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Re:Volkswagen plans 30K job cuts worldwide by odabaxok on Friday November 18, 2016 @07:28AM (#12986253)
If that matters the former CEO immediately accepted responsibility and resigned in 2015.

I believe, these are further consequences of the budget cut, they are NOT blaming low level engineers for the emission scandal...

Re:Volkswagen plans 30K job cuts worldwide by st3v3r on Friday November 18, 2016 @01:53PM (#12989120)
Resigned with a golden parachute worth more than you or I will probably see in our lifetimes. Tell me, what actual consequences did that CEO face?
Re:Volkswagen plans 30K job cuts worldwide by acd10j on Friday November 18, 2016 @07:41AM (#12986312)
Re:Volkswagen plans 30K job cuts worldwide by odabaxok on Friday November 18, 2016 @08:06AM (#12986427)
I do not know the details, but Horn - who blames the engineers in your article - was fired too, two weeks before your article was published (with two other executives): http://www.autoblog.com/2015/09/24/horn-hackenburg-hatz-fire...
Re:Volkswagen plans 30K job cuts worldwide by lima on Friday November 18, 2016 @08:02AM (#12986406)
What if it's true?
Re:Volkswagen plans 30K job cuts worldwide by andygates on Friday November 18, 2016 @09:49AM (#12987078)
VAG said they had come clean, and now there's another software defeat going through in some Audi models now. Another rogue engineer? That hardly seems credible. Corporate bad faith and malfeasance? They're already in the thick of it.
Re:Volkswagen plans 30K job cuts worldwide by mathgeek on Friday November 18, 2016 @07:35AM (#12986281)
There may not be explicit blame, but the budget cuts are fallout from the scandal. Thus there are people losing their jobs while other people with (likely) more culpability for the scandal remain employed.

A simpler way to put it would be that there is at least one person with no role in those decisions that is losing their job because of the scandal.