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Mexico, testified that he “was concerned that John [Guide] may not be
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comfortable with the new organization.”

In March 2010, around the time of the second loss of well control at
Macondo, there was tension between Sims and Guide. In an email dated March
13, Guide complained to Sims and accused him of making up his mind on
corrective actions without listening to input from the well site leaders. In
response, Sims said that “we cannot fight about every decision” and that “I will
hand this well over to you in the morning and then you will be able to do
whatever you want. I would strongly suggest, for everyone’s sake, that you
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make logical decisions, based on facts, after weighing all the opinions.”

Sims also drafted an email that was addressed to Guide but was never
sent. In the email, Sims stated the following about Guide:

 You seem to love being the victim. Everything is someone else’s fault.
You criticize nearly everything we do on the rig but don’t seem to
realize that you are responsible for everything we do on the rig.

 You will not call the rig in the ops room. You have to sneak out of the
room and call them on your cell phone or go back to your office while
everyone is in the ops room.

 You can’t sit in a meeting and listen to others’ opinions without
arguing with them. You think when somebody has an opinion that
they are demanding action. You complain that a bunch of young
engineers are throwing out all kinds of wild ideas and that it is driving
you crazy. You don’t listen. You key on a random word or phrase and
then you fixate on that and don’t hear anything else. You are always
defensive and the victim. You seem to not want to make a decision so
that you can criticize it later.
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During the weeks leading up to the blowout, Guide appeared to have
problems handling his responsibilities for operations at Macondo.
Notwithstanding the fact that, at the time, he was “very upset” about the March

179 Testimony of Jon Sprague, Joint Investigation Hearing, December 8, 2010, at 246.
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