Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

[snowywolfowl]

Transocean has decided to pay its executives millions of dollars in bonuses as a reward for their exemplary safety record in the past year.

Uh,  with 11 people dead, an oil rig sunk, and untold economic and ecological damage all across the Gulf Coast if this is a great year God help us if they have a merely average year.

Really. This is such a perverse idea its truly sickening. It's one thing to reward disaster with bonuses but to say its for safety is just insulting.

Comments

[bonnie-halfelvn.livejournal.com]

*speechless*

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

But they had 364 days of no incidents. Kudos to them. That's sarcasm, btw. :-/

[snowywolfowl.livejournal.com]

I'm reaching the point of outrage with this type of corporate behaviour. Corporations truly have reached the point of individual profit without individual responsibility, and I for one am tired of it.

[snowywolfowl.livejournal.com]

I think screaming "Hell No! I'd get fired for this, so no way you get a bonus for safety!" is a better response. Being speechless is just going to make things even worse than they already are.

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's completely despicable.

[snowywolfowl.livejournal.com]

The thing that bugs me most about this is that if you, me, or anyone else did something even a fraction this damaging in our respective jobs we'd be turfed out for cause and blacklisted forever.

I honestly wonder since this is the bonus for "safety" if that isn't grounds for a government investigation. If you can be this bad and get a safety bonus how low are the standards in the oil industry? They can't be that high.

To paraphrase something I asked a dangerous coworker once "Just how stupid are these people, because I'm sick to death of being constantly surprised."

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

Too true.