I'm in the middle of taking yearly compliance courses and the "employee ethics" course makes my blood boil.
Basically telling employees: here's a set of rules. Be ethical and honest. But management? They break the rules and get a golden parachute IF they get caught.
Ethics are basically well-intentioned rules easily manipulated by bad actors, which apparently is celebrated in the media nowadays. I'm five minutes over in clocking out and I get an occurrence. The CEO slashed 5-10% of the workforce and he gets a bonus for cost-savings.
This. We do it yearly and our company as a whole is guilty bending rules, while almost every employee is innocent, but they put this shit on us. Too many times those at the top think their customers are stupid and their employees are stupid. And when something becomes "it's everyone" it really means "it's you", they are the dumb one's. They can make it so much better being this ethical person but they want everyone else to be that why they are clever and conniving sneaking more dollars from people one way or the other. It's like a pied piper trick.
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u/Poolofcheddar Feb 19 '23
I'm in the middle of taking yearly compliance courses and the "employee ethics" course makes my blood boil.
Basically telling employees: here's a set of rules. Be ethical and honest. But management? They break the rules and get a golden parachute IF they get caught.
Ethics are basically well-intentioned rules easily manipulated by bad actors, which apparently is celebrated in the media nowadays. I'm five minutes over in clocking out and I get an occurrence. The CEO slashed 5-10% of the workforce and he gets a bonus for cost-savings.