Ethics in the Workplace
I just recently started my work study job at University Hospital working with a department manager who is unable to see the line drawn between work and personal things. I have been working with her for two weeks now, and all I have done, for ten hours a week, is plan out her power point presentation for her 30th high school reunion. Her department paid me $180 to do something she should have done on her on time without using company resources. Not only was she using their money to pay me to do it, I had to copy ten books, each with one hundred pages in it, using up 1000 sheets of company paper, not to mention the toner and other resources I had to use to complete her project that was entirely unrelated to work. Essentially my boss is stealing from her company. She may or may not look at it like that but most people would see it the same way I do .This is a really good example of a lack of ethics in the workplace. My boss seems to think is acceptable to use company money and resources to complete her personal projects that have no business in the workplace. She had the entire department focused on her high school reunion. They were all spending time when they should have been working, coming up with new ideas for her reunion. I think that is a very unacceptable and inefficient way to manage a department.
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