Financial Times divulga e-mail do presidente da BP acalmando seus funcionários

Ainda com muitas incertezas, especialmente financeiras (as ações estão em constante queda, pós vazamento), a BP enviou um e-mail para todos os seus funcionários, na tentativa de acalmá-los sobre o futuro da companhia. Teoricamente, quem o escreveu foi o presidente Tony Hayward, O jornal Financial Times publicou partes em seu site. Seguem trechos - sem tradução, para garantir a fidedignidade:

I have said all along that we will be judged by how we respond, and that remains the case. The strength of the BP balance sheet allows us to take on this responsibility. I know that many of you have questions about how this incident will impact BP, your jobs, pensions, and our future plans. We have demonstrated robust cash flow generation over the past few quarters and at the end of 1Q our gearing ratio was below our 20 to 30% target range, at 19% or some $25 billion. We can therefore afford to do the right thing, and we will do just that - our financial strength will also allow us to come through the other side of this crisis, both financially secure and stronger as a result of what we have learned from this tragic incident and how we have responded.

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The financial scale of our response is just one illustration of the serious way in which we are stepping up to our responsibility to clean up the spill and mitigate its impacts.