"Normally, to get people to comply you almost have to sue them," Mr. Schmokel said.
There's a culture of fear because if you don't comply, you will be fired," the employee told me.
"The law does not say that because you do not comply you have to die," commonwealth's attorney Stephanie Morales said during her closing argument on Tuesday.
On every shift, in every department we are constantly being told that if you don't comply you'll get the sack.
Christian J. Mixter, a former chief litigation counsel for the S.E.C.'s enforcement division, said of the new rule, "If you comply, you're O.K".
"It it's 25 years or older, you don't have to comply, you just check the box and the car comes in," he said of the safety regulations.
"The message that Landmarks sends is that if you try to comply, you get hassled, but if you do something illegal, you can get away with it," Mr. Jones said.
If you refuse to comply, you're at risk.
If you don't comply, you get your products recalled.
If you don't comply, you face steep fines and even jail time.
Even when you're right, if you fail to comply, you're wrong.
