Professor was acting unethically.
He claimed there would be no judgement, and then didn't follow through on that condition.
He also instructed the student to lie in the future.
Where is my A+?
taking a greentext as a true story
Sounds like business ethics to me.
Ah yes. "Ethics."
And the student himself acting ethically despite thinking they're only 36/100
The teacher sold it to a different student who kissed his ass harder.
Hypothetically, if you kidnapped the prof, tied him up and gagged him until he gave you an A, wouldn't you have earned it? Based on his example, and the voices in my head.
Business ethics is the opposite of ethics.
This guy looks like Walton Goggins during the reading of Pierce's will in Community.
Probably what businesses really want is unethical people who are competent at lying about it, and the professor was giving anon practical career advice if not actually ethical advice.
They want those people as CEO's, not as workers.
They still want workers who are willing to lie to protect the company. There's a reason why whistleblowers tend to be blackballed from their industries.
They still don't want an honest 95%+ ethical person in any role because it might conflict with the corporation's desire to have workers rationalize that the needs of the corporation are more important than ethics, ie not wanting to hire potential whistleblowers.
They want ethical but only to the point that they're willing to be unethical for the corporation, but not to the point that they'd ever be unethical towards the corporation. Basically sketchy 'ride or die' logic
They want them even more as middle managers.
The CEO's goal is to be able to say "we had the best intentions, I have no idea how it went so badly", and that requires a bunch of layers of middlemen who are willing to do anything to meet targets
What businesses want are unethical people, but only towards everyone else. To them you must always be the pretty prim diamond unicorn princess who shit's rainbows and profit.
36 seems like an accurate score for someone going to Business School.
For the most ethical of people going to business school. Everyone else lied.
Business school seems to be the exact polar opposite of therapy
American Psycho was a documentary.
Anon had a massive dunk on his professor lined up.
"You said there would be no judgement and said that people should lie rather than put an accurate score on an ethics survey. Wouldn't that make your score lower than 36 then?"
The professor probably would have responded that his response was another part of the lesson: don't trust those above you in a business setting.
"ha ha no judgement (:" proceeds to judge
methinks professor is not very ethical
Yeah, he said to lie
Goes to business school, shock that the people are twats. Yeah, they are going to school to learn how to be the owner class, what you expect, empathy?
Anon learned his professor wants you to lie.
kinda par for the course... literally a business course so....
Counter with, "this isn't a job interview" or "I'm vying for a job in the oil and gas industry".
The professor
Should have just said they were going to become a politician.
In business school
I think I found your problem.
I accidentally ended up at a religious university for medical school and you better believe I've gotten in numerous fights with the law and ethics professor (who, to be fair, is actually a MD/JD) regarding the prescribed conservative religious approach to the ethics discussions. I absolutely did not change his mind, but I did get a bunch of my classmates to start asking questions by putting myself out there and challenging the professor on their BS.
Edit: I should clarify that these fights were on mic in the recorded lectures, so there's a hard record of my arguing with him.
I accidentally ended up at a religious university for medical school
Oh, yeah, we've all been there.
Also, religion and medicine don't seem like things that should mix. They are bringing preconceived notions to the table that are not supposed by logic, that seems dangerous in the medical setting
Thankfully, the extent of the religion in the education is in the ethics discussions and strong recommendations to discuss spirituality and religion with your patients because faith communities are "very important". The religion does not make it into any of the actual medicine or science.
religious university
medical school
Alright class, now that we've removed the patient's lungs, we're gonna pray he gets better. Yes, I see a raised hand in the back row?
Yes, sorry - doesn't he need a lung to survive?
Right, good catch. We're first going to pray he grows a lung. Yes, you with the notebook?
Who will be doing the closing?
That'll be sister Jane. Sister, 12 "hail Marys" and a closing prayer, please. Class dismissed.
And then I guess y'all watch as the man flatlines while the nuns go "please give this one some sutures God, I promise I'll be good from now on" and "God, if ever you were going to grow organs, please, now's the time. The man can't breathe. It's not his fault"
Sounds like a good time. Do they give degrees or do you need to pray to get hired?
"And I wouldn't want to work for a liar" is the obvious comeback to this.
I'd say that this is one of the few exceptions to the "those who can't do teach" stereotype being bullshit but clearly he sucks at teaching others ethics as much as he sucks at being ethical in his own behavior 🤷
I guess I look at this as the teacher setting the tone early to disabuse the students of any false notions of what the ethics class actually is. Shame they did it in such a shitty way, but I see that as part of their point too. I'm not sure I believe the scenario is necessarily real, but if it is, the message would be appear to be that going forward everyone must understand that this isn't going to be about how to be ethical, but how to appear to meet artificial requirements that pay lip service to ethics. A teaching to the test kind of approach.
