“Munoz repeatedly makes reference to established procedures: “Our employees followed established procedures for dealing with situations like this.” Here we have what seems to be a nice use of the active voice: We have actors (“our employees”) and they are doing something specific. But the figures responsible for establishing procedure are nowhere to be found. Whenever possible, bureaucratic style will shift responsibility to immutable rules and directives that appear spontaneously from the ether.”
it’s funny because if employees did violate established procedures then they could take the blame, but if established procedures are responsible then really you want to chase responsibility up the chain of command until it reaches the CEO if necessary: who established the procedure, who reviewed it, who approved it, who is responsible for reviewing it, who set the overall corporate direction that led to it, etc.
What if that guy is dead?
Then they are not the officer currently in charge, unless it was the incident under review that killed them.
What if they’ve died and become a godhead that communicates through prophetic hallucination?
My office has methods for dealing with that. You don’t hear about it much because this sort of situation has only come up twice in corporate malpractice.
