tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post6613681693403269609..comments2024-02-15T15:25:04.287-08:00Comments on Losing the War on Humor: BP Plugging Oil Leak: The Unsustainability of Cheap Labor and Cheap Oil2Truthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06621258620190540140noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post-52486012240368441792010-05-20T12:04:18.060-07:002010-05-20T12:04:18.060-07:00Hustling Neo-frat boy corporate state mantra:
pro...Hustling Neo-frat boy corporate state mantra:<br /><br />profitability/efficiency = cheap labor/low cost<br /><br />safety/quality = CEOs/investment bankers<br /><br />Whether a lack of scientific leadership and oversight or the stress of being understaffed or both, care for quality in product and service delivery has gone the way of the dinosaur in exchange for corporate profitability.<br /><br />Technology driven companies used to be founded and actually run by real scientists and not led by poseurs with MBAs and wasteful data mining obsessions like they are now. The neo frat boy corporate state is in it for short term wins instead of long term quality product/service delivery planning.<br /><br />BP had the wrong diagram to close the blowout preventer. <br /><br />Where in the business process chain did that deadly and costly negligence get bungled? Maybe if BP had let go 4,999 workers and just kept ONE competent, trusted and valued worker on the team, this wouldn't have happened. Or maybe they should have kept all 5,000, who knows? <br /><br />Too bad that that even the high stakes oil industry has been hijacked by the spreadsheet driven, neo frat boy corporate state that has ruined other industries.2Truthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06621258620190540140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post-66607106113211481982010-05-19T21:08:44.846-07:002010-05-19T21:08:44.846-07:00Speaking of cutting corners, BP is a big outsource...Speaking of cutting corners, BP is a big outsourcer to Indian Wipro, Tata, and Infosys.It was reported on April 27 BP cut 5,000 jobs and saved $4 billion in operating expenses,but there was no mention about whether those 5,000 job cuts were US IT workers and engineers.<br /><br />Anonymous Tipline: If you work for BP or a contractor on a rig in the Gulf, or anywhere else, we'd like to hear from you. Tell us about your work conditions, your management, and your observations of what is happening. We will not publish your identity. Call 917-512-0254, fax documents to 212-514-5250 or e-mail Abrahm.Lustgarten<br />@propublica.org.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post-57585909396901665092010-05-19T01:17:16.833-07:002010-05-19T01:17:16.833-07:00The main story here is BP's interest in limit...The main story here is BP's interest in limiting its liability in the long run is at hand. <br /><br />What do they know about the flow rate indicators regarding the actual the extent of the spill? Is it really their stated 5000 barrels a day or ...100,000 barrels a day?Dunedinnoreply@blogger.com