multiple lines (though you could cut the tape into pieces and scotch tape the pieces to form a page....), and it was extremely noisy.

Memory and reasoning were strongly degraded. Oddly, listening to audio stories became easier (perhaps it's because the imagination works harder). Physical coordination also suffered (typing became much easier as I became more alert).

People characterized me as being hard to work with, argumentative, and perhaps grumpy/grouchy (these were documented issues on my annual work review for several years).

If you've ever taken one of those on-line tests for burn-out, I suspect many of the same factors may be involved. (I was a strong candidate suffering from for burn-out for a very long time.)

Day to day, it was always a struggle to get out of bed in the morning, always wishing I could sleep in a bit longer. On those times when I could sleep in, it didn't really help much.

I had to have a large coffee in the morning to make it through the day, and if I missed it, getting through the day was a real struggle. When this happened, I often had headaches - at the time, I suspected it was a caffeine dependency, but now I know it was related to my sleep deprivation. Once I got the rest I needed, I found it surprisingly easy to go cold turkey with the coffee and soda.

I had little energy or motivation to do much beyond what was required. I was also annoyed by one of my lower eyelids twitching when in a stressful situation, or when I was exceptionally tired.

Waking up is like the fog in your head clearing. I didn't realize how miserable I was while sleep deprived.

I wish you success.

I was diagnosed with sleep apnea about 16 months ago, so the experience is still very fresh in my mind. I did not start CPAP therapy until it was far too late to avoid losing my job.

For the previous couple years, my performance at work was falling off, and I was constantly flirting with burn-out. I was getting poor performance reviews and couldn't figure out why. I thought one of my problems was that my hearing was going, so I got fitted with hearing aids (I also suffer from mild hearing loss - more on that near the end of this story.)

My work performance improved slightly, but something else was going on. For some time, my wife had complained about my snoring. It was so bad that we were sleeping in separate rooms.

Sure, I was always tired, but I thought that was normal. It sneaks up on you. A parallel example would be that you can't specify a date when your eyesight got bad enough that you first needed glasses. You might be able to recall the date you got your first set of glasses though.

I had received as a gift an MP3 player that could also record 4 hours of sound in one take. About 2 years after receiving my hearing aids, I decided to record myself at night. That recording was extremely enlightening. Life changing enlightening. Based on that recording alone, I was convinced I had a breathing problem while trying to sleep. It was extremely uncomfortable listening to myself struggling to breath. If my wife had made such a recording years before, I would have acted in it then. Unfortunately, all she did was complain about it, and wake me up when I was snoring.

A week later I spent the night in a sleep lab and was diagnosed with sleep apnea. After another night in the lab, I had a prescription for a CPAP machine (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, Pressure=8cm water). This is essentially a low pressure blower that (in my case) gently inflates my lungs without any effort on my part. I have to exhale against the pressure, but its less than blowing up a balloon. I find the experience relaxing. Humans are much stronger at exhaling than they are inhaling.

After a month of using the machine, I started feeling a lot better (you don't recover from the long term sleep debt in one night - 2 to 6 weeks seems to be common). For about the next week, I was really angry about how I had been treated at work (I suspect this is a common effect following treatment for a wide range of medical disorders such as waking from a coma.)

About that time, I lost my job due to poor performance. (The performance issues were real, but the reasons they cited for my release were bogus - they gave me a problem that could not be resolved within the framework I was allowed to work in.)

I wonder at the obituaries in the newspapers. The cause of death is often given as natural causes, but I suspect many are really breathing issues related to snoring.

After starting CPAP therapy, I found that perhaps 5-10% of the people about me use CPAPs, and found about others second hand. Two people I know have started CPAP therapy in the last year. CPAP machines may be much more common than the general population is aware.

I'll likely continue using the CPAP for the rest of my life. Surgical options don't always work, can not be undone, and are often not permanent anyway. CPAP therapy always works, and can be easily adjusted.

I still wear hearing aids, but I find that I don't need them all the time like I used to. The hearing loss is real. I frequently wear them turned off (the sound of my own typing drives me up the wall) and turn them on when needed. I suspect my brain is still recovering from years of sleep apnea, but it is improving.

I was a submarine sailor for a time, more than 20 years ago. My information is badly dated, but may still apply in this situation.

I suspect that these questions were intended to probe ship-to-ship encounters, rather than who on each ship is responsible for what (see #27283627, below).

From a ship-to-ship encounter point of view:

1) When one vessel is visible, and the other is not, the invisible vessel is responsible for avoiding collisions. This also applies to stealth aircraft.

2) I have my doubts that the surface ship would have been aware of the submarine, even in full daylight. Additionally, the surface vessel does not include as one of its priorities monitoring subsurface activity.

3) I don't think the average sub sailor would have heard noisy diesel engines from a couple hundred feet (300ft, 100m), but I might be wrong. Certainly, Sonar should have been aware that they were in very close proximity, even if they couldn't specify a good range. The sub navigator should have provided ample spacing between ships to prevent contact, but this could have been overridden by practicing close proximity maneuvers (a very likely possibility).

We had a report that one of our WinCE-based prototypes crashed and would not restart Wed (Dec 30).

Initially, we thought that it may have been due to an impatient user removing power during a normal shutdown, and may have occurred during a write to the flash memory drive. We can't tell exactly what happened from here (U.S.) as the prototype is in Europe.

And then again, it may just be co-incidental....

In space, no one can hear your hard drive fail....