Comments on: Blessay: Personal Ethics and Corporate Morals – My Choices http://etherealmind.com/personal-ethics-corporate-morals-my-choices/ Network design, architecture, thinking, working. Tech. Wed, 23 May 2012 23:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anon http://etherealmind.com/personal-ethics-corporate-morals-my-choices/#comment-706 Anon Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:07:13 +0000 http://etherealmind.com/?p=951#comment-706 Discovering I was a libertarian, I faced an ethical conflict as I was working full-time for a government agency...specifically, an agency that was a tax dollar siphon providing little value to the public. Believing in smaller government whilst feeding at the beast's teat stuck in my craw, but I didn't move on just because of my new-found libertarian principles. The mortgage payment trumped idealism. Eventually, I was able to return to the dreaded private sector, where I today watch my company do things that can been interpreted as either "good business savvy" or "shameless marketplace manipulation", depending on the heft of your tinfoil hat. Do I believe my company operates in an ethically responsible way? I doubt they do all the time. So, on principle, do I leave this place? No. Why? Every organization will have facets I find disagreeable. When faced with networking ethics, I will ultimately support management, even when I disagree. However, I would be remiss if I didn't lodge my objections in a clear, professional way. It's my job to provide my managers with the salient data required for them to make an informed decision. Sometimes, the decisions don't go "my way". I can hold my nose...rather like I did at the voting booth yesterday. Life goes on. Discovering I was a libertarian, I faced an ethical conflict as I was working full-time for a government agency…specifically, an agency that was a tax dollar siphon providing little value to the public. Believing in smaller government whilst feeding at the beast’s teat stuck in my craw, but I didn’t move on just because of my new-found libertarian principles. The mortgage payment trumped idealism.

Eventually, I was able to return to the dreaded private sector, where I today watch my company do things that can been interpreted as either “good business savvy” or “shameless marketplace manipulation”, depending on the heft of your tinfoil hat. Do I believe my company operates in an ethically responsible way? I doubt they do all the time. So, on principle, do I leave this place? No. Why? Every organization will have facets I find disagreeable.

When faced with networking ethics, I will ultimately support management, even when I disagree. However, I would be remiss if I didn’t lodge my objections in a clear, professional way. It’s my job to provide my managers with the salient data required for them to make an informed decision. Sometimes, the decisions don’t go “my way”. I can hold my nose…rather like I did at the voting booth yesterday. Life goes on.

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