Message #43261

[raindance]

Many moons ago I worked for an international businessman, whose agent in the city where I worked was less than honest and took a vast sum of money (I mean millions) from my employer.  It was settled fairly quietly, but it was my first exposure to these sorts of practices.  

At the other end of the spectrum, I had to deal with a receptionist at one of my workplaces who spent all day on email to her friends and put the switchboard on answer-machine whilst she trotted off to make calls on her mobile to her friends.  Then there was a temporary assistant I had who appeared to have "lost" ten years somewhere on her CV - so cleverly concealed that I had to plot out her jobs and assignments in order to discover that she couldn't account for a good half of her working life!  What twanged my antennae in her case was that she claimed to have studied at the same business college as me, but didn't know any of the other staff or students.  I can't resist a puzzle ...  She left soon after, because Bossie eventually realized that she didn't cut the mustard, so to speak.

I could tell a few other horror stories.  What I would do in any matter of dishonesty would depend on the gravity of the situation.  One always has to bear in mind that if you know about something really serious and the matter comes to light, and it also comes to light that you knew and did nothing, then you also might be in trouble.  

I guess what I am trying to say is that one has to use one's judgement in what one does with information.  It can take real courage to blow the whistle.


Raindance