To be honest, this entire incident is a disaster. It's awful to sit and watch the media coverage of the oil spill and see all the devastation or hear all the stories about the press conferences and how the CEO claims that he "just wants his life back". Really? How can you even conceivably think that you would get your life back after this? Not saying he's solely to blame, but the CEO by definition is the person who represents the company and all it's flaws. If you didn't think you were cut out for the job, why take it? Why sit back in your fancy office making big bucks all this time if you couldn't stand up and be a man when things go wrong?
It really comes down to the commercial that thetruth.com had out for the longest time about tobacco. The commercial asked people if they could be the CEO of a company that kills millions, etc. These are things you really must think about when taking a job like that. You are the person who represents the company for better or worse. It's your face that people think of when things are good and/or bad. It's a heavy burden to bare in times like this, but that is why they pay you so much money. The expect you to make the company look good and to be able to turn a bad situation around, any way you can.
It is just upsetting that a guy who gets paid way more than he's worth can't even do the job he's paid to do when it comes to tough times. I am disappointed. I am NOT saying that he is to blame, but that he is the person who is suppose to take the blame, and turn the public eye from himself to helping fix the problem. He has seriously failed.
On another note, the people who are blaming BP, I think are a little out of bounds. Since when do we blame a company for all the things that go wrong in the world? Granted, they were greedy and pushed the limits, they did things that were unethical and just wrong... since when is that something that Americans don't understand? It's been happening for years, it's the way our government set it up. There have been numerous companies that have done what they wanted for money and/or power to get what or where they wanted.
Not only have there been companies in the past who have done this very same (all be it, shady) thing, there have also been companies that have taken lives of people as well. When a coal mine caves in and kills a handful of hardworking coalminers, we don't blame the company... When our soldiers don't come back from overseas, we don't blame the Army (or whatever branch they were involved with). Why are we blaming BP solely for this? Again, I am not saying they don't deserve the blame or at least a portion of it, just trying to throw out there that rather than pointing the finger of blame, perhaps we would be better served to work together and try to get past this.
If people put in the time and effort to help fix the problem rather than blaming and making terrible jokes at the people involved, maybe more would get done. Perhaps if we all chipped in, in our own way things would get cleaned up, patched or even perhaps we would have no need for oil anymore (that is the ultimate goal, I believe).
So here's my thinking... Rather than pointing the finger like some people are doing in this terrible time, why not pick up a rag and start doing our part to clean up the mess. After we've taken care of the environmental impact of this then we should start to worry about the legal aspect of what has happened. Only then should we worry about who is really to blame.
Because if Enron is any indication, this could be an ongoing finger-pointing fiasco for years to come.
Think about it.
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