Some companies are just as ethically bankrupt all the way down to the mailroom.
Once, I worked at a place that had, and I kid you not: “Ethics awareness training.”
Said presentation had a few slides dedicated to mandatory legal matters and that was it. Ethics? Training? Awareness? Nevermind all that, did you know that we’ve always had Eurasia as a loyal customer? I didn’t stick around for very long.
The training is not for you. The training is to protect the company.
If anything ever happens that results in some kind of legal action, the company can say they gave the employee the training and the employee successfully completed the training, therefore we did all we could to prevent this and we are not liable. So then it all falls on you.
I took a very similar presentation from the shadiest company I was ever employed by, specifically that “gifts and other favors” are generally guidelines to be followed by local customs. I.e. bribe away as long as you aren’t in the United States. Weird as fuck for a company that solely does commerce in the United States to have murky guidance on this very clear issue.
My role here was very brief, they hired me for a licensed role and then paid me as a customer service rep, so I quit immediately after my first paycheck was about $3,000 short.
Some companies are just as ethically bankrupt all the way down to the mailroom.
Once, I worked at a place that had, and I kid you not: “Ethics awareness training.”
Said presentation had a few slides dedicated to mandatory legal matters and that was it. Ethics? Training? Awareness? Nevermind all that, did you know that we’ve always had Eurasia as a loyal customer? I didn’t stick around for very long.
The training is not for you. The training is to protect the company.
If anything ever happens that results in some kind of legal action, the company can say they gave the employee the training and the employee successfully completed the training, therefore we did all we could to prevent this and we are not liable. So then it all falls on you.
I took a very similar presentation from the shadiest company I was ever employed by, specifically that “gifts and other favors” are generally guidelines to be followed by local customs. I.e. bribe away as long as you aren’t in the United States. Weird as fuck for a company that solely does commerce in the United States to have murky guidance on this very clear issue.
My role here was very brief, they hired me for a licensed role and then paid me as a customer service rep, so I quit immediately after my first paycheck was about $3,000 short.
Have you heard of ethics?
Not yet. Thanks for making me aware of them!
If the leaders don’t take accountability or ethics seriously, why should the employees?
because they can get fired. the leaders/owners can’t.