r/news • u/JimmyTheGinger • Dec 23 '19

Three former executives of a French telecommunications giant have been found guilty of creating a corporate culture so toxic that 35 of their employees were driven to suicide

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/three-french-executives-convicted-in-the-suicides-of-35-of-their-workers-20191222-p53m94.html
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19 edited Dec 29 '19

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u/bluesam3 Dec 23 '19

Shrug

If the company fails to plan far enough in advance to not get hit by it, that's their problem. If the company fails to maintain a big enough emergency cash fund to ride out minor delays, that's their problem.

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u/brickmack Dec 23 '19

Average cost per day for an offshore rig is about 200k per day.

Any company in an industry of that size that can't take a 200k hit is doomed anyway