20th June 2010, 10:07 AM
Exxon has cleaned up their act, with a great safety record in recent years. If BP, years from now, goes through the same internal changes and becomes safe, any boycott can end. If they don't survive, too bad.
The thing is, chains of command where a company's leaders can be directly shown to have created the culture or general policy of operations really don't deserve to keep their positions once these things happen. Someone who steals a car gets more jail time than someone who steals the future of an entire section of coastland. Hmm...
The thing is, chains of command where a company's leaders can be directly shown to have created the culture or general policy of operations really don't deserve to keep their positions once these things happen. Someone who steals a car gets more jail time than someone who steals the future of an entire section of coastland. Hmm...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)