Dear Tony Hayward: You Do Not Have Your Life Back

[babylonsister]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20008245-503544.html

Dear Tony Hayward: You Do Not Have Your Life Back
Posted by Daniel Farber 13 comments


BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward sits aboard his yacht Bob, during the JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race circumnavigating the Isle of Wight, Saturday, June 19, 2010.
(Credit: AP/Chris Ison, PA)


Dear Mr. Hayward,

Following your rope-a-dope, evasive testimony during a House Committee on Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on Thursday, you have offered the public more insight into your character — and the wisdom (sic) of your public relations advisors.

Understandably, after 60 days of dealing with the worst environmental disaster in American history (which continues to ravage the Gulf Coast's economy), the death of 11 rig workers, and the downward spiral of your company's assets and reputation, as well as having the U.S. government after your hide, you want to take a break, get a bit of your life back.

Fine. Watch the World Cup. Spend time with your family. Have a barbecue.

But don't participate in a yacht race on your 52-foot craft bought with oil money. It just sends the wrong message to the "small" people whose livelihoods have been wrecked by the millions of gallons of crude still leaking from your company's damaged well head.

Remember what your chairman of the board, Carl-Henric Svanberg, said to reporters in Washington on Wednesday:

"I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies or don't care, but that is not the case with BP. We care about the small people."

Svanberg later apologized, offering that he spoke "clumsily." But your apologies are becoming increasingly hollow as you demonstrate a kind of arrogance, or tone-deafness, in your actions.

As Rep. Waxman admonished you during your testimony, "You're not taking responsibility, Mr. Hayward. ... You're kicking the can down the road."

In handing over day-to-day operations for the oil spill response and cleanup to BP's managing director Bob Dudley, you may have been kicked down the road.

But make no mistake: You do not have your life back, and you won't until the leak is plugged, the people of the Gulf have been made whole, and the environment restored. Remember, the job of the CEO is to share the glory and shoulder the blame.

Sincerely,

Dan Farber

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Dan Farber hits it out of the goddamn park.

Thank you, my dear babylonsister, for bringing this to us.

Recommended, just because.

I hope Hayward NEVER gets his life back.

[blondeatlast]

2. I won't shed a single tear if he never gets his life back. Hundreds of thousands

of Gulf Coast residents, plauds uncountable marine life, will not get theirs back.

Sweat it out, lowlife scum--and tell me just who is the "smaller" person. :mad:

[Mimosa]

3. Mr. Hayward just doesn't give a damn

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100619/D9GEI7UG0.html


Excerpt:

VENICE, La. (AP) - Just when it seemed Gulf residents couldn't get any more outraged about the massive oil spill fouling their coastline, word came Saturday that BP's CEO was taking time off to attend a glitzy yacht race in England.

Tony Hayward's latest public relations gaffe didn't sit well with people in the U.S. who have seen their livelihoods ruined by the massive two-month oil spill.

"Man, that ain't right. None of us can even go out fishing, and he's at the yacht races," said Bobby Pitre, 33, who runs a tattoo shop in Larose, La. "I wish we could get a day off from the oil, too."

As social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook lit up with anger, BP spokespeople rushed to defend Hayward, who has drawn withering criticism as the public face of his company's halting efforts to stop the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Robert Wine, a BP spokesman at the company's Houston headquarters, said it's the first break Hayward has had since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and setting off the undersea gusher.

"He's spending a few hours with his family at a weekend," Wine said Saturday. "I'm sure that everyone would understand that."

Not Mike Strohmeyer, who owns the Lighthouse Lodge in Venice, on Louisiana's southern tip, who said Hayward was "just numb."

[CountAllVotes]

4. Hayward was "just numb."

yep he is numb alright! He needs to sober the hell up now!

What a freak!

JAIL THIS CRIMINAL NOW!

:kick:

[HipChick]

5. He has been demoted...no longer has managerial responsibility..

http://politic365.com/2010/06/18/bp-ceo-hayward-demoted-relieved-of-duties/