Take the number of car “rigged” by Volkswagen (11 million), multiply it by three, and convert all in euro: well, that is the “golden handshake” with which the former ceo resigned yesterday, Martin Winterkorn will return home. 33 million in total.
Specifically, for the man who says he’s not “doing anything” and he learned of Dieselgate from newspapers, there will be a Board from 28.6 million. And what emerges from the annual report, which Bloomberg says, “does not write down conditions for which the amount might not be paid. plus probably 2 years wage (is a manager leaving at the end) that bring things to 33 Million Euros.
So basically the guy will bring home more money I could do in several life just because he granted his company the biggest car scandal in recent history, an image damage that will be very hard to be recovered, some financial problems and of course a lot of money wasted into the sink.
guys this is great, Can I apply for a role of manager in VW, I can do even worse for far less money, I promise 🙂
I am truly sorry if the guys didn’t know, I mean is just the CEO, it has nothing to do with the life of the company he is ruling, no responsibility at all, as well there will be no responsible in all the management chain, probably the guilty is just the technician who wrote the faulty code …
I wonder if any of hose guys will feel any moral and ethic responsibility for every worker that will lose his job because of their action. probably not, since they use to judge themselves in a closed circle.
Again let me stress out that what was worse, in this affair, is that nobody made a correct risk analysis if would worth not to be compliant or not. if the cost is way more high than the benefits it simply does not make any sense to cheat. so it is not only morally, ethically and legally wrong, but also wrong from a management point of view.
But for being a bad manager people got 33 million Euro, payment probably related to the level of damage they did to the company, why managers should care? at the end someone else will pay the bill.
Take the number of car “rigged” by Volkswagen (11 million), multiply it by three, and convert all in euro: well, that is the “golden handshake” with which the former ceo resigned yesterday, Martin Winterkorn will return home. 33 million in total.
Specifically, for the man who says he’s not “doing anything” and he learned of Dieselgate from newspapers, there will be a Board from 28.6 million. And what emerges from the annual report, which Bloomberg says, “does not write down conditions for which the amount might not be paid. plus probably 2 years wage (is a manager leaving at the end) that bring things to 33 Million Euros.
So basically the guy will bring home more money I could do in several life just because he granted his company the biggest car scandal in recent history, an image damage that will be very hard to be recovered, some financial problems and of course a lot of money wasted into the sink.
guys this is great, Can I apply for a role of manager in VW, I can do even worse for far less money, I promise 🙂
I am truly sorry if the guys didn’t know, I mean is just the CEO, it has nothing to do with the life of the company he is ruling, no responsibility at all, as well there will be no responsible in all the management chain, probably the guilty is just the technician who wrote the faulty code …
I wonder if any of hose guys will feel any moral and ethic responsibility for every worker that will lose his job because of their action. probably not, since they use to judge themselves in a closed circle.
Again let me stress out that what was worse, in this affair, is that nobody made a correct risk analysis if would worth not to be compliant or not. if the cost is way more high than the benefits it simply does not make any sense to cheat. so it is not only morally, ethically and legally wrong, but also wrong from a management point of view.
But for being a bad manager people got 33 million Euro, payment probably related to the level of damage they did to the company, why managers should care? at the end someone else will pay the bill.
Ahmed Mohamed, 14, shows a photographer some of the electronics components in the bedroom that doubles as his workshop at his family’s Irving home. At left is Ahmed’s 3-year-old sister, Fatima Mohamed.
There is no doubt that Ahmed Mohamed is a smart guy. He “create” a clock assembling some electronic stuffs at only 14, while most of our kids are, more or less, able to chat and write silliness on Facebook.
But his story is quite interesting, you can find on the web a lot on this.
To make a long story short apparently the guy bring the handmade clock to school, waiting for praise and compliments. The teacher instead call the police, and the little boy is arrested, handcuffed and brought to prison.
Now let be clear here, I have some hard times reading the news to believe that someone could really thought the boy was bringing a bomb to school. I understand that this can be hard to believe, come on he is muslin and brown, but only a moron could have thought the gear was a bomb. beside if they were really thinking the boy was bringing a bomb they managed it in the most crazy, stupid way possible.
if you really are suspecting it is a bomb you call bomb squad, evacuate the building and take extraordinary precautions instead of waiting in a room with the kid and the bomb for the police to come, bring the kid handcuffed in the car with the bomb, and take pictures.
