Can this Apple get thrown out of the tree?

In the article it says, "the company has strict social media rules to protect its commercial reputation, and forbids the posting of any negative comments on any social media site or social network." Whether or not the post was private that's the rule in plain English that the employee violated. A company has to protect it's image and if so if someone who works for them begins putting them down people may take him for a expert because he works for the company. This would make people believe the negative comments and hurt the company.