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Incident at Morales
10/20/09
INCIDENT AT MORALES
FINAL SCRIPT
JANUARY 30, 2003
UP FROM BLACK.
OPENING FRAMES AND CREDITS:
FRAME 1
The National Institute for Engineering Ethics
gratefully acknowledges the significant support of the
National Science Foundation – Under Grant No. NSF SES-0138309
which, combined with other contributors and sponsors from
engineering societies, universities, firms and individuals,
made this video production possible.
FRAME 2
Major Financial Contributors & Sponsors
Harry E. Bovay, Jr., P.E.
Victor O. Schinnerer and Company, Inc.
National Society of Professional Engineers
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
William J. Lhota, P.E., American Electric Power
Clint W. Murchison Chair of Free Enterprise
University of Texas at Austin
Robert L. Nichols, P.E.
Donald L. Hiatte, P.E.
Jimmy H. Smith, Ph.D., P.E.
FRAME 3
Opinions, conclusions, recommendations, or practices expressed or implied in this video
do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
or other sponsors and contributo rs.
FRAME 4
This video contains some practices and events designed to stimulate discussion,
and do not necessarily reflect the positions or recommendations of the
National Institute for Engineering Ethics.
The National Institute for Engineering Ethics
Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism
College of Engineering, Texas Tech University
presents
INCIDENT AT MORALES
An Engineering Ethics Story
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SCENE 1
INT. MONTERREY, MEX ICO, STATE COURTHOUS E, HALLWAY, MORNING
The wide corridors of this statel y old Mexican courthouse, with their marble floors, heavy oak
woodwork, and tall ceilings, are virtually empty. It’s early.
SUPER: State Courthouse, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Stiff and uncomfortable benches line the long hallway. One man, FERNANDO ” FRED”
MARTINEZ, 33, sits alone on the bench across from an oak door. The camera dollies left.
MEXICAN OFFICIAL (VO )
Can you state your name, please?
FRED (VO)
Yes. My name is Fred Martinez.
MEXICAN OFFICIAL (VO )
Are you the same Fred Martinez who, as t he professional engineer, signed and sealed the
construction drawings for the chemical production facilities in Morales, Nuevo Leon?
FRED (VO)
Yes, that’s my signature.
MEXICAN OFFICIAL (VO )
And at the time you were employed by…
FRED (VO)
I was employed by Phaust Chemicals which was, is a division of the French company Chemistre.
SCENE 2
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. PHAUST CHEMICAL S, EXECUTIVE OFFICES, AFTERNOON
INT. PHAUST CHEMICAL S, EXECUTIVE OFFICES, AFTERNOON
A polished secretary, MARY, 26, walks through the p lush and quiet offices. She is holding plane
tickets and a folder of documents.
(SUPER, LOWER-THIRD: Three Years Earlier…PHAUST CHEMICALS, Dallas, Texas
Mary opens the door to an office and enters.
INT. PHAUST, CHUCK’S OFFICE, AFTERNOON
CHUCK, 55, the head of engineering is hunched over his round table pouring through a
voluminous document. DOMINIQUE, 40, is on the phone speaking French and listening. Mary
hands the papers to Chuck and whispers so as not to disturb Dominique’s conversation.
Chuck whispers thanks. As Mary leaves, she waves good -bye to Dominique.
DOMINIQUE (in French)
Yes, yes, yes. Their decision is final. So, we build the plant in Mexico. I’ll see you Monday.
Chuck has it all under control here. Goodbye.
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Dominique hangs up.
DOMINIQUE
They are very pleased with your preliminary report.
Dominique sits at the round table with Chuck.
DOMINIQUE
(collecting her thoughts)
They are on-board with the budget for the Plant site. They want us to find a use for the old plant
site in Allentown, but that will have to wait.
CHUCK
I don’t think we’re going to get approval from Allentown Dominique. I mean, the cost of refitting
Allentown versus building from scratch in Mexico. The money was about the same.
