AIG Advises Toyota to Pay Gas Pedal Engineers $50 Million Bonus
Toyota should pay its gas pedal engineers a $50 million bonus, according to consultants from the insurance company and financial services firm AIG.
“If you want to keep top gas pedal engineers at Toyota, you need to give them this level of bonus. Otherwise Toyota will have a brain drain, and these engineers will move to a company where they can get a market-appropriate bonus, like GM,” said Grace Burke.
Critics, however, claim that Toyota’s gas pedal engineers didn’t do their job properly. “Their reckless work caused the crashes!” says Adam Fuller, spokesman for the Citizens for Formation of Complaining Groups.
Burke disagrees though. “Nobody could see these crashes coming. Do we really want Transportation Secretary LaHood to come in and start telling Toyota what to do about compensation? It’s a slippery slope. Next thing you know he’ll be telling folks not to drive their cars.”