When I was working for the RJ Reynolds project I considered whether I was being hypocritical. Although I smoked at the time I certainly did not believe the company p.c. that smoking was not harmful. I decided that since this was a discovery project I was helping the lawsuit agaist them. The grey area became greyer when guidelines came down that were clearly designed to make the database results difficult and expensive to use, but simply refusing to comply with them would merely have gotten me replaced. I silently ignored them for a while but this was noticed... I was quality control on this project and it really drove me nuts :)
I see no particular problem with wanting employees who really believe in what they are doing. I also once worked for a Christian ISP and while nobody insisted that I be baptised or anything we were expected to maintain a certain integrity in our dealings with people. I thnk this is a reasonable demand. As for the ethics of RJ Reynolds...if the employer is evil and the employer has a right to your best effort... hmpphh. I still dunno if I was rationalizing. At least in part, probably :) Dana On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:32:33 -0400, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Saying one thing and doing another is hypocrisy. > > When providing for your self and family is on the line, hypocrisy is > completely acceptable to me. I know have done it before. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:31 PM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: Re: Company bans smoking... >> >> I did a contract for a law firm. When I was there I worked for them. >> When >> I >> wasn't, I was my own person with my own ideas that may have contradicted >> the law >> firm. Working for a company with ideals you don't believe in is not >> hypocrisy, >> it's employment. >> >> >> > You know, this ain't too bad. Given what they sell, I don't see a >> problem >> > with them demanding their employees not be hypocrites. >> > >> > > -----Original Message----- >> > > From: Howie Hamlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:09 PM >> > > To: CF-Community >> > > Subject: Company bans smoking... >> > > >> > > ...even when the employees are not on company premises. >> > > >> > > http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/Offbeat/0,5583,2-1343- >> > > 1347_1372697,00.html >> > > >> > >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