DOMINIQUE
They were hoping you could d o it for less in Mexico, but they are okay with the budget, for now.
CHUCK
For now.
DOMINIQUE
We may need to expedite a schedule depending on where ChemiToil is at with their new product.
CHUCK
I’ve got news on that.
DOMINIQUE
Oh, yes?
CHUCK
That’s okay. You finish. Then I’ll tell you.
DOMINIQUE
That’s all really. What have you heard?
CHUCK
Wally interviewed about, it must’ve been twenty candidates for the plant automation design
engineer post. We’re looking for a PE and someone with a wide -range of skills.
DOMINIQUE
Yeah.
CHUCK
Well, the last one was a real winner. Now, that we got this budget approved, we need to offer this
guy a contract.
DOMINIQUE
What does that have to do with the new Chemitoil product?
CHUCK
He was a design engineer for a c onsulting company.
DOMINIQUE
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His client was ChemiToil?
CHUCK
He designed their plant. He designed exactly what we need to build.
DOMINIQUE
Oh, but is that… ethical?
CHUCK
He came to us. The lawyers say he has no contract as a free -lancer. He’s has no non-compete
clause. He’s got no restrictions.
DOMINIQUE
Sometimes it’s better not to know too much.
CHUCK
Well, I don’t want to put you in a bind or anything. But, do you want to know what he said?
DOMINIQUE
The lawyers have reviewed his situation?
CHUCK
Yes.
DOMINIQUE
Tell me.
CHUCK
ChemiToil wants their plant up and running in six months.
DOMINIQUE
Six months!
CHUCK (In French)
Yes.
SCENE 3
INT. MEXICAN COURTHO USE, HALLWAY, MID-MORNING
The hallway is virtually empty. Fred is sitting, by himself, w aiting patiently for something to
happen.
MEXICAN OFFICIAL (VO )
What was it that your plant would produce?
FRED (VO)
A new formulation of a paint stripper. Phaust is an industry leader in chemical paint and varnish
removal but they needed to take their most profitable product, Old Stripper, off the market in the
U.S. because it contained chlorinated compounds.
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SCENE 4
DISSOLVE TO:
INT. PHAUST HDQRTRS, OFFICES, DAY
WALLY, 42, walks Fred through office on their way to the engineering department.
WALLY
The executive washrooms are down this way, but you’ll use the ones closer to us.
They walk up some stairs. Fred looks around at all the vacant area.
FRED
Hey, what’s up with the empty desks
Wally, some kind of a recent contraction?
WALLY
Yeah, contraction. This all used to be all operations, but Chemistre moved that function and
accounting to France last year. They left some of R&D, all of North American Sales and
Marketing, Legal, and well, for now, Engineering.
They walk further up the stairs, int o a more populated-area of the offices.
WALLY:
WE SET YOU UP DOW N HERE.
They enter Wally’s small cubicle.
SCENE 4A
INT. FRED’S CUBICLE, DAY
The men step into the barren cubicle. Fred sits down at his desk.
WALLY
This is where we expect you to spend e ighty hours a week making our unrealistic goal of getting
a brand new plant for a brand new product up and running in less than a year a reality.
FRED
Thanks. Your honesty really inspires me.
WALLY
Well, let me be more honest Fred. I have one rule. It’ s that you need to tell me things first, not
anybody else. I don’t care if it’s good news, bad news, or no news. I just need to know that I’m
not going to be blind-sided here okay.
FRED: YEAH, SURE.
WALLY
Good. Chuck is going to have a project kick -off meeting this afternoon. Your plant design will
be on the agenda. It’ll be at three. We don’t waste time around here. We’re fast at Phaust.
Corporate tag line.
As Fred gazes around his new work -station, smiling, Wally starts routing through a filing cabinet.
He finds the preliminary plant plans and hands them to Fred.
WALLY
You might want to look at this.
(hopeful)
Tell me if this is like what you were building at your last job.
