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TheStatutoryApe
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Whose Ethics??
I just finished doing an online ethics course for work. Lordy was it cheesy!
One of the things that I thought was really funny was that they are trying to promote the sorts of ethics that they as a coporation want us to have. One of the scenarios outlined in their little video was about a woman who finds out that her good friend and co-worker is going to be laid off but isd told to not say anything. To make it worse she gets a phone call from her friend later that night and he starts telling her about how he and his wife are going to be buying a new home that will be expensive but they should be able to cover it with their two incomes. The course obviously says that the this woman should not tell her friend about his being laid off because she made a promise not to say anything to her manager. They say that she should talk to the manager and tell the manager what the situation is and that they need to let him know right away.
Then they make the situation even worse. They say well what if she happens to know that the manager had a relationship with her friend at one time and he left her for his current wife. Perhaps she now has reason to believe that this manager may be laying her friend off out of revenge, what should she do? Obviously she still doesn't tell her friend. I believe that one of the people in the video actually says "Under no circumstances should she tell him." She should go to managment above the manager that she is dealing with and tell them and if they don't do anything about it then she should seriously consider whether or not she wants to work with such people, but she shouldn't tell her friend under any circumstances.
What a crock of hoey.
This actress did make it somewhat pleasant though...
http://toposwopetalent.com/headshots/Jeanette_Maus_1.jpg
I just finished doing an online ethics course for work. Lordy was it cheesy!
One of the things that I thought was really funny was that they are trying to promote the sorts of ethics that they as a coporation want us to have. One of the scenarios outlined in their little video was about a woman who finds out that her good friend and co-worker is going to be laid off but isd told to not say anything. To make it worse she gets a phone call from her friend later that night and he starts telling her about how he and his wife are going to be buying a new home that will be expensive but they should be able to cover it with their two incomes. The course obviously says that the this woman should not tell her friend about his being laid off because she made a promise not to say anything to her manager. They say that she should talk to the manager and tell the manager what the situation is and that they need to let him know right away.
Then they make the situation even worse. They say well what if she happens to know that the manager had a relationship with her friend at one time and he left her for his current wife. Perhaps she now has reason to believe that this manager may be laying her friend off out of revenge, what should she do? Obviously she still doesn't tell her friend. I believe that one of the people in the video actually says "Under no circumstances should she tell him." She should go to managment above the manager that she is dealing with and tell them and if they don't do anything about it then she should seriously consider whether or not she wants to work with such people, but she shouldn't tell her friend under any circumstances.
What a crock of hoey.
This actress did make it somewhat pleasant though...
http://toposwopetalent.com/headshots/Jeanette_Maus_1.jpg
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