[ruleabidinguser]

The worker goes to jail? What about the exec

[true_religion]

This worker is the executive. He was in charge of the entire development of the project, and was a key decision maker in the later coverups.

They're calling him an engineer out of respect for his professional qualifications as such things are immensely important in Germany. Because he was an engineer, he has a duty to not act unethically within his professional capacity, and is shamed more than a mere MBA-style executive would be.

[notyourday]

Every single boss that the engineer had ( all the way to the CEO ) should be go to jail for that if that engineer went to jail.

[sqeaky]

From having read the article I know that exactly that situation is likely the case. This guys some kind of executive engineer and several other executives were charged and just haven't gone all the way through processing yet.

[aianus]

Why? Is Pizza Hut's CEO criminally responsible if I run a red light to deliver a pizza because I'm afraid of being late?

Edit: Please explain how the VW case is any different than my analogy

[organsnyder]

If the CEO ties your employment to unrealistic expectations of delivery speed and builds a culture of recklessness, sure.

[B1FF_PSUVM]

Actually, he should be. Unless he can show you had the training and the incentives to not do that, so it was entirely your fault.

If you're afraid with a reason, someone else did that to you.

(Those people have spreadsheets with everything weighed. Raise their costs, they'll cut out the psycho.)

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Obeying the traffic laws is your responsibility, not the company's.

Otherwise the next time the CEO asks you to destroy the competition you'll say that he didn't specifically told you to not actually take that literally so it isn't your fault that you shot a guy in the head.

[smallhands]

I do not understand?, if vw post huge profit the execs will all get fat bonus .in the case poor sob did all this behind his managers back ?.

[aianus]

If the customer is happy and all the pizzas get delivered on time the Pizza Hut execs will get fat bonuses too.

However, no matter how unrealistic the delivery estimates are, the execs are not responsible if I run red lights or speed to meet those requirements. There is obviously no legal liability on the CEO unless he explicitly instructed or encouraged me to do so.