> Davidson knew what could happen to masters who raised safety concerns that weren’t considered serious enough by the company. He had been fired by a prior empl

> Davidson knew what could happen to masters who raised safety concerns that weren’t considered serious enough by the company. He had been fired by a prior employer after an incident with another ship. The steering was bad on that one, and he’d refused an order to take it to port, requiring the company to hire tugboats to drag it there instead. I've been reading about this disaster since it happened, and this is the quote of the article that sums it up entirely to me. Pressure to perform from a bunch of folks who have never set foot on a ship in their life, acting as petty dictators destroying livelihoods over these things seems to be the norm. Then when it goes tits up, let's blame those on the ground - not the folks who made it an economic death penalty to remotely question them over safety issues. It seems the world is going more and more towards this model where folks with no skin in the game get to dictate life and death situations to those on the ground with zero repercussions to themselves when it inevitably goes wrong. Playing the odds is great when you're sitting in an air conditioned office and get to go home at 5pm. Not so much for those who actually have to perform the work. Until we hold the corporate "masters" culpable in such incidents, we will continue to see them escalate as they force those less economically advantaged than themselves into dire situations such as this. So few folks realize the utter absurdity of some 30 year old MBA telling a 50 year old master of trade how to do their job.