[ArrogantBustard]

"Take off your engineering hat and put on your management hat."

I'm an engineer. I'm not sure if anyone who isn't an engineer can completely understand how scary that sentence, in that context really is.

[Indy Pendance]

engineer/mba here, and in management. Sadly, these types of decisions happen far more frequently than expected. Sometimes, I just want to get out of it because of bad management decisions. You can't argue with someone who sucked their way up the corporate ladder. It's a futile attempt. And almost every experience I've had, these managers have no clue about engineering, technology, science or chemistry whatsoever.

Making a profit is the goal of companies, and I understand that completely, but at what price do the engineer's recommendations become valid? In this case, the price was seven lives.