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[quote user="carnej1"] [quote user="Overmod"] [quote user="overall"] All of us who are interested in this story should go to the Railway Age website and look under "latest news" for the article called "When Bad Things Happen to Good Companies and Good people" [/quote] <a title="http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/blogs/larry-kaufman/when-bad-things-happen-to-good-companies-and-to-good-people.html?channel=61" href="http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/blogs/larry-kaufman/when-bad-things-happen-to-good-companies-and-to-good-people.html?channel=61" target="_blank">Here it is.</a>[/quote] Thanks for posting that. The article is a very concise analysis of what M,M,&A's management (primarily in the person of Ed Burkhardt) did wrong, with concrete examples of how similiar incidents have been handled. I urge all of our forum members who have taken an interest in this discussion thread to read it..[/quote] It is a good article, but there are many other articles online that detail the response of Burkhardt.  The one thing that all the quotes of him have in common is that he appears to be taking blame off of himself and placing it on somebody else.  For instance, he says he hopes the anger and hatred of the people of Lac-Megantic will dissipate.  He could have said that he prays for the people of Lac-Megantic , and hopes they will heal from the disaster.  But no; he hopes they will stop hating.  So the problem with all those grieving people is that they hate.  And since he feels that they hate him, they should stop. He says this:  "If I was in their shoes, I would be quite angry. I understand, but what more can I say? I hope that anger will dissipate and people will sit down and try to work out constructive measures." What more can he say?  After asking that question defensively, he says, in effect, that the people are wrong in being angry, and they should correct that by becoming constructive.  Every time he opens his mouth, there is a condescending tone and defensive resentment because he feels that people are unfairly putting him on the spot.      He blames the sour response of the people of the Lac-Megantic to his first appearance on his translator not being very competent with the French language.  He wishes he could speak in fluent French because it is a beautiful language, as though that would please the people of the incinerated town.  How condescending.     He tells the victims of the catastrophe that MM&A management and the employees are also victims of the disaster.  <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2013/07/18/ceo-ed-burkhardt-hopes-lac-megantic-anger-will-one-day-dissipate">http://www.torontosun.com/2013/07/18/ceo-ed-burkhardt-hopes-lac-megantic-anger-will-one-day-dissipate</a>
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