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SCENE 5
INT. ENGINEERING DEP ARTMENT, CONFERENCE ROOM, AFTERNOON
Fred, jacket off but tie still tight, is the first person at the meeting table. Sleeves rolled up. Pad
and pen neatly in front of him.
At the end of the table sits a laptop computer and an LCD projector already on.
Wally, eating cookies, is the next person to enter.
WALLY
Hey, partner. Ya ready?
He sits by Fred.
FRED
As much as you can be after two hours of reading those preliminary reports.
WALLY
And, what did you think?
FRED
Well, they were kind of… unfocused.
WALLY
I’m not asking ya for a writing cri tique. I want to know what you think about the process.
FRED
Oh… yeah, they were pretty straightforward.
WALLY
And, is it like what you were working on, with Chemitoil?
FRED
Similar. Nothing that hasn’t, you know, really been done before.
WALLY
People might want to know, whether we’re starting from scratch or…
(finding the right words)
Or if your experience is going to help us get ahead. Some optimism.
FRED
Oh, I don’t know, Wally, every system is different. Designed to do different things dif ferently.
They’re just not off the shelf.
(embarrassed)
You didn’t write the prelimin…
Chuck enters the conference room.
WALLY
Nope. Chuck did.
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CHUCK
(with cake in his mouth)
Chuck did what?
WALLY
Fred here was just giving me a critique of your prelimi nary report.
Chuck goes to sit at the far end of the table, up by the computer.
CHUCK
You read that that report over very carefully. Wally and I put a lot of blood, sweat, and time into
thinking that one through. Got the Frenchmen’s approval…
Others begin to enter the room.
WALLY
…..and it’s in your hands now.
CHUCK
Okay, Fred Martinez everyone. We brought him on board to design the new automated plant.
The others in suits take their seats around the conference table.
WALLY
The rumors that Fred traded Chemitoil’s formula for this job are not true. That would be
unethical. He was the best engineer for the job.
CHUCK
So, with the last pieces of the puzzle in place, we thought it would be a good time to get everyone
together… make sure we’re all on th e same page here. This is not sales, it’s not about marketing,
it’s not about R&D, it’s not about engineering… its about all of us working together like a team.
Hal tell us where the market is at.
Wally leans in near Fred while Hal gets settled at th e computer for his Powerpoint presentation.
WALLY
(whispering)
He’s not one of us. He’s from product development and market research.
Hal advances to a slide with a bar graph on market share.
HAL
ChemiToil is on the verge — probably within the year — of releasing EasyStrip. It’s a non -toxic
paint remover that our market research says will carve out a twenty -five percent share in its first
eighteen months. There are a lot of other competitors out there, but this one; this one is poised to
make a dent. Old Stripper is a lame duck product. If we want to preserve our franchise we need
a home run product.
CHUCK
(turns to Jen)
Okay, we’ve got a formula we’re happy with, right?
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JEN
(hard look at Hal)
See for yourself.
Jen advances a PowerPoint slide of a molecular compound.
JEN
(to the slide)
Our new non-toxic formulation. Safer. Not a fire hazard. No known carcinogens. No landfill
disposal issues. Raw materials are cheap. Minimal safety risk to the user – goggles, gloves, the
usual. It’s a mild to moderate skin irritant.
HAL
(voice of concern)
It could work better. It is going to be compared to Old Stripper. And while consumers will accept
a little less effectiveness in return for a safer product… The better it works, the more market share
we can retain. It’s that simple.
CHUCK
I’d like to do a head-to-head with ChemiToil. Sales has a shelf commitment from every major
home-retail outlet.
HAL
We’ve completed our focus tests and we’re in the process of finalizing our brand’s qualities.
WALLY
He’s so full of it…
(whispering, instigating)
You got a name yet, Hal?
Chuck and Hal look at each other to see who should answer.
CHUCK
Yeah. We did. Right up until this morning.
HAL
(unveiling)
StripTeasy.
JEN
Oh, please.
HAL
(confidant)
Research said this was a great way to retain brand recognition and ensure customer loyalty.
