Employees rarely face true consequences for idiotic actions employers are the ones punished and it’s unfair

If an employee does something stupid AGAINST guidelines and safety regulations of their job they are often fired but rarely face severe consequences. Employers on the other hand are often sued, fined, shut down, or forced into bankruptcy even though they didn’t technically do anything wrong the employee was just being an idiot.

To reiterate I’m not talking about cases where management threatens employees into doing something they shouldn’t. Im talking about employees being an idiots and facing much lighter consequences than the employer who didn’t do anything or did very little wrong.

Examples:

The smiler roller coaster crash Employees manually overrode safety alarms causing serious injuries. Employees faced internal discipline. The park operator was fined 5 million and faced multiple other lawsuits.

Valu jet flight 592 Maintenance personnel intentionally mislabeled oxygen generators as empty causing all on board to die. No employee served prison time. Most continued to work. Valujet who didn’t even directly employ these people faced 10s of millions in fines and was grounded long enough that they had to sell to avoid bankruptcy.

Uber self driving car pedestrian death. Safety driver who was supposed to be monitoring the car and road was watching hulu when the car struck and killed a pedestrian. Employee faced no prison time while uber had to pay a massive settlement and their self driving car division. One employee being an idiot caused uber to abandon self driving cars.

Yale fertility clinic embryo destruction. A employee turned off a cryogenic freezer because it was annoying causing the loss of a lot of human embryos at the fertility clinic. Employee faced no liability while the company was sued for millions.

Vanderbilt medical center medication error Nurse intentionally overrode medication administration equipment leading to a patient death. The nurse faced no prison time and no financial liability while the employer paid massive settlements faced a federal investigation and nearly lost Medicare funding which would have been a death sentence.