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In a world where lying and cheating when it's convienient is considered professional, you're right.
by jcoffland 12y ago
In a world where lying and cheating when it's convienient is considered professional, you're right.
- angersock 12y agoWelcome to business!
- shmerl 12y agoYou mean unethical business.
- a1369209993 12y agoSo business.
- angersock 12y agoEthics don't enter into it--you might be thinking of negative externalities. That's the responsibility of the person running things next fiscal year. In the mean time, quit worrying and go deliver shareholder value.
- shmerl 12y ago> That's the responsibility of the person running things next fiscal year. In the mean time, quit worrying and go deliver shareholder value. No, that's a weird attitude (i.e. I'll create a mess today, next person will clean it tomorrow). One has to be responsible for the mess, and actually preventing it to begin with. What you described is exactly the lack of professionalism.
- angersock 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Comcast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Comcast It's only unprofessional if you're bad at it.
- shmerl 12y agoIt's unprofessional for normal companies. Unless you are talking about being a professional crook (and that's not what I'm talking about).
- angersock 12y agoLook, "professional" is a lie told by successful people to keep dullards in line. There is the almighty dollar, the pursuit of that dollar, and what you have to do to attain that dollar--if you aren't in this to get paid as much as the market will bear and damn the consequences, you sir are the unprofessional one. I get what you're saying, and I agree absolutely that it is a morally reprehensible thing to lie, cheat, or take the short-term approach to long-term problems. At the same time, you have to realize that anthropomorphizing companies is wrong. They are entities created to obtain profits, and any other reasoning about them is just going to cause you grief and distress. Accept that the system is made to generate non-corporeal profit-seeking amoral sociopaths, and move the fuck on.
- shmerl 12y ago> They are entities created to obtain profits No. It's a fake logic often used to excuse of kind of crooked behavior. This doesn't fly. Crooks are crooks, whether they are a company or not. Companies have those who drive them. If those people at the head can't control their own companies not to be crooks - too bad for them, they bear the responsibility.