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How much does it bother you that BP is using volunteers?

BP is recruiting volunteers to help clean the oil spill that will ruin the Gulf Coast. Last year BP showed profits of $327 BILLION and they are asking for VOLUNTEERS to help them clean? BP is a huge British company, headquartered in London; it’s the third largest global energy company in the world. This diaster in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to wreak long-lasting damage to the environmentally sensitive bayous of the Louisiana coast and to fisheries as far north as Florida. The ecology of the region will be destroyed. About one-fifth of U.S. seafood comes from the Gulf. Most shrimp will now have to be imported from China and Vietnam. The oil vomiting from the sea-bottom, estimated at 210,000 gallons per day, is putting thousands of commercial and sports fishermen out of business. The impact will dwarf that of the 1989 Exxon Valdez catastrophe. $327 Billion in profits and they are asking for volunteers to help them clean up their mess. Many Americans are out of work and this British company does not want to pay them a dime to help clean. What do you think?

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Answer #1

Yes, I think it’s morally wrong of BP considering the profit they are making. It always amazes me how a billion dollar company would be so ‘tight arse’ when it comes to cleaning up their own mess.

Sorry off the topic a bit, just need to vent my feelings towards financial institutes. We (Australians) had another interest rate increased once again, that makes it three increases since September 2009. These greedy morons, every frigging year net multiple billion dollar revenues but do not give a f-ck about their consumers. With all the profits they made, you would think it wouldn’t hurt to give a fraction of their revenues back to their own customers, eg, reduce account fees, lower interest rate, reduce late repayment fee and etc etc.

Banks are in a love, hate relationship with their consumers. One needs the banks to lend us money, but we end up getting screwed big time by them (pardon the pun).

Answer #2

I have to agree. For a company that has made so much money, asking for volunteers should be completely out of the question. It definitely is sick and wrong.

Answer #3

I’d say they should get lynched…

…and or have their CEO out there mopping up the spill. And ya, asking for volunteers for a company that makes 20 billion in profits is sick and wrong.

Answer #4

Why pay when you can sucker some poor guy to do it for free. But your right kind of dumb PR.

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