Teaching explicitly that they should act unethically (lie about their ethical convictions) to ensure they meet future expectations of falsely signalled ethics, and teaching that through a pretty unethical act of deception and public humiliation delivers this message quite succinctly and makes it pretty clear what to expect here on in.
Those who can't do teach, and those who can't teach manage. After working with normal people, teachers and managers I have concluded that managers should be excluded from homo sapiens sapiens. They are more like chimpanzees with some learnt behaviours that they don't fully understand but will perform for a treat.
I don't actually think I know what a manager is. I've always thought it was synonymous with supervisor, but I'm a supervisor and I do all the work the guys I work with do plus the "manager" responsibilities. There is no time where I'm just sitting around sipping coffee or whatever the memes are. I'm building shit and fixing the problems my team come across.
I guess I've just never worked in a place where I've had the kind of management people complain about.
Nah, he wants to see if anon can be shamed about his lack of ethics.
If he is shameless, CEO behavior.
If he is ashamed, McDonald's behavior.
If you lie about it, then just par for the course and you can be a broker anywhere. Gotta feed out the line to find the narcissistic socios and not the stealthy ones.
Aye same thought. He was testing the group. OP should have been blunt like "IDGAF and was the only one of you honest enough to admit it"
Business school culture sucks, news at 11...
Agree, with arguments: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/27/bulldoze-the-business-school
On the one hand, this is a great article. On the other, I now have to go the rest of my day knowing that I said that about an article published by the Guardian.
Listening to professors who are also chief officers of companies tickle the balls of capitalistic idealogies to young adults fresh out of high school.
that is business school, yes.
There's a Harvard Professor named Richard Wolfe who always likes to tickle his audience by asking the question "Why do universities have an Economics department that's distinct and separate from the Business School?" And then he gets into the distinctions between the western ideology around economic planning relative to the practical education around running an efficient business.
The People's Republic of Walmart also goes into this bifrication of western understanding of efficient economic practices. Theorists preach the value of competition and choice and flexibility and auction pricing, while successful CEOs tend to prefer strict hierarchies over regional monopolies with steady schedules and well-defined quotas and flat fees.
why are ethics and sustainability in the same class? They are 2 different fields. It'd be like lumping a sociology and math class together.
Buddy, do I have news for you.
In a business school they're the same thing: stuff we have to put on the syllabus so it looks like we care about them.
It's not like they actually teach those subjects, they just need to appear on the timetable. So putting them together works fine.
I'm not actually sure what the point of this greentext is supposed to be.
It's very clearly not a true story. Not particularly funny. Is this just a circle jerk for insulting people who wear a suit and tie to work?
The right hates colleges. Might be one of those people.
Don't mind the suit and tie, just the unethical practices every single major businesses handles in.
They're honestly the worst
It wasn't a test about how ethical you are, but how moral you are
Any other place you’d be on the fast track to management.
Be ethical by lying about being ethical!
Look in his face and say 'that was an 8, not a 3'
You sir are going places...maybe prison or ceo...maybe both
I woulda told him to practice his preachings
I'm with the professor on this. If you self-identify as a mostly unethical person, I'd fire you too. I disagree with encouraging him to lie in the future though. 2 times out of 3, this guy says he'll make a shady choice.
The professor can’t be right, he said no judgement, be honest and judged an honest answer not for the frame of mind that lead anon to believe it, but rather for being honest (which he himself asked it to be), so I can’t see any valuable lesson here.
That's right everyone, the ethical thing to do is lie and the professor was right to publicly shame anon for not lying. What a great point to make.
The scale is subjectively relative though. Maybe anon feels that because they eat meat, don't recycle, don't tip well, etc, that he is acting unethically. By that scale, he's probably significantly much more ethical than someone without that awareness.
Plenty of self hating people from former hyper religious households out there too. A lot of people in general, who hate themselves and don't come from a religious household.
If a job asks you to rate your own morality, 9/10 times it's a shit job as jobs worth having don't ask this kind of bullshit.
So any firing would be sparing someone from a shitty employment.
The irony being that the person who rates themselves as unethical is actually likely to be one of the most ethical people answering; someone truly unethical would've lied about it in the first place, or failed to even notice or acknowledge their unethicalness.
I disagree. People like this will put any of their own gain above their morality. And if we look at this rationally, sure at first that means you will start living comfortable. But if everyone does what you do, the world around you would suck. And I'm sorry, I don't want the world around me to suck, even if I have to sacrifice some potential gain for that.
And this is why, even as a completely egotistical asshole, your goals should be noble, even if only for your own sake.
And this is also why no one should promote lying if there's not a damn good reason. This is not a damn good reason.
And on top of that, he's so stupid that the 1 on 3 he does the right thing is revealing that. If not fired for being un ethical, fire because he's an idiot.
