Oooh, is that on outlook? I think I would enjoy something like that.

So here’s what I do to keep from being your next reply-all headliner:

I have a 2 minute email delay on all outgoing emails, which gives me plenty of time to go to my outbox out of paranoia and make sure that I have not replied all.

The whole article is a confusingly written mess. If Ed Finn hit “Reply All”, his reply would have gone back to the people who had already received the layoff announcement — not to everybody at Barron’s.

Ed will be receiving the 1X buyout.

guess everyone is getting that 1.5x buyout

First of all, that is not an exactly easy load job, because it looks like the angle of the boat is different than the angle of the “ramp” leading down to it, on top of what appears to be a longer-than-standard trailer on the truck. Making it not just a matter of backing straight up onto the ferry, but backing in at…

The driver jumps out (left side) at about 1:22.

I’m glad i’m not the only one who didn’t see him come back up. Also, Why did no one even attempt to move closer to the shore and look for the drivier? Why stand there filming.

What was the Tug Captain doing? Its his job to keep the barge up against the bank. If truck driver was guilty of anything it was being indecisive. Either get it on the barge or back on land.

From what I can tell:

I think the barge wasn’t anchored in any way so the truck backing onto it then stopping pushed the barge back and that started a chain reaction.

Yeah WTF. Anchor the boat!

Whose fault was this?
Everyone’s. This was fault of everyone at the site. The lowest guy on the rung should have stopped work. This was astounding levels of stupid.

“It was at a funny angle!”

Yeah I don’t get it either... doesn’t look like it’s the trucker’s fault.

Wait... isn’t this the fault of the boat driver? Or am I missing something here?

So what happened here?

They aren’t idiot proof. He likely would have had more warning than anyone else, but there wasn’t much to actually do as once the lift has started it’s pretty much do or die in this case.

Don’t cranes have all sorts of weight and lean gauges to prevent this type of occurrence? Seems like the operator would have to ignore a lot of warnings for this to happen.