Lame!

 

Just cause they had a massive oil spill ACCIDENT they fire the guy? Like he or just about anybody else had ANY control over what happened. Hitting a methane bubble should have zero impact on the guys career. It happened, the thing blew up, they fixed it. This is just BP tryin to save its ass... "Don't sue usssss.... we even fired our CEO that's how much it means to usssss! :violin: "

"In a mark of faith in its outgoing leader, BP said it planned to recommend him for a non-executive board position at its Russian joint venture and will pay him 1.045 million pounds ($1.6 million), a year's salary"

 

Yes i'd like to be fired to

its all for showww... ya lets fire the CEO and hope america buys it :roll:

This is standard operating procedure to deflect criticisms and legal issues.

 

Someone has to go under the bus so that when people complain, you can point to said roadkill as the problem and say "we've taken care of the problem".

 

Meanwhile, said roadkill gets a golden parachute and disappears from the headlines.

He's still got a job within the company.

 

I think there's speculation about whether or not BP is behind the release of that Lebanese bomber...

The new CEO is an American from Mississippi. Everything is all better now.

The new CEO is an American from Mississippi. Everything is all better now.

Wasnt a firing. just a smart move to shut the politicians up.

 

He is still walking away with 18 million or so from his deferred comp.

It was not so much based on the fact that there was a spill but was based on his inability to accurately articulate all that the company was and was not doing to address the issue in a swift and satisfactory manner. Another executive could just as easily turned this crisis around so that it bit the EPA hard on the azz with language like "THEY are preventing us from fixing this, THEY are preventing us from cleaning this up quickly and effectively..."

 

And as others have said or intimated - "the public" (read the media) demanded the firing of the big bad corporate CEO.

Yep, Its all show. " See, we are really doing something for you America " But, nothing really changes, just ," Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"