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Well the buck stops somewhere, right? Unless the CEO personally ordered it (which seems unlikely), someone somewhere below the CEO ordered this. You will event
by moduspol 9y ago
Well the buck stops somewhere, right?
Unless the CEO personally ordered it (which seems unlikely), someone somewhere below the CEO ordered this. You will eventually find someone down the chain who cannot identify a superior that pressured them to do it.
That in no way implies he's covering for superiors out of loyalty to VW.
- vesinisa 9y agoLiterally right above the paragraph I quoted says Schmidt sought lenience on the grounds that he was ordered to lie to the regulators by his supervisors and a company lawyer. Looks like in his own mind his only crime was being loyal to a corrupt foreman. Classically German.
- moduspol 9y ago> In a letter to the judge before the sentencing, Mr. Schmidt said his loyalty to Volkswagen had led him to be “misused by my own company.” He cited a meeting in 2015 with a senior official at the California Air Resources Board at which he concealed the existence of software that allowed Volkswagen to cheat on emission tests. > “A script, or talking points, I was directed to follow for that meeting was approved by management level supervisors at VW, including a high-ranking in-house lawyer, ” he said in the letter. “Regrettably, I agreed to follow it.” None of that implies he was ordered to lie to regulators. It says he concealed software and followed a script, not that the people who wrote or approved the script knew he would be lying to regulators by following that script, or that he was concealing software.