Comment by worik
6 days ago
> Being fired is not being held accountable, it is being terminated
Termination is the end result of a process
It is not unreasonable to think that is an accountability process of some sort...
6 days ago
> Being fired is not being held accountable, it is being terminated
Termination is the end result of a process
It is not unreasonable to think that is an accountability process of some sort...
You're talking about being accountable to shareholders
I am talking about being accountable to society
What do you recommend then instead of losing your job and by extension the ability to affect society in a big way?
Jail, mostly
I just think that "our company got caught doing seriously illegal / negligent shit but don't worry we fired the CEO who oversaw all of it after paying them 10s of millions of dollars" is really not a punishment to either the company or the CEO
It's kind of a rigged system that ensures no one is held accountable
Oh, "the company" gets fined a fraction of the value they gained from behaving illegally, the shareholders get a ton of money, the executive team gets a golden parachute, and society gets fucked
Honestly we should be putting people to death for this behavior, instead many of us applaud what great business sense everyone involved has