Oregon sues Johnson & Johnson for leaving flawed Motrin on store shelves

[lafinjack]

Lynn Walther was bothered by his instructions to secretly buy up faulty pain relievers from Salem-area stores

Comments

[lickety_split]

This is really scary, actually.

[brewsternorth]

IKR. As these things go, the issue that triggered the recall was relatively minor; but the way that it was treated as a PR disaster to be avoided, rather than a QA failure to be 'fessed up to and made good? Worried Brewster is worried. The person who cannot be trusted in small things isn't necessarily going to be trustworthy in large ones.

[lyahdan]

Ding. They'd have had positive PR for looking like they were hurting themselves to recall product that had a low probability of hurting anyone. Thus looking all trustworthy and responsible.

Most of us think corporations are such steaming piles nowadays that they have a pretty low bar to clear for some PR brownie points.

[jaeoji]

Hope they come down HARD. Civil suits are supposed to deter negative societal behaviours. These guys should have just owned up. Now they should be hit harder monetarily than the cost of owning up in the first place would've been. Can't let companies or the government act in such a way.

[roseofjuly]

I agree.

[eyetosky]

Oh shit, son.

Got to give him dues, not many people would have the balls to do that. Sadly.

[roseofjuly]

Good for the whistleblower - I always hope I'll have the integrity to do something if I see injustice.