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They will blame some small man to avoid prosecution of higher staff. I bet this was done off the records - so the Software Engineer manager have no proof this w
by funkyy 11y ago
They will blame some small man to avoid prosecution of higher staff. I bet this was done off the records - so the Software Engineer manager have no proof this was ordered or suggested by upper management. At worst they will get 1-2 engineers arrested while they will move quietly to other companies that will be willing to use their experience and connections.
- bro-stick 11y agoOf course. Fall guy 101. Not some tinfoilness, but expedient politics of surviving corporate death pits. The sort of shops where most every discussion is double top-secret: happens in-person, quietly, behind closed doors and the email trail is kept to strictly vague coordination details, at most, since it's subject to discovery. Oh and information is hoarded, because details create weaknesses.
- usrusr 11y agoArrested? Remember that cars don't pollute, drivers do or something like that. At the end of the day, what the engineers in the trenches did was design a device that is illegal to sell in some other country. It is correct that the blame goes to a place higher up, where the decision to sell was made. Which is what is actually happening at Volkswagen proper. The surprising part is that the VW USA CEO seems to be completely out of the loop about this.