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>stories about people who believed they had staunch morals or principles but then someone came in with a wad of cash and then they betrayed those principles. R
by nimbius 8y ago
>stories about people who believed they had staunch morals or principles but then someone came in with a wad of cash and then they betrayed those principles.
Running a shop to repair something that weighs north of forty tons implies you're a fairly ethical person. Large tanker trucks for example hold a capacity of 11,000 gallons (14.6kl). This can be anything from milk to salsa, or more typically gasoline or Methylene Chloride. Hacking around in the internals of the computer that controls the engine is generally a dangerous idea as trucks use their engines to slow themselves on hills, or control themselves during ascents much more than their brakes.
I guess 'everyone has a price' in my field is the greased palm you take when someone asks you to compromise your ethics. Sure, you made way more on a routine service overhaul than you normally would have, but gojo doesnt make a hand cleaner to wash off what happens when your work is directly attributable to a major accident or fatality.
- bena 8y ago> Running a shop to repair something that weighs north of forty tons implies you're a fairly ethical person. Eh. I wouldn't put that into the necessary column. Not to mention, there's also the chance that these people saw nothing morally wrong with what they did. They see all these safety features and regulations as nothing more that the government "playing nanny" or whatever. Or maybe the truckers do and some guy decided he can make a good living off of catering to their particular whims. Also whoever did the modification believed that he knew what he was doing. Ethics are also a very fluid thing. This guy may show up to work on time every day, great boss, great employee, faithful to his wife, great dad to his kids, pays his taxes, volunteers at the soup kitchen, etc., but thinks that as long as no one is directly hurt by his actions, taking money to perform these modifications is a-ok.
- grkvlt 8y ago> Running a shop to repair something that weighs north of forty tons implies you're a fairly ethical person Wait, so the weight of the machines someone repairs is somehow directly related to how ethical one it? Would a heavy industrial crane mechanic be even more ethical then? What about someone who works on a boat? A large cargo ship, maybe? And does it work the other way - someone who repairs cars is less ethical? And a wrist-watch repair man would have no ethics at all, I assume?
- aerovistae 8y agoAgreed, I didn't understand that remark at all.
- kemitche 8y agoYou're taking that phrase too literally. He's saying that someone in charge of operating or maintaining something as potentially deadly as a semi truck should hold themselves to higher standards of ethics, not that there's some sort of direct correlation between weight and ethics.
- grkvlt 8y agoThen he shouldn't have used the word 'implies' as a conjunction, he should have said 'ought to mean', or 'should require you to be' instead.
- ben509 8y agoThere's no discernible consequence to him not satisfying your hyper-literalism, so why "should" he use your preferred phrasing?
- grkvlt 8y agoI'd hardly call it hyper-literalism, since he's the one not using the English language properly - that is, he failed to communicate his ideas accurately.