It doesn't even matter if it was the engineers, the fact that management is not taking the blame itself is utterly despicable. I'm certain the claims of this ar

It doesn't even matter if it was the engineers, the fact that management is not taking the blame itself is utterly despicable. I'm certain the claims of this article are true, but let's pretend it was a bunch of rogue engineers' and compliance people's conspiracy. It is the responsibility of the company to take responsibility for ALL actions of ALL employees, whether they were known at the time or not. That's the whole point of being an executive. That's the whole point also for people who are not executives. Most engineers could start their own firms but choose to work for others for a number of reasons, not the least of which is minimizing risk. One of the major risks that one minimizes through employment is that of being sued or holding blame in exactly a situation like this. VW knows this, yet they're still trying to make it seem like this wasn't the fault of their upper management and executives. They're still trying to shirk the blame when they should be firing their whole upper management employees and executives. There is no excuse for not doing that, and the CEO quitting is not enough in this case. To blame it on engineer and compliance workers is absolutely despicable and irresponsible.