Meanwhile, in Australia … a mining company, Rio Tinto apologizes for blowing up 46,000-year-old sacred indigenous site in Australia’s Pilbara region. Which was half-arsed, especially considering that they lawyered up beforehand. This hypocrisy was pointed out by Australia’s satirical news service, the Chaser, who quipped Indigenous group apologise after accidentally blowing up Rio Tinto’s headquarters.
So how should the Corporates & Executives in Cyberpunk cover their own arses. Checking the local laws is one thing, but getting a legal team to double-check everything tips your hand a little too much. And maybe accessing the Net for the precedence set in legal cases could be seen as too much.
How can you hide your trail from the prying eyes of your boss looking over your shoulder? It can be better to have an unlogged terminal somewhere you can check this stuff, or have conversations in quiet corners away from the office.
Even if you hire a team to ‘fix’ your problem, they can take the fall for failing to interpret that the security needed to be checked, not the target assassinated. Or better yet, pass the word onto a fixer to have them deal with the problem. Low-level goons are great for this stupidity as they usually take the easiest path and now one will miss them when the bodies fall.
Every good corporate (or fixer for that matter) should plan for the revealing of their activities and have a way out. Fall guys are good, but it’s better to have your boss take the fall to clear away to the top.
And if things goo badly… Like with Rio Tinto, their CEO & two execs just left, over the destruction of Indigenous sites. They may lose some ‘bonuses’, but they’ll have enough in the on hand and will find themselves in another job soon.
