<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bernawil</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  We&amp;#x27;re not animals

  so the engineers went to greener pastures
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...for grazing?</text><parent_chain><item><author>batmaniam</author><text>We should rid of the term &amp;#x27;poaching&amp;#x27;. There&amp;#x27;s no such thing. We&amp;#x27;re not animals, we are free to accept a better offer it comes along. The CEO should have counter offered with something more substantial, but he couldn&amp;#x27;t so the engineers went to greener pastures.</text></item><item><author>tallgiraffe</author><text>Sounds like a few engineers found out that Apple was looking into their company and knowing Apple was interested they took a new gig, meanwhile the CEO got upset and decided to fire the last remaining defecting engineer, who out of goodness of heart actually declined Apple, but gratefully took the offer once he got fired. Although it probably hurts to have your team poached, it sounds like potentially it wasn&amp;#x27;t a great working environment to begin with as the team was happy to jump ship at the first notice.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf]</title><url>https://cases.justia.com/california/court-of-appeal/2020-h044395.pdf</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>blhack</author><text>&amp;gt;but he couldn&amp;#x27;t so the engineers went to greener pastures.&lt;p&gt;She.</text><parent_chain><item><author>batmaniam</author><text>We should rid of the term &amp;#x27;poaching&amp;#x27;. There&amp;#x27;s no such thing. We&amp;#x27;re not animals, we are free to accept a better offer it comes along. The CEO should have counter offered with something more substantial, but he couldn&amp;#x27;t so the engineers went to greener pastures.</text></item><item><author>tallgiraffe</author><text>Sounds like a few engineers found out that Apple was looking into their company and knowing Apple was interested they took a new gig, meanwhile the CEO got upset and decided to fire the last remaining defecting engineer, who out of goodness of heart actually declined Apple, but gratefully took the offer once he got fired. Although it probably hurts to have your team poached, it sounds like potentially it wasn&amp;#x27;t a great working environment to begin with as the team was happy to jump ship at the first notice.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf]</title><url>https://cases.justia.com/california/court-of-appeal/2020-h044395.pdf</url></story>