Is it unethical if he gets new business for this company?
My company is all but broke, with a greatly reduced staff funded by a few existing contracts. These we are serving properly. However, my job entails seeking contracts for new business with these entities. We are trying to sell the company, and expect to have a resolution within 3 months.
If we can sell, and if we sell to the right type of buyer, there will be an ability and an interest in fulfilling these new contracts. However, if we fail to sell, or sell to a buyer with different interests, we may leave the client in the lurch.
Am I being unethical in pursuing new business under these conditions? There are financial benefits to me if we sell, otherwise I would no longer be here.
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People at my company take home tons of office supplies
Here’s the most recent anonymous confession received at Ethics Crisis Blog. Personally, I think this confession describes common thievery, and find it unacceptable. What do you think? Please enter your vote below, and also feel free to comment.
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Several (actually a lot) people in my company use the supply room like it is a stationary store. They take home envelopes, tape, pens, staplers, paper, you name it. Nobody tries to hide what they’re doing and this seems to be accepted procedure. I don’t say anything because I don’t want to seem like the office snitch. Still, it bothers me. (Name Withheld)
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Gave a friend an advantage in a bidding process
From what I’ve seen, a lot of people do this for friends and relatives, but it’s fraud, pure and simple.
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Brought a friend who really needed the work into a bidding process and let him know what others bid so he’d be able to win the job. (author: Anonymous)
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Lied to my boss to protect my friend
This anonymous confession from an Ethics Crisis reader strikes me as one of those things anyone would do for a friend. I think this one is a “white lie” and would immediately forgive the person. How about you? Rate this confession on a scale of 1-10, below.
I sent a friend’s resume to my boss, who responded “I don’t hire people with typos in their resumes!”
I corrected the typo and re-sent it to my boss, apologizing, and saying that I had sent the wrong version from my friend. (author: Anonymous)
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Ethics Crisis Blog is baaaaack!
 Ethics – corporate, government, personal – are too important for us not to bring back Ethics Crisis Blog. I created this blog in 2004 – pre-Twitter, pre-Facebook wall posts – for a client who’s since moved into another business.
I never took Ethics Crisis Blog down because people kept voting on the confessions, and it soon became apparent that you’d probably have to be a mass murderer for people to collectively condemn your unethical behavior.
So, here we are in the most ethics-challenged era, perhaps ever, and I figure people might like a friendly place to ANONYMOUSLY (really, I don’t know who the confessors are) confess their ethics transgressions so the rest of us can sit in judgment. :>)
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Confess the most unethical thing you ever did in business. Readers will rate how bad you are.
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I set up my boss so I could have his job
I anonymously made allegations through the business practices anonymous 800 # that my boss was hiring vendors based on favors. He was investigated and consequently fired even though none of the allegations were proved. I was promoted to his position after he was fired.
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I Lied to Get New Business
In an effort to obtain business from an existing client I claimed we were working with several clients (6) in the same industry. One of the clients I listed is not currently a client but one we have spoken with for two years now. Turns out the person I am selling to knows the CEO of the company I’m talking to. I realize I misrepresented the truth. I lied.
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I doctored an email, blamed it on technology
Our company was getting raked over the coals for far too long and I was tired of being the punching bag for the client as the account lead. We screwed something up (minor, overpaid for a budget line item that was outside of their internal policy).
I took an existing email from the sourcing department and changed the wording of the email to suggest we had been given authorization…and sent it back to the client, under the guise of an acceptable email. ..the discrepancy was noticed and I lied, blaming it on a glitch in technology that sent 2 different versions of a similar reply.
Continued to lie when the Director of Marketing called me on the discrepancy and only came clean to my boss (2 months later) when our agency was about to get fired.
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