.. do unethical stuff at work/office?

I'm writing a paper on this and need feedback. All kinds of info would be helpful, I will keep it anynymous..

Like chatting, taking longer breaks than necessary, eating co-worker's food from the common room/kitchen fridge, stealing office stationary, hitting on co-workers, planning the murder of your boss, anything and everything that u should not do but do it anyway....

Everybody does these things to a degree. Only two variables here :

1.How shitty the job is
2.What hick heritage you poses

Well, I'm usually looking at the news and a couple of forums while i'm at work, so not really a crime, but nevertheless it's against company policy.

I'm looking at these forums from work right now.

"planning the murder of your boss"? That's a bit extreme isn't it? I thought most people would just quit...

About the planning the murder of my boss..In my mind, there isn't any planning. I hate the fucker so much I'd do it in front of everyone. More than once I was extremly tempted to walk up to his desk lean over rip out his jaw with my bare hands an ram the sharp end into his throat..I'd have no regrets, but maybe thats just because I'm just a cold person.

facaldo:
.. do unethical stuff at work/office?

I'm writing a paper on this and need feedback. All kinds of info would be helpful, I will keep it anynymous..

Like chatting, taking longer breaks than necessary, eating co-worker's food from the common room/kitchen fridge, stealing office stationary, hitting on co-workers, planning the murder of your boss, anything and everything that u should not do but do it anyway....

What a moronic question. It shows a real lack of any insight or purpose. These are more moral questions than ethical ones.

If you want to ask about ethics maybe you should learn about them first.

Perhaps you should rephrase the question to "Who here breaks the rules at work?". In, say, a family business "chatting, taking longer breaks than necessary, eating co-worker's food from the common room/kitchen fridge", etc might be allowed. I realise that not everyone works in a family business, but certain workplaces are more lax than others, get what I mean?

goodman528:
"planning the murder of your boss"? That's a bit extreme isn't it? I thought most people would just quit...

Ah, but it's always nice to dream, isn't it?

beddo:

facaldo:
.. do unethical stuff at work/office?

I'm writing a paper on this and need feedback. All kinds of info would be helpful, I will keep it anynymous..

Like chatting, taking longer breaks than necessary, eating co-worker's food from the common room/kitchen fridge, stealing office stationary, hitting on co-workers, planning the murder of your boss, anything and everything that u should not do but do it anyway....

What a moronic question. It shows a real lack of any insight or purpose. These are more moral questions than ethical ones.

If you want to ask about ethics maybe you should learn about them first.

As a philosophy minor, allow me to say that you seem to be the one confused here.

unethical?

you mean do I routinely pull the plug on vegetables?

Yes, I do.

Some days, I'll take a half-hour break when I'm supposed to have a fifteen minute one.

Oh, and I once spent an entire shift in the stockroom "taking inventory", when all I was really doing was playing cards with the real stock guys.

I work in a kitchen, and usually pick at the salads etc whilst i'm serving. I wash my hands though ;)

I also wait until way after my break before going back to work, no-one seems to notice :D

Well at school the other week I was on first lunch, but my best friends had second lunch so i had my lunch, their lunch then the 15 minutes of the time that we can go over before its classed as late, and when my teacher asked me why i was coming into the class so late i just said yes. it wasnt proper lessons so i didnt need to be there, im doing my GCSE's I dont need crappy creativity days

I'm supervisor at work and I often give double length breaks to those working 8 hours and half hours breaks to those working 4 hours where they should get none. I do the evening shift so all the bosses have gone home by 4pm and I'm in charge from then on. We usually get all the work that needs to be done finished by about 6pm then sit around until quitting time talking or texting.

I dont think i have every posted on this website when i wasn't at work. And yeah i'm forever late, or leaving early. Never attempted to murder my boss but i've got a life time of mindnumbing work to do that one in.

oh my yes.

In the summer I work in a large outdoor area, so there is no way for people to actually supervise you. Sleeping during work? Done it. Drinking/smoking weed during work? Done it. Sat in a hammock and read during work? Done it. Sat on my ass and stared at the clouds for hours during work? Done it.

I got a highly positive employee review as well, and I'm lined up to return this summer. Best job ever.

I work a food service job right now and grab bits of food to snack on while I'm on the clock. Everyone does, and the managers know, they just don't really care.

Slowly emptying the water cooler......
Playing solitaire on the PCs.
By passing the simple internet filter they have.
Playing DEFCON in windowed mode.
Flirting too much.

I used to be a cashier at Giant, and I would take candy that would have been marked as damaged (some kid opened it and their parents couldn't afford it) and eat it, and I would avoid customers by ducking behind my register and pretending to look for something or turning my light off when managers weren't around. When I pushed carts I would sit on the bench drinking soda and listening to music when my managers weren't around.

facaldo:
.. do unethical stuff at work/office?

I'm writing a paper on this and need feedback. All kinds of info would be helpful, I will keep it anynymous..

Like chatting, taking longer breaks than necessary, eating co-worker's food from the common room/kitchen fridge, stealing office stationary, hitting on co-workers, planning the murder of your boss, anything and everything that u should not do but do it anyway....

