Saturday, June 5, 2010

Capping the Gaffe Gusher: Silencing Tony Hayward

by LaFeminista

In a desperate final bid engineers are setting up in the BP boardroom millions of pounds worth of anti-noise equipment, and a suspiciously large glass dome. The budget for this last ditch effort is not being released, however shares in BP fell sharply in afternoon trading. Dr Janet Sharpman said "It's and extremely delicate operation lowering the dome over Tony, we estimate the probability of him remaining in one place long enough to be in the order of 20%". Dr Fred Peters added "Shutting up Tony is now our number one priority, we have the keys to the Rolls Royce and the chauffeur has been given extended paid leave. We believe this has improved the probability for sucess twofold." Byron Grote CFO "We have given our engineers an unprecedented budget to resolve the verbal utterances of our rogue CEO, quite frankly every time he opens his mouth, I reach for the Valium and whiskey. This must stop now."

continued at Daily Kos....