I can't believe he was actually crying over this whole thing.
I hope his next performance review will note his apparent lack of planning and problem solving skills. It sounds to me as though Intel should stop sending him on trips around the world, since it seems to be too much for him.
My husband told me that on his last business trip to Hong Kong that some of the men that went with him went out with clients drinking on the last night before their morning flight out. The party didn't break up till early in the morning hours. He said one of the men totally missed his flight the next morning and the other men that made the flight looked like total hell and were all miserable and passed out for the whole flight home. I'm wondering if this guy doesn't want to admit that he was just hung over and out of it and that is why he acted so stupid.