B.L. Ochman's Ethics Blog: What's the most unethical thing you ever did in business? Confess, anonymously. We'll rate how bad you were.

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What’s the most unethical thing you’ve ever done in business? What’s the most unethical thing that’s been done to you? We’re not talking about taking home the office pencils.

Have you ever done anything like this?: Or has anyone done it to you?

  • Deceived a friend to win an account
  • Arranged to take several clients with you before you left a job
  • Allowed someone else to take the blame for a mistake you made
  • Gotten information about a competitor’s plan and used it to win the business you both were pitching

Confess it here anonymously (in 250 words or less.) EthicsCrisis.com readers will rate your confession on a scale of one to ten (from always acceptable to never acceptable)

Whether or not you make a confession to make, please click on the word “comments” under any confession and tell us why you voted the way you did, and/or what you think of the average rating others have given the confession.

Go ahead, get involved. Tell your story here. What’s the most unethical thing you’ve ever done or been done in by in business? (Please scroll down to read and rate current confessions.) Remember: ethics questions must relate to business situations.

“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution” – Oscar Wilde

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