Sub Moron
This Week In Blunders – Aug. 3-9
“The ego is a fascinating monster.” – Alanis Morrissett
Everyone will have a stubborn jackass for a boss one day, if they haven’t suffered one already.
Someone who won’t heed warnings from subordinates or follow basic rules. Someone who wants everything done on the cheap, yet demands top-dollar results. Someone who passionately insists they know every damn thing.
Sometimes the best thing to do is kick back and watch this fool implode.
Perhaps no such C-suite chucklehead has ever imploded as literally as OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who tragically piloted his slap-dash submarine to the Titanic and added himself and four other souls to this century-old, watery grave yard.
On Tuesday, the Coast Guard released a 327-page report detailing its two-year investigation into the June 2023 disaster that befell OceanGate’s Titan submarine.
It concluded that the disaster was preventable, and that Rush was so reckless that he’d likely be facing criminal charges – if he hadn’t, you know, imploded.
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As Business Blunders observed in September following a 10-day public hearing on the debacle:
“The final analysis will show that OceanGate’s Titan submersible was a shoddy, carbon-fiber canister operated by an ego maniac with a video game controller. And for this OceanGate charged some passengers $250,000 a seat.”
The report confirmed that Rush checked all the boxes of a delusional and deceitful CEO. Here are just a few highlights:
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