CHUCK
But it’s back to the drawing board on that one. The lawyers say that’s a no go.
JEN
Good.
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CHUCK
It seems that the name is already in use by another product.
WALLY
Another paint stripper?
HAL
A depilatory.
WALLY
A what?
FRED
It’s a hair remover.
HAL
Lawyers are afraid that people will get our products confused and they’ll use ours on their legs.
GROUP
Oooh.
CHUCK
Hey guys, let’s let Hal worry about that…
WALLY
Ya know, New Stripper. I like New Stripper, out with the Old Stripper.
They talk over each other.
HAL
(acerbic)
I’ll put it on our short list.
SOMEBODY
I like PowerStrip.
CHUCK
Hey guys, let’s let Hal worry about the name, we need to figure out how to make i t and FAST!
Fred innocently smiles. All the eyes in the room focus on him. His smile disappears.
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SCENE 6
DISSOLVE TO:
INT. MEXICAN PROVINCIAL COURTHOUSE, HAL LWAY, NOON
The hallway is empty. Fred is standing, looking at a painting in the hallway and waiting patiently
for something to happen. MARIA, 33, his wife comes around a corner, with a big briefcase, and
surprises him.
MARIA
Hey.
FRED
Hey.
They kiss and take each other’s hands.
MARIA
Are you done?
FRED
Hasn’t even started. He just got back from a last-minute meeting at the commerce secretary’s
office.
I think they know I’m here.
They keep holding hands and sit together on the bench.
MEXICAN OFFICIAL (VO )
We’ve learned from our investigations into industrial accidents, that many companies rush the
planning process. Was that the case at Phaust?
FRED (VO)
No, no. I don’t believe so, inspector.
MEXICAN OFFICIAL (VO )
How would you describe the decision -making process, then?
FRED (VO)
Dynamic. We were reacting to market pressures. We were on a tig ht schedule. We were not
fully confident in our product’s formulation. But I felt our decision -making process was
thorough, reasoned and thoughtful.
Fred and his wife remain waiting on the bench.
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SCENE 7
DISSOLVE TO:
INT. CHUCK’S OFFICE, DAY
Fred joins the meeting in progress. By the looks on Wally’s and Chuck’s faces, they are
contemplating bad news.
Wally is looking at a stack of spreadsheets on Chuck’s desk while Chuck works on a spreadsheet
on his computer screen.
FRED
What happened?
WALLY
Seems that our French colleagues are doing some expansion through acquisition.
CHUCK
They’ve slashed budgets 20% company -wide to build up a war chest.
FRED
Well, that’s going to put a crimp in things. We’re going to have to put the plant on hold, I guess.
CHUCK
(scoffing)
I don’t think so.
FRED
Well, how can I build this plant for 20% less than budgeted? That’s a mortal wound.
WALLY
Fred, relax, we’ll save your plant. Just sit back and watch the master work. Chuck is a genius at
this.
CHUCK
(focused on screen)
Let’s see. In the last forecast, we were running about twelve percent below budget…
Chuck starts to work with the numbers and, in the silence, Fred leans over to Wally.
FRED
This kind of thing happen often?
WALLY
What kind of thing?
FRED
Edicts from on-high.
WALLY
Well, yeah and no.
FRED
Well, how can you plan for anything when budgets are slashed and schedules cranked up?
Chuck joins in as he works on the calculations.
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CHUCK
You do the best you can. Sometimes you inflate budgets and sometimes yo u build schedules with
slack. That way if something unexpected occurs, you’re covered.
(scanning numbers)
We were running ten to twelve percent under budget due to the dollar versus the peso, the lower
than anticipated acquisition cost for the site in Mex ico, and the savings on the waste water
treatment and the other environmental controls, that’s opposed to what we budgeted for
Allentown.
Fred looks around worried.
CHUCK
Fred, you’ll have to cut costs on basic components. Have purchasing help find you so me more
Mexican suppliers. There’s no need to buy American if the French want to save money. Use
locals when you can.
