BP boss Hayward says he was 'demonised' over oil spill

[Octafish]

Source: BBC

The outgoing boss of BP believes he was "demonised and vilified" over the firm's Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis.

But chief executive Tony Hayward - who is to leave the top job in October - accepted that the firm could not move on with him at the helm.

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"This is a very sad day for me personally," Mr Hayward told reporters.

"Whether it is fair or unfair is not the point. I became the public face and was demonised and vilified.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10782429

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How can you not love this guy?

[Warpy]

1. The buck stopped with you, Tony

and you headed the most incredibly poorly managed oil company out there, concentrating on shaving every penny you could off expenses by compromising safety and abandoning the practices that had kept other wells safer.

Tony, you're a monster. I hope you run into a lot of people during your opulent retirement who lost property and business investment on the Gulf.

You deserve to be humiliated in public at least once a day.

[xultar]

2. If he comes up missing, you can bet your ass they stuffed him in a relief well.

[davidinalameda]

14. sleeps with the fishes?

[Cleita]

3. Boohoo!

:cry: Where's my tiny violin. :nopity:

[ibegurpard]

4. i'm sure the 80 million plus severance and bonus package will soothe the sting

[myrna minx]

5. The plight of billionaire polluters.

Won't anyone *think* of the billionaire polluters???? :cry:

[notadmblnd]

6. Just go back to your life and comfort yourself with all those $$ paid to get rid of your ass

You'll get no sympathy from anyone outside of those just like you.

[alsame]

7. Typical sociopath. nt

[Kurovski]

8. The whole of BP is demonised and vilified.

They are vile.

He can get a sack of cash out of the bank and go fuck it. Maybe that will assuage his deep hurt.

Oh brother.

[Skittles]

9. oh for fuck's sake

take your millions and fuck OFF, Tony

[hankthecrank]

10. this guy is just tone deaf

His pension is worth £600,000

He can get this when he is 55. He is only 53

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10782429

[Political_Junkie]

11. What a piece of shit this guy is.

Ass wipe ruins the gulf and then feels sorry for himself.
:nopity:

[onethatcares]

12. he needs the waaaaaaaambulance

the asshole will make more in two years than most of us will make in our lifetimes. fuck him.

[Sal Minella]

13. It's so unfair.

I mean, look at the way Charlie Manson was demonised and vilified over a few dead people, too.

People can be so unreasonable sometimes.

[Downtown Hound]

15. I'm sure he thinks it's all very unfair

He no doubt thinks BP did nothing wrong, and that he did nothing wrong. He's just an honest businessman, ya know? He's only doing this because we force him into it by driving cars, yanno? It's not really his fault. They would have taken more safety precautions if...if..if, the environmentalists had let him. Yeah, that's it. It's everybody else's fault but his.

[Earth_First]

16. Seriously, Tony? You are still around...? Take your life back and STFU!

Meanwhile, there is still endless amount of work to clean up the mess that your negligence helped create through lobbying and corners cut to bypass the remaining laws that you have not purchased away.

Piss off, Tony!

[thelordofhell]

17. Look up "Hubris" in the dictionary

You'll see a picture of this turd.

"This is a very sad day for me personally"
Almost as sad as that day he killed his own workers in an explosion and flooded the gulf with oil.

[rhett o rick]

27. The people killed by his company's neglegence where merely working class.

That doesnt count. Blankenship killed more. If you are a member of the ruling class, you can kill all you want.

[valerief]

18. What a useless sack of shit that assclown is. nt

[metapunditedgy]

19. What, he's not in prison yet? n/t

[rhett o rick]

24. This administration loves him. They wouldnt even put war criminals Bush and Cheney in prison.

Only the underclass goes to prison.

[KeepItReal]

20. Where's the accountability for BP's clowns running USA operations in Texas?

*Those* are the guys with operational control that led to the disaster.

Heyward is the CEO but he's at 30,000 feet"managing" things.

These guys need to be held to account:

July 19 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc’s chief decision maker on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig declined for the second time to give his version of the events that killed 11 workers and triggered the biggest U.S. oil spill in history.

Donald Vidrine, a BP well-site manager, was asked to attend hearings that start today in Kenner, Louisiana, as investigators from the U.S. Coast Guard and Interior Department try to determine what caused the April 20 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Vidrine declined, citing health problems, said Sue Kerver, a Coast Guard spokeswoman.

If the Justice Department finds the actions taken by Vidrine and another BP well manager, Robert Kaluza, led to the explosion, deaths and spill, they could face criminal charges, four former federal prosecutors said. So could other BP employees and managers at rig owner Transocean Ltd. who approved the decisions.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-19/bp-well-boss-won-t-shed-light-on-cause-of-oil-spill.html

[rzemanfl]

21. 5th rec.

[flyarm]

22. Well I was forced to breathe shitty air that smelled like the rottenest onions for days and days

until the smell finally changed and smelled like chemicals for days and days Mr Hayward..and those of us exposed to the smell couldn't even get a FUCKING ANSWER to what we were being exposed to !!!!!!!!!!!!

Will some of us get cancers MR Hayward?
Lung problems Mr Hayward?
Immune problems Mr Hayward?

What fucking toxins were we exposed to , and our children and our seniors and our most vunerable health wise Mr Hayward??

Will our businesses fail Mr Hayward?

Will many lose more and more Jobs Mr Hayward?

Will many lose their homes Mr Hayward?

Will our property Values crash Mr. Hayward?

Will our communities fail Mr Hayward?

What about our national treasures of Wild Life and Marine life Mr Hayward?

And our once Pristine waters Mr Hayward?????????

And our once Pristine beaches Mr Hayward..that even many from your country used to come and enjoy?????????

I know you don't give a fucking rats ass Mr Hayward..and neither do many in our government.

I have a couple of words for you Mr Hayward..and for my government that enabled you.. FUCK YOU Mr. Hayward!

Oh you think I am angry Mr Hayward..ahahahah..you don't know the half of my anger!

[Xipe Totec]

23. My heart bleeds purple peanut butter for him nt

[jberryhill]

25. Watch Your Back, Tony

You just keep an eye out behind you.

For the rest of your life.

[Thor_MN]

26. Well, if the shoe fits, let me be the first to plant it up your ass.

(With apologies to Red.)

[bemildred]

28. Further demonstrating why he was such a lousy frontman for the company. nt

[IndianaGreen]

29. Poor little abused capitalist oil exec

The outgoing boss will be able to claim a pension worth about £600,000 a year when he reaches his 55th birthday. He is currently 53.

Because he has left by mutual consent, the terms of his contract will be honoured, meaning he will also receive a full year's salary plus retain the rights on BP shares which could be worth million of pounds.

Mr Hayward is also likely to retain a role within the company, with BP planning to nominate him as a non-executive director of its Russian joint venture, TNK-BP.

Gulf residents had their lives ruined while poor little Tony feels abused. They are not the ones getting that golden parachute of Tony's.

As Octafish said: How can you not love this guy?

[reformist2]

30. To admit he sucked as CEO would be to admit that he doesn't deserve his huge pay package.

Of course he couldn't do that!

[johnnyrocket]

31. But it happened in the US, so he was actually "demoniZed"

[zenprole]

32. Wicked Big Tears

I guess he now can have his life back...but if there's justice in this world, Tony Hayward will never stop looking over his shoulder.

[truthisfreedom]

33. "Shortcut" Tony caused this to happen by creating a culture of corner-cutting and lax safetly

His profiteering destroyed the South, perhaps for the rest of our lives.