US Investigators are looking into why the workers messed up causing BP's rig to blow

[Robbien]

Spill probe eyes anomalies in crew's response
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66I0AF20100719?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29

(Reuters) - U.S. authorities probing BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are looking into why workers missed signs of an impending explosion and have drawn up a list of more than 20 anomalies in the crew's response to them, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

Investigators are also looking at decisions made by employees of Transocean Ltd, the rig's owner, and disagreements between workers from the two companies, the paper reported on its website, citing an internal document put together by investigators.

Some time ago someone here said "watch, they are going to blame all this on one of the workers. Just wait and see."

Looks like that someone was right.

[Angry Dragon]

1. A person in a suit could never commit a crime

it has to be the one with the dirty hands......

business as usual ...... pisses me off

[metapunditedgy]

2. The person at the top giving orders is never responsible for the outcome. n/t

[LatteLibertine]

3. It's more likely

crews reported oddities and were threatened into ignoring them. ie "If you don't want to do your job we'll get someone who will."

[HowHasItComeToThis]

5. BINGO

[Cleita]

4. They are going to blame this on the workers?

How cowardly of the criminals.

[bahrbearian]

6. Didn't Rumsfeld teach us there is always a few bad apples.

[dkf]

7. Oh for goodness sakes. Are we supposed to not consider it could possibly the workers faults because

They are never wrong? If there was at atmosphere of intimidation obviously that will be brought up. Any worker who does not defend him/herself from unfair attacks is part of the problem so they have a duty to speak up too.

[JoeyT]

9. And how many times have you been a whistleblower

and risked having your children go hungry because you got fired and can no longer get a job?

The corruption between the regulators and regulated in that industry is well documented. Speaking up would only have gotten the people fired and blacklisted, nothing more.

[blindpig]

8. Always gotta be a 'bad actor' somewhere.......

bad bankers, bad workers, bad politicians......is there a pattern here? Perhaps the 'badness' is institutional, perhaps a culture which puts profits above all and rewards such behavior might have something to do with it, huh?

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