WALLY
How do you say, “cheaper” in Spanish?
CHUCK
And let’s think about shrinking the size of the plant by making smaller batches. If w e can cut
plant size by ten, fifteen, twenty percent, we can save some real money there.
FRED
But then manufacturing’s unit cost will go up.
CHUCK
(laughing a little)
That’s an easy call for us to make, especially now. The French want to save money now. Let
operations pick up the cost when we hand it over.
Chuck gives a sinking Fred an uncomforting pat on the back.
INTERMISSION: Pause for Discussion
SCENE 8
DISSOLVE TO:
INT. FRED’S CUBICLE, AFTERNOON
The office is dark and empty except for Fred’s cubicle . Fred is pouring over printouts and
blueprints. Wally, dressed down with no tie, knocks on the wall before poking his head in.
Fred’s surprised reaction startles Wally.
WALLY
Yo, kid. Go home.
FRED
Maria is out of town. I just thought I’d catch up. What are you doing here?
WALLY
I forgot the digital camera. I’m on my way to Morales for a site visit.
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FRED
Maybe I’ll see you at the airport tomorrow.
WALLY
Why? Where are you going? Oh, a plant tour. You’re going to like Pete. There isn’t anythi ng
he doesn’t know about building a chemical plant. He’s built all of ours.
FRED
Hey, since I got you here, can I ask you a couple of questions.
Fred goes searching for a printout.
WALLY
Yeah, just make it quick. I’ve got the family in the car.
Fred finds what he was looking for.
FRED
Yeah, grab a seat. About the new pipe vendor…
WALLY
Oh, excellent work on that…
FRED
It was purchasing who discovered them. Does somebody from engineering normally do a site
inspection of the plant the first time we u se a new vendor?
WALLY
Uh, no. I mean… maybe. I guess we should, huh?
FRED
Probably should. First-time supplier. The pipe and the couplings and gasket flanges are going to
be under a lot stress with all the heating and cooling. I’d like to know that t hey meet specs before
we send them to the construction site.
WALLY
Okay, where’s the plant?
FRED
A little town outside Mexico City.
WALLY
That’s not convenient. Um, no. Let’s push that off.
FRED
That won’t give us a lot of time if we need to correct the problem, or even find another vendor.
WALLY
This is when this job gets fun; I mean, when the pressure’s really on and the people start to feel
the heat. Anybody can build these things with enough time and money. Next question.
FRED
In the original specs, all the control system modules were Lutz and Lutz.
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WALLY
Easy one. We’ve used L&L as long as I can remember; that way we know everything works
together.
FRED
But we’re starting from scratch here.
WALLY
Well, there is still something to be said for familiarity within the organization.
Fred goes looking for a budget spreadsheet while Wally is looking antsy.
FRED
Look, they’re so expensive.
WALLY
They’re made in Germany.
FRED
Switzerland.
WALLY
What?
FRED
They are made in Switzerland.
WALLY
Okay, Switzerland. But it’s not like other foreign products.
(mentoring)
Look, kid, pick your fights when you can win them. This one you’re not going to win.
(confidential)
Chuck’s brother-in-law is the US rep for L&L.
(clarifying)
I’m not saying there are an y shenanigans. It’s not like it’s a sweetheart deal. I’m saying Bert, the
brother-in-law, gives us great prices and backs it up with solid support. And then you have the
long-standing relationship…
FRED
So, pick my fights when I can win them.
WALLY
Exactly.
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SCENE 9
INT. CHEMICAL PLANT, DAY
Fred, in a hard hat and goggles, is being toured around a large LOUD chemical production
facility.
(SUPER, LOWER-THIRD: SuisseChem Manufacturing… Big Spring, Texas)
PETER CLANCEY, 48, the project manager for the const ruction company building the Phaust
plant and JAKE SPENCER, 55, the manager of the plant, lead a gaping Fred through the plant.
JAKE
So Fred, where’d you …
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