Comment by krapp

>There's no two ways of looking at it. A wrong termination date entered somewhere doesn't change the contract.

It does seem like there are two ways of looking at it.

As I read the article, the employee's manager needed to renew his contract, which he failed to do. And this is a literal quote by OP from the article:

    "When my contract expired, the machine took over and fired me."

The wrong termination date wasn't entered, the correct, existing termination date wasn't updated in time. Those are two different scenarios.