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I see a lot of people hoping for someone to go to jail. Who should go? How about the CEO who made a rational policy of reporting vehicles stolen that aren't r
by rukittenme 7y ago
I see a lot of people hoping for someone to go to jail. Who should go?
How about the CEO who made a rational policy of reporting vehicles stolen that aren't returned within a given time frame?
How about the engineers who created and approved a system with a software bug? A piece of software that functioned correctly 99.99969% of the time. That's slightly better than six sigma. How many of you can claim your uptime is that good. 30 cases in 10 million!
How about the product manager who crafted a spec with a hole in its business logic?
How about the front desk clerks who did not fill out the appropriate paperwork after rental upgrades?
How about the stores' managers who actually called the police and filed the reports in accordance with company policy?
How about the HR reps who didn't train employees to use the system correctly?
> Some of these were reported last year, and Hertz found itself paying tens of thousands of dollars in damages to victims in civil cases.
It seems the company is being held civilly liable. Which they should be! If the police shoot innocent people based on accusations then you have a POLICE problem not a Hertz problem (which, of course, never happened in this case).
- kevin_b_er 7y agoThe corporation, through a lot of political greed, is itself a person. Jail the corporate person for its crimes against another person. If a corporation gets rights as a person, it should be held and jailed like a person for its crimes.
- FireBeyond 7y ago> If the police shoot innocent people based on accusations then you have a POLICE problem not a Hertz problem (which, of course, never happened in this case). However, some people spent two weeks in jail while Hertz "resolved" this with the police.
- rukittenme 7y agoPrecisely. Some people. Which means other people didn't have to go to jail because of better police protocols. People are released to await trial all the time. The fact that they weren't says a lot about policing in some places in America.