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Re:Volkswagen Emissions Investigation Zeroes in on Two Engin... by croon on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:47PM (#10335227)
>There are plenty of ways that upper management can stay in the dark. In the case of Deepwater Horizon, BP didn't make the decisions that lead to the blowout, but created excessive pressure for cost-cutting. In the case of Barings Bank, the managers were genuinely unaware of the rogue trader's fraud, but allowed him to bypass internal controls.

I read this as an exec saying: "Just get it done. I don't care how it's done, and I don't want to know how it's done, just do it."

May have watched too many movies, but whatever is more plausible is usually correct.

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Re:Volkswagen Emissions Investigation Zeroes in on Two Engin... by HCIdivision17 on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:45AM (#10336931)
As an engineer who worked in a couple plants and focused on QC and the like, I damn near have an allergic reaction when any level of management says something like that. I immediately assumed that sort of conversation took place, and it's a strong signal something unethical is afoot - or at least a call for something unethical. ("I'm not saying you should ignore the samples, but sometimes you get different results if you test again, you know?")
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Re:Volkswagen Emissions Investigation Zeroes in on Two Engin... by bitJericho on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @04:05AM (#10337353)
No kidding. And what a lot of people are missing is if the choice was to either cheat or walk, they should have walked.
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