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That oil spill situation happened like forever ago, so who can even remember any of the details. It's almost like it never even happened around the happy-go-lucky Transocean, offices, the company that maintained the oil rig that ruined the world and made a million seagulls cry oil blood. You know what they say, tragedy plus time is comedy, right? Because this is a fucking joke.
"...Transocean disclosed Friday that it had given its top executives...about 45 percent of their targeted performance bonuses for 2010. Several factors, including the accident in the gulf and failure to meet some financial targets, reduced the bonuses." (NYT via Gawker)
Oh, you think so? Failed to meet some financial targets? Was that the problem? What kind of skinflint operation are they running over there where hard working executives don't get every last penny of their promised bonuses? It's things like this that make it hard for oil companies to attract the top talent they really need to stay competitive.
"In a securities filing, Transocean said that despite the gulf tragedy, by its internal statistical measures, "we recorded the best year in safety performance in our company’s history.” Consequently, executives received most of the safety-related portion of their bonuses for the year.
Only most of the safety-related portion. It's not like they ruined the entire country's coastline, just like 30% of it. From another NYT piece:
The spill commission concluded in a report released in January that the oil spill was an avoidable accident caused by a series of failures and errors by the companies involved in drilling the well — BP, Transocean and Halliburton — and several subcontractors as well as the government regulators assigned to oversee their work.
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