Tuesday, October 11, 2011

When Ethics are in Question.

Ethical and moral behavior are very important aspects in the college atmosphere and will carry through into the business world. In jobs and in many situations ethics can come into question and we may have to defend what we have done or explain our behavior. In my opinion i think that people and corporations can be unethical when a lot of money is involved.

I cannot recall an ethics situation in particular in work, but i do remember an incident in school. I was in a tech program in high school and was always on computers. During the beginning of classes i would draw pictures on paint as well as design items on my own in an engineering program. My ethics came into question because of the files were saved and reviewed by the administration. Many of the pictures i drew were comical to my classmates and were always an entertainment to the class. The administration decided that my actions were inappropriate and i had to discuss what i did to the guidance counselors. I think that they thought what i was doing was unethical but really it had nothing to do with the class and was not taking away from the school with any malicious intent.

5 comments:

  1. I had a similar incident my freshman year of college me and my roommate were drawing pictures on a white board hanging on our door. Parents weekend came around and one of the mothers was offended by our drawings so she reported us to the RD and we had to talk about what we did and why.

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  2. Yeah ethics in education and business should have to do with what is important. Stealing money or ruining reputations is wrong but joking around unrelated to work is different.

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  3. School should be more worried about far more important things than harmless drawings.

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  4. Everyone is so sensitive nowadays that even the littlest things can get you in trouble at school. The school should be worried about the fights and girls smoking the bathrooms (which im sure happened in your school as well) ha

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  5. Teachers have diffenet views on whats funny. Its kind of a waste of time to punnish a student on a cartoon drawing.

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