Gentlemen, you work for a company that is managed by a company that told everyone that its ships were no longer calling at Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution because "there wasn't any cargo", i.e. "commercial reasons"
The real reason was that the second officer (the navigating officer on a merchant ship) on a Blue Funnel ship had ignored the Pilot's instructions and, in accordance with SOP, plotted her positions. His notes were discovered when the ship was searched by the Red Guards, and it was six years before his employers, with a lot of help from your employers, were able to retrieve what remained of him him from the gulag.
Please give your employers some credit for knowing what to say and do in such situations; they have been at it since 1863..
Last edited by Methersgate; 17th Jun 2014 at 14:53.