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Article: MANAGEMENT STAINED IN STAINLESS STEEL MESS.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- February 8, 1998
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Where does the buck stop with Washington State Ferries? Not with the folks who make the big bucks.
That's the only lesson we can take from ferries chief Paul Green's failure to punish managers over the stainless steel pipe fiasco that has cost the taxpayers more than $766,000.
Singled out for punishment of losing a week's pay were two relatively low-level employees, William Moran and John Douglas. Moran is mechanical section supervisor in the vessel engineering division's design group. Douglas is a shipyard repair engineer in the vessel engineering division's construction group. As vessel project engineer for repair, it was Douglas' responsibility to ...