So it seem quite clear to me that the incompetence level showed by the English teacher, the police and the community is overwhelming. Even if we don’t want to make claims on islamophobia or racism the overall episode scream “dumb” and “danger” not because of the kid clock but because of the way this thing have been managed by the adults. I would be not feel secure knowing that a suspect bomb would be managed that way by police. it that would have been a real bomb it could have turned on a massacre.
But if they didn’t thought it was a bomb, so why all this? why taking the kid handcuffed, while all those rumors? did they wanted to show their white pride in front of the world?
I am not thinking they wanted purposely do a demonstrative act against muslin community, brown people, but , worse, they did the silliest and easiest equation:
muslin + electronic handmade gear = bomb
The homemade digital clock that led to Ahmed Mohamed’s arrest (Irving Police Department)
and they managed it in the worst way possible because they simply didn’t care, and don’t know how to handle this. They didn’t care if something will stay in the kid records, they didn’t even care to look stupid to the people who analyze this thing, since they know most of the people will simply stop to the first title of the first news (kid arrested for a hoax bomb) or the silliest justification as we did to protect the people.
The truth alas is quite different, if this is the way the protect people I would be really scared, because if something here is clear is the incredible sequence of dumb act performed there by the ones who should protect people.
A bunch of very stupid acts:
Stupid for how they handled a “suspect” risky situation, jeopardizing all people around, this is not how you deal with a bomb
Stupid because if they realized the bomb was not a bomb they should have questioned the teacher, since the boy never claimed it was a bomb but always claimed it was a hand-made electronic watch (which is not so dangerous, I suppose). Beside I am wondering how a hoax bomb should look like
Stupid because they do not protected the identity and the privacy of a kid, exposing him and his family to a useless ordeal, the pictures of the kid in handcuff will stay on the net for ever, and not sure about any records on his arrest and detention
Ahmed Mohamed, 14, shows a photographer some of the electronics components in the bedroom that doubles as his workshop at his family’s Irving home. At left is Ahmed’s 3-year-old sister, Fatima Mohamed.
There is no doubt that Ahmed Mohamed is a smart guy. He “create” a clock assembling some electronic stuffs at only 14, while most of our kids are, more or less, able to chat and write silliness on Facebook.
But his story is quite interesting, you can find on the web a lot on this.
To make a long story short apparently the guy bring the handmade clock to school, waiting for praise and compliments. The teacher instead call the police, and the little boy is arrested, handcuffed and brought to prison.
Now let be clear here, I have some hard times reading the news to believe that someone could really thought the boy was bringing a bomb to school. I understand that this can be hard to believe, come on he is muslin and brown, but only a moron could have thought the gear was a bomb. beside if they were really thinking the boy was bringing a bomb they managed it in the most crazy, stupid way possible.
if you really are suspecting it is a bomb you call bomb squad, evacuate the building and take extraordinary precautions instead of waiting in a room with the kid and the bomb for the police to come, bring the kid handcuffed in the car with the bomb, and take pictures.
So it seem quite clear to me that the incompetence level showed by the English teacher, the police and the community is overwhelming. Even if we don’t want to make claims on islamophobia or racism the overall episode scream “dumb” and “danger” not because of the kid clock but because of the way this thing have been managed by the adults. I would be not feel secure knowing that a suspect bomb would be managed that way by police. it that would have been a real bomb it could have turned on a massacre.
But if they didn’t thought it was a bomb, so why all this? why taking the kid handcuffed, while all those rumors? did they wanted to show their white pride in front of the world?
I am not thinking they wanted purposely do a demonstrative act against muslin community, brown people, but , worse, they did the silliest and easiest equation:
muslin + electronic handmade gear = bomb
The homemade digital clock that led to Ahmed Mohamed’s arrest (Irving Police Department)
and they managed it in the worst way possible because they simply didn’t care, and don’t know how to handle this. They didn’t care if something will stay in the kid records, they didn’t even care to look stupid to the people who analyze this thing, since they know most of the people will simply stop to the first title of the first news (kid arrested for a hoax bomb) or the silliest justification as we did to protect the people.
The truth alas is quite different, if this is the way the protect people I would be really scared, because if something here is clear is the incredible sequence of dumb act performed there by the ones who should protect people.
