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No it’s not. If the shitty company at your shitty job pays you to lie to people it is a matter of corporate policy. Of course the individual has some responsibi
by zztop44 3y ago
No it’s not. If the shitty company at your shitty job pays you to lie to people it is a matter of corporate policy. Of course the individual has some responsibility, but the corporation has more.
- sneak 3y agoWould you lie if your boss told you to lie?
- zztop44 3y agoI mean, it depends? Is there a good reason? How bad is the lie? Who am I lying to? Am I at risk of being fired if I don’t? Do I really need the job or not so much? Why? Do you never ever lie?
- gonehome 3y agoI think generally it’s better to never lie outside of a few rare corner cases (mostly around avoiding violence). Those corner cases have basically never come up in my life (stuff like the SS coming to your door and asking if you’re hiding Jews). Most of the times people justify their own lying they’re wrong to do so imo.
- darkwater 3y agoDoes your boss even tell you explicitly to lie or just to calm and reassure the user and pass the info down to someone else?
- rolph 3y agoWould you lie to your boss about if, you lied or not, according to directions
- datapolitical 3y agoIf your job is paying you to beat up pregnant women, would you still say that it was primarily on the corporation? People are responsible for their own moral choices.
- rford 3y agoIs beating a pregnant woman the same as giving poor customer support? What is the morality of working a customer support job to support yourself, if the company you work for gives poor customer support as a matter of policy/choice? Would that make you a bad person? If you do business with such a company, and make the mistake of calling for customer support, what would that say about you?
- zztop44 3y agoIt depends, I guess? If someone was going around offering anyone $10m to beat up a pregnant woman, then yeah I’d say they are the main person to blame if a pregnant woman gets beat up as a result. Again, that’s not to say that the person who did the beating isn’t also responsible.
- nkrisc 3y agoYou’re still responsible for your own actions. Sure, someone else may be complicit and share responsibility for coercing you or creating perverse incentives to motivate you to make a particular choice, but you still choose your actions.