The internet creates unfortunate opportunities for the fired, rejected, under-appreciated and disgruntled to do all sorts of harm to their previous employers and themselves. Former Huffington Post blogger Mayhill Fowler has considerately given us an object lesson in how not to leave a job, though at some personal sacrifice. Continue reading
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Ethics Dunce: Bo, the Baseball Weenie
As a well struck foul ball hurtled toward his girlfriend, Bo, nattily attired in a backwards cap, evacuated the area and allowed her to get hit. It is in such instinctual decisions that character, or the lack of it, reveals itself. When it’s crunch time, Bo thinks about #1. There are a lot of Bo’s out there, but if one of them reveals his true colors early in a relationship, there is no excuse for trusting him. Since trying to stop a baseball from hitting his date doesn’t enter his thought process, just imagine what other acts of selfishness, disloyalty and cowardice Bo may be capable of.
Urgent message to Bo’s girlfriend, courtesy of the Amityville Horror house: “GET OUT!!!!”
Asking For a Favor And Turned Down Flat
Has this ever happened to you?
There is someone who has needed a lot of help from me recently—rides, errands, a shoulder to cry on, and mostly time. I try to help out people when I can, especially if I am asked, because, obviously, it’s the right thing to do.
After a day in which my assistance to this individual was especially inconvenient and aggravating, essentially blowing a day that I could not afford to have blown, I learned about a personal situation facing me the next day that was going to be a problem, and realized that the person I had been assisting would be able to make my life a lot easier by granting a favor, and not a very difficult one. So I asked her. Continue reading
Ethics Alarms 