{"id":2149,"date":"2013-11-20T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2014-02-04T21:00:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T21:00:45","slug":"facing-down-imorality-might-not-pay-but-is-the-only-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/facing-down-imorality-might-not-pay-but-is-the-only-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing down immorality might not pay, but it&#8217;s the only option."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethical Corp, an on-online magazine, published an article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalcorp.com\/people-careers\/globalethicist-%E2%80%93-executive-whistle-blowing-what-do-when-no-one-listens\">Executive whistle blowing: what to do when no one listens<\/a> (with useful comments too). \u00a0 It is difficult to broach the subject of dealing with immoral behaviour in companies because people who are immoral don&#8217;t care and those that do can rarely change the culture.\u00a0 The culture comes from the top and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/fish-rot-from-the-head-down.html\">the fish starts to stink at the head<\/a>&#8220;, so you play along or suffer or get out.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, nowadays there are options.\u00a0 You can find a better place to work.\u00a0 You can take legal action (in some cases).\u00a0 You can kick up a fuss and people will listen.\u00a0 You still might lose your job and fail to get compensation.\u00a0 But you will feel better and you will survive and your track record of bona fides will serve you well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethical Corp, an on-online magazine, published an article\u00a0Executive whistle blowing: what to do when no one listens (with useful comments too). \u00a0 It is difficult to broach the subject of dealing with immoral behaviour in companies because people who are immoral don&#8217;t care and those that do can rarely change the culture.\u00a0 The culture comes &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/facing-down-imorality-might-not-pay-but-is-the-only-option\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facing down immorality might not pay, but it&#8217;s the only option.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-responsible-investing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-yF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}