Subcontractor Tells Fukushima Workers To Hide Radiation Exposure 439
First time accepted submitter fredprado writes "Apparently at least one subcontractor hired to clean up the Fukushima site has been urging their workers to put their radiation detectors lined under lead shieldings.
A diagram can be seen here. The authorities decided not to prosecute him, even after one employee presenting them recordings of him trying to talk the said employee into it."
one good result: (Score:5, Interesting)
the Japanese people will no longer blindly trust their government
Re:Health effects in children (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re:Doesn't work. (Score:2, Interesting)
What I believe you are forgetting is that humans aren't machinery. The right employees can make and break a company. Companies who believe that employees are disposable and you can find another usually don't stay in business for very long.
And, no, I'm not talking about head CEOs or people with "vision" for the company but everyday, common, employees. If an employee adds no value compared to their cost, of course they will be replaced with someone who does, so the goal as an employee is not to do your "job" but add value to the product. If you add value, you will always have a job.
Swap a group of English speaking cashiers making slightly above the minimum wage for a group of foreigners working for less who speak with a thick accent in any American shop and watch that shop go out of business.
Why would that shop go out of business? Surely their costs were lowered, the foreigners had the same job description and could do the basics of the job well (scan items, make change, hand a receipt) but failed to really add any sort of value to the customer because they couldn't have conversations with them, they didn't know what certain customers wanted, etc.
You can win when you view yourself in the right light. You aren't hired to do a "job" you are hired to add value.
Moral Credibility (Score:5, Interesting)
Therefore I am forced to conclude that the human race in 2012 does not have the moral credibility to be trusted to operate nuclear fission reactors.
Typical for technocrats (Score:2, Interesting)
This is actually pretty typical when technocrats are in charge. Because they have huge stockpiles of paid-for dosimeters that workers use every day, but which saturate at very low levels, they decide they're going to use those by putting them behind a shield and then adjusting the readings correspondingly. Makes sense, except they give absolutely no consideration to appearances. Ignorant journalists and nutty lefty conspiracy theorists then have a field day.
Re:This is why we need more unions and more worker (Score:4, Interesting)
I'd rather outlaw the existence of corporate speech; they can no longer hire lobbyists
Lobbyists are simply people. Corporations are headed up by CEOs. Are you going to make it illegal for them to contact their reps?
The only problems with your ideas is that they would be gross violations of the first amendment, and are more dangerous than the issues they are trying to fix.
Re:Doesn't work. (Score:2, Interesting)
A) Protect its citizens from force (foreign attack, murder, theft, etc.)
B) Protect its citizens from fraud (misrepresentation, civil court system, etc.)
In a free market, companies have a single goal:
Make a profit.
How do they do that? By having people pay for services/goods. Why do they pay for goods and services? Because they improve people's quality of living. If they did not, they wouldn't be bought and the company would go out of business.
If government exists (as opposed to replacing the traditional functions of government with the free market), a government that only regulates force and fraud is the only way to ensure the highest possible quality of life for those who live under the jurisdiction of that government.
Re:This is why we need more unions and more worker (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm not saying it's a perfect system, far from it. But it's not even close to the "legalized bribe" that most people who don't work in Washington imagine it is.
Having been a candidate for public office before, I will say it is hard to turn down campaign donations from groups that offer enough money to finance your campaign. And I've had offers from groups that I most certainly didn't agree with for money I could have desperately used in order to finance my campaign.
While the laws have changed somewhat since this practice was happening, there was in the past an option for federal office holders (Senate & U.S. House) to be able to pocket excess campaign donations after they were defeated in an election or went into retirement. This still is the case for some state and municipal office seekers (and certainly was in my case when running for municipal office). I had to report all of the donations of course and file formal reports on all of the income and expenses (which typically break even if you are being serious about a campaign), but if a "generous donation" was to fall in your lap, it certainly could end up being something very much like a legalized bribe.
I do agree though with the fact that lobbyists do much more than handing out huge piles of money. They do tend to be experts on the topics they advocate about and can be very useful in terms of being able to understand what a particular constituency group or industry group thinks about a particular piece of legislation. As long as you understand the bias that the bring to the table, they can also be useful for obtaining information about that particular topic they are advocating for as well.
say what ? (Score:2, Interesting)