The issue focused on just one job.

"The issue is that he's had the history of being an irascible and difficult person to work with and that's had a cost to the company," said Bill Glick, a technology expert with the technology website PC World.

Hobbs is on his second full-time job in the company, as the company's technology director, and he was given a two-year contract to help run the company's technology technology program, said Bill King