I'm not surprised that BP isn't in Jackson, MS today at the MS House of Representatives House Special Committee's hearing on the oil spill in The Gulf. Early on the bigwigs over at BP decided to listen to a bunch of lawyers advocating the company CYA (Cover Your Mule) rather than listen to their Customer Service Dept who would have advocated immediate acceptance of responsibility and proactive information releasing.
Anyone who's ever been in a long term relationship knows that when you mess up big time with your significant other the route that will get you the lightest punishment is to tell them the worst up front and accept full responsibility for it, then as news gets better your S.O. will be more relieved and less upset with you.
The other way to handle it is to go the BP route and I'm sure most people know how that one goes. When you first know there's a problem you try to handle before the other person ever finds out about it but the problem keeps growing. So you decide to gently break it to them, you tell them there's a little hiccup but you're on it and that there's no reason to worry. But the problem says, "Oh no, you don't get away that easy. You can't stop me now!" As the problem refuses to go away and instead keeps growing, you just tell lie after lie, half truth after half truth until finally BOOM! Everyone's covered in B.S. and pointing the finger squarely at you because you kept saying everything was under control until the very end.
If only the execs at BP had re-watched The Sorcerer's Apprentice from Disney's Fantasia, today would be different. 49 days later we wouldn't be marveling at BP's lies and subterfuge instead, we would all be focused on mitigating this horrible disaster.
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