A bunch of very stupid acts:
Stupid for how they handled a “suspect” risky situation, jeopardizing all people around, this is not how you deal with a bomb
Stupid because if they realized the bomb was not a bomb they should have questioned the teacher, since the boy never claimed it was a bomb but always claimed it was a hand-made electronic watch (which is not so dangerous, I suppose). Beside I am wondering how a hoax bomb should look like
Stupid because they do not protected the identity and the privacy of a kid, exposing him and his family to a useless ordeal, the pictures of the kid in handcuff will stay on the net for ever, and not sure about any records on his arrest and detention
The following companies just betrayed billions of people.
Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, and a handful of other tech companies just began publicly lobbying Congress to pass the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a bill that would give corporations total legal immunity when they share private user data with the government and with each other. Many of these companies have previously claimed to fight for their users’ privacy rights, but by supporting this bill they’ve made it clear that they’ve abandoned that position, and are willing to endanger their users’ security and civil rights in exchange for government handouts and protection.
Tell them why they’re on the wrong side of history.
Thanks for taking action!
We’re up against some of the most powerful corporate lobbyists in the country, but that hasn’t stopped us before. If a critical mass of citizens speak out against CISA, our voices will be impossible to ignore.
What does it take for some of the biggest competitors in the tech industry to put their differences aside and sign a letter endorsing a hugely unpopular surveillance bill? Sweeping legal immunity. Worse, these companies know that their customers hate CISA, and so they’re jumping into the water together, hoping there’s safety in numbers. After all, you can’t blame Microsoft if Apple is doing the same thing, right?
What’s wrong with CISA?
If you’re not up to speed, CISA is a mass surveillance bill posing as a “cybersecurity” bill. Congress has been blindly scrambling to react to the OPM hacks, and their solution is a giveaway to the NSA and giant corporations:
All privacy policies effectively null and void. Companies can share any private user data with the government, without a warrant, as long as the government says it is being used for a “cybersecurity” purpose.
Data is shared with a wide array of government agencies, from the FBI and NSA, to the IRS and local law enforcement.
In exchange, companies are given blanket immunity from civil and criminal laws, like fraud, money laundering, or illegal wiretapping (if a violation was committed or exposed in the process of sharing data).
Companies that play along can get otherwise classified intelligence data from the government, including private information about their competitors.
Internet users demand meaningful cybersecurity legislation, not more mass surveillance. Millions have already spoken out, and there’s still time to send Congress a clear message. Please call your representatives, and share this page to spread the word!
The following companies just betrayed billions of people.
Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, and a handful of other tech companies just began publicly lobbying Congress to pass the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a bill that would give corporations total legal immunity when they share private user data with the government and with each other. Many of these companies have previously claimed to fight for their users’ privacy rights, but by supporting this bill they’ve made it clear that they’ve abandoned that position, and are willing to endanger their users’ security and civil rights in exchange for government handouts and protection.
Tell them why they’re on the wrong side of history.
Thanks for taking action!
We’re up against some of the most powerful corporate lobbyists in the country, but that hasn’t stopped us before. If a critical mass of citizens speak out against CISA, our voices will be impossible to ignore.
What does it take for some of the biggest competitors in the tech industry to put their differences aside and sign a letter endorsing a hugely unpopular surveillance bill? Sweeping legal immunity. Worse, these companies know that their customers hate CISA, and so they’re jumping into the water together, hoping there’s safety in numbers. After all, you can’t blame Microsoft if Apple is doing the same thing, right?
What’s wrong with CISA?
If you’re not up to speed, CISA is a mass surveillance bill posing as a “cybersecurity” bill. Congress has been blindly scrambling to react to the OPM hacks, and their solution is a giveaway to the NSA and giant corporations:
All privacy policies effectively null and void. Companies can share any private user data with the government, without a warrant, as long as the government says it is being used for a “cybersecurity” purpose.
Data is shared with a wide array of government agencies, from the FBI and NSA, to the IRS and local law enforcement.
In exchange, companies are given blanket immunity from civil and criminal laws, like fraud, money laundering, or illegal wiretapping (if a violation was committed or exposed in the process of sharing data).
Companies that play along can get otherwise classified intelligence data from the government, including private information about their competitors.
Internet users demand meaningful cybersecurity legislation, not more mass surveillance. Millions have already spoken out, and there’s still time to send Congress a clear message. Please call your representatives, and share this page to spread the word!
