Comments on: The Ethics Quiz

By: al

al — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:28:06 +0000

Boy its all about you Chuck isn’t it…

By: chuck

chuck — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:32:04 +0000

This morning I was reading an article in Maxim about office affairs and relationships and when to have one. Now ethically such relationships are frowned upon but office affairs are a comming occurance. What made the Maxim article interesting was the fact the journalist whose a sex expert pointed out how healthy is to have an office relationshp. Personally I frown on this practice. Professionally I frown on it. Honestly I would rather have my girlfried outside the office place. Why? Real simple. Office gossip and gossip can destroy a reputation and distract employees from their duties. Personally and professionally I honestly never gotten involve with anyone in the office. And to this day I refuse to do it.
Consesquences from my perspective would real dire. Both employees and managers who have office tryst could be fired and think how the press would eat up. Would lawsuits and civil suits follow? Just hypothesing. But when I heard rumors of affairs in the office place I ignored them. It’s like poking one’s nose in another’s person business and that I would never do.
I wonder if office affairs violate any professional corporate ethics? Or does that depend on the company? Or the leader? Office affairs and trysts would make an interesting news ethics story as an idea.

By: chuck

chuck — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:36:20 +0000

Cheryl that is an interesting quiz. U know all the time I overhear people talk in restraunts but I don’t brag thier secrets to my collegues. One issue I have and I don’t like personally is gossip. Becouse gossip destroys a person/employer and reptutions. But since I’ve something of a journalist here in the blogs,I do pursue rumors which often pan out as fact. There are others that don’t. At times in my experince in the workplace I’ve gotten the unfair treatment. Good example is when I nearly lost my job in reduction in force,it upset everyone and I knew,including myself. Honestly when it was overwith it only forment distrust with my employer. I still don’t trust them becouse they haven’t reach out to build back my trust. Further here’s something funny I heard,when I worked as a movie extra Management got jealous over that fact. I could care less at the time they got jealous. But I was laughing at them becouse management didn’t those affected in the misguided RIF. Oh I forgiven but I haven’t forgotten. I learned a lot of lessons from it. The worst an employer especially when its beauracratic is leave its affected employees in the dark. No communications status on thier jobs or anything. Which in turn creates frustrations and anxieties. But I coped,survived,and gotten wiser from it. Personally and professionaly I wouldn’t treat my own employees that way–the way I was treated. I made it vow so to speak.