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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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[–] [email protected] 264 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

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+?


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[–] [email protected] 89 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like business ethics to me.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago

Ah yes. "Ethics."

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

And the student himself acting ethically despite thinking they're only 36/100

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

The teacher sold it to a different student who kissed his ass harder.

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[–] [email protected] 189 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Business ethics is the opposite of ethics.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

my business ethics professor was fired for sexually assaulting a student

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Oh, now I get it. So business ethics is just bizarro ethics.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't you mean Blizzard ethics?

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[–] chicken 160 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

They want those people as CEO's, not as workers.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Leate_Wonceslace 136 points 11 months ago (1 children)

36 seems like an accurate score for someone going to Business School.

[–] Sylence 57 points 11 months ago

For the most ethical of people going to business school. Everyone else lied.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Business school seems to be the exact polar opposite of therapy

[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago

American Psycho was a documentary.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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?"

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I guess the answer would be "but I have a job already"...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Yeah, and judging by how you immediately put down one of your students I suspect you lied to get it."

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

"Now you're getting it kid."

[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"ha ha no judgement (:" proceeds to judge

methinks professor is not very ethical

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Yeah, he said to lie

[–] [email protected] 63 points 11 months ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Anon learned his professor wants you to lie.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Counter with, "this isn't a job interview" or "I'm vying for a job in the oil and gas industry".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

The professor

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago

In business school

I think I found your problem.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago

"And I wouldn't want to work for a liar" is the obvious comeback to this.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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 🤷

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

well yeah. business 'school'.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Business school culture sucks, news at 11...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

Buddy, do I have news for you.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

It wasn't a test about how ethical you are, but how moral you are

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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?

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