Honesty in the workplace

[teeboy]

I sympathize with you. I was in your situation. The truth is that there were well respected, honest folks who worked for this former employer and folks who were the complete oppossite.

One C.P.A. was conspired against by top managment of this company after complaining to the S.E.C. about the company’s accounting practices. He sued after being terminated and was successful. Kudos for him, but who wants to go to these extremes?

Often times top management and even the regulators themselves will take a “business first” approach as opposed to a “compliance first” attitiude. For this reason, it can be daunting to go against the tide.

 

[mikekle]

Sorry, duplicate post…my bad.

 

[Kay_Cee]

I guess another way of looking at it would be to ask if professional dishonesty could ever be justified, particularly in a case where the benefits of doing so would literally turn one’s fortunes entirely around.

What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Mark 8:36

I have to tell you that what happened when I looked for that quote because it is so bizarre.

I googled to find an online Bible, clicked on the one I usually use, and that quote came up as their “verse of the day.” Check it out: biblegateway.com/

(I’m sure it’ll be a different verse tomorrow, but that’s the one it is today.)

What are the odds that the particular verse I was searching for, out of all the verses in the Bible, would be a website’s verse of the day? Honestly, what are the odds?

It seems far more than a coincidence to me.

 

[1ke]

You need to find a new place to work. Where you work now has an integrity issue.

In 30 years in the workforce and over 20 in management, no one has ever asked or expected me to lie, nor have I needed to do so to advance up the ranks from staff to supervisor to manager to where I am now as a senior director.

If you believe all workplaces to be like yours, you are mistaken.

 

[Gordon_Sims]

You need to find a new place to work. Where you work now has an integrity issue.

In 30 years in the workforce and over 20 in management, no one has ever asked or expected me to lie, nor have I needed to do so to advance up the ranks from staff to supervisor to manager to where I am now as a senior director.

If you believe all workplaces to be like yours, you are mistaken.

I don’t believe all workplaces are like this, but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating having to deal with it. The incidents I’ve dealt with have spanned a couple decades and multiple leadership regimes. Not all have been like this but as someone who values honesty and integrity, it’s disheartening to consider how much I could have benefited from behaving differently.

 

[Joy2day]

You might find it difficult to imagine how you have benefited… but, do you know what you may have actually escaped? You don’t know the consequences of lying and corruption in the workplace - why would you imagine that they would ultimately be good? Maybe in the interim or immediate future - but; the truth is out there and the watchdog is out there. Maybe you think your career is mediocre - but at least you’re not in gaol. (jail for u).

Personally, I do not know of workplaces where people lie regularly: and if i did, i would be looking for another job.

 

[Gordon_Sims]

You might find it difficult to imagine how you have benefited… but, do you know what you may have actually escaped? You don’t know the consequences of lying and corruption in the workplace - why would you imagine that they would ultimately be good? Maybe in the interim or immediate future - but; the truth is out there and the watchdog is out there. Maybe you think your career is mediocre - but at least you’re not in gaol. (jail for u).

Personally, I do not know of workplaces where people lie regularly: and if i did, i would be looking for another job.

I’ve never worked anywhere where lying wasn’t common, at least to some degree. Whether it was to avoid getting in trouble, to bolster one’s stats/performance, or to put others down in order to make oneself look better, it’s something I’ve always seen as a regular practice, at least for some people. I always assumed that once I got to a certain level professionally that it would lessen or go away, but that has never been the case; if anything, the opposite is true. As I mentioned earlier, though, relying on your integrity to help you advance seems to be a relic of the past. I just have to have faith that the benefits of it will outweigh any worldly rewards.