Ethics Experts Reside in Ivory Towers
* As the ethics officer for a transportation agency, I was very interested in the comments made by professors Arvind Bhambri and William Cockrum on whether an employee should snitch on their employer for using unauthorized software [“A Pitch to Snitch,” Aug. 14].
They both seem to indicate that if the employee did not approve of the company’s practices, the employee should resign. While I would agree that in a perfect world one of the options when one’s employer does not act in an ethical manner is to simply resign, I am afraid most of us do not have this option. Many employees are scared to even report such conduct to their immediate supervisor at the risk of repercussions.
THOMAS EDWARD WALL
Rancho Palos Verdes
* Illegally copying software is stealing. Conceptually, in the workplace, it is no different than buying a technical reference book and making hundreds of copies for your employees.
Theft is theft.
SAM BRUNSTEIN
Glendale
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