You know I can't even count anymore how many managers I have murdered, maybe Its an addiction, I just don't know!

xitel:
I used to be a cashier at Giant, and I would take candy that would have been marked as damaged (some kid opened it and their parents couldn't afford it) and eat it, and I would avoid customers by ducking behind my register and pretending to look for something or turning my light off when managers weren't around.

I'm never going to be able to get that image out of my head when I see store clerks seemingly rummaging around below counter.

slayermaster:
xD

Helpful!

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beddo:

facaldo:
.. do unethical stuff at work/office?

I'm writing a paper on this and need feedback. All kinds of info would be helpful, I will keep it anynymous..

Like chatting, taking longer breaks than necessary, eating co-worker's food from the common room/kitchen fridge, stealing office stationary, hitting on co-workers, planning the murder of your boss, anything and everything that u should not do but do it anyway....

What a moronic question. It shows a real lack of any insight or purpose. These are more moral questions than ethical ones.

If you want to ask about ethics maybe you should learn about them first.

As a philosophy minor, allow me to say that you seem to be the one confused here.

Oh really, a whole minor in philosophy, well I should just give up my argument then. Clearly the examples given relate more to a moral code of conduct than an ethical code of conduct. While both are covered, the rationale is not specific enough to derive what is ethical from what is moral.

Apparently I came off as pompous by mentioning the philosphy minor, and for that I apologize.

However, to say there is anything different about unethical behavior and immoral behavior is merely arguing semantics, particularly in this case when the exact defenition doesn't even really matter.

Even if it were, "unethical" is far more accurate than "immoral." The latter infers a knowledge of wrong-doing, and I hardly think anyone who steals a pencil from work is convinced they're going to hell for doing so. On the other hand (and yes, I know this is going to be a very narrow definition), unethical more often implies breaking some kind of moral guideline.

Molikroth:

xitel:
I used to be a cashier at Giant, and I would take candy that would have been marked as damaged (some kid opened it and their parents couldn't afford it) and eat it, and I would avoid customers by ducking behind my register and pretending to look for something or turning my light off when managers weren't around.

I'm never going to be able to get that image out of my head when I see store clerks seemingly rummaging around below counter.

Yeah, we all did it. We'd see a customer coming when we had maybe one minute left before sign-out, so we'd duck below the counter and look for more plastic bags or something, and by the time we came back up the customer would be gone and we could go home.

at my old job i would stand in the middle of the track and think up new swears every time i so a car pull in

xitel:
Yeah, we all did it. We'd see a customer coming when we had maybe one minute left before sign-out, so we'd duck below the counter and look for more plastic bags or something, and by the time we came back up the customer would be gone and we could go home.

I misread the post I quoted earlier... The way I read it, I was imagining you ducking beneath the counter to stuff your face with candy. =D

facaldo:
.. do unethical stuff at work/office?

I'm writing a paper on this and need feedback. All kinds of info would be helpful, I will keep it anynymous..

Like chatting, taking longer breaks than necessary, eating co-worker's food from the common room/kitchen fridge, stealing office stationary, hitting on co-workers, planning the murder of your boss, anything and everything that u should not do but do it anyway....

Recharging phones/PDA's off the supply, discounting undamaged products, pushing books you like rather than 'approved' ones, having sex during working hours...

Nah, never heard of that.

In short: no.

To elaborate: NO

The closest to unethical I've got is repairing 'broken' parts returned by customers and fitting them to my bike(s). As opposed to sending them back to Shimano, who destroy them. The local sales rep prefers this as it saves him a form to fill in, I like it because I'm kept in spare parts.

i've memorised most of my colleagues passwords so i can get into systems i dont have access to...although to be fair thats mostly just because it makes my job easier...and the douchebags at work haven't given me the right access privaleges to do my job><
but yeah the usual longer breaks etc. i also leave early...no one notices XD the only other person in my corner of the office leaves before me anyway. we have these sheets we have to fill out to say what we did at what time..i fill in the same thing every day no matter what i've done...i text friends while im on the phone to customers as well..XD and as soon as i work out how to enable msn...XD
i tend to pick and chose my work....i only do the bits i feel like...esp at the end of the day....

snowplow:
unethical?

you mean do I routinely pull the plug on vegetables?

Yes, I do.

MURDERER! VEGETANASIA IS WRONG!

Lvl 64 Klutz:

beddo:

facaldo:
.. do unethical stuff at work/office?

I'm writing a paper on this and need feedback. All kinds of info would be helpful, I will keep it anynymous..

Like chatting, taking longer breaks than necessary, eating co-worker's food from the common room/kitchen fridge, stealing office stationary, hitting on co-workers, planning the murder of your boss, anything and everything that u should not do but do it anyway....

What a moronic question. It shows a real lack of any insight or purpose. These are more moral questions than ethical ones.

If you want to ask about ethics maybe you should learn about them first.

As a philosophy minor, allow me to say that you seem to be the one confused here.

PWNT.