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[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now I'm curious to know how a head of compliance for a oil company found their way to kbin.social.

[–] solstice@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmy isn't just programmers and cryptobros fyi. Lots of people have interesting jobs and hardly anyone works 100% of the time. Gotta shitpost somewhere.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Nothing precludes the head of compliance from being a cryptobro or a programmer.

[–] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

US Navy submariner checking in!

[–] solstice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Red Oktober shtanding by!

[–] TheThirdAccount@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh, for one we are hyper specialized oil company so not quite as evil as your run of the mill ones. We sell fuel to ships, so unless everyone suddenly agrees they don't need the 90% of the world's commodities and manufactured goods anymore, you gotta use ships. And in a moderate defense, ships by far the least polluting way to transport stuff by ton/mile.

Me personally I'm a big old lefty, even here within the EU's context (where the American Democrats would be a center-right party).I just fell into this role and happened to be good at it. My function is far too niche for any green energy projects. At the core of what we do and the bit I supervise, we are basically providing short term liquidity to shipping companies, since you sell fuel on unsecured credit. Believe me I've looked (and keep looking) at green and adjacent spaces.

[–] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

Oh that makes sense, thank you for the explanation!