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Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.

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[–] wahming@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh, the delicious irony that the CEO was on board...

[–] Girlparts@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

King of fuck around and find out

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Huh, thats new to me.

And i couldn't find it in the linked article,
am i blind or are you referencing a different article?

[–] Girlparts@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks, Oh wow.

After reading all the articles,
about how it was clear to the company that the sub was an obvious deathtrap,
im genuinely supprised the ceo was dumb / bold enough to actually board it himself.

Thats an almost biblical level of
"fuck around and find out"

[–] aegisgfx877@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

one thing we've learned about most billionaires is they arent very smart and surround themselves completely with 'yes people'. And they also seem to have almost no ability to assess risk, like buying business that they personally know almost nothing about, like twitter and submarines.