With all the recent happenings in the U.S. economy and business world (incompetence, illegalities, and greed) you have to wonder what has happened to the common ideal of corporate and personal ethics.
I'm not going to go on a long rant here, but just recall a conversation I had with my father in December 1990 about ethics and dealing with people that seem to not have any. It related to a recent event in my work life that led me to leave my company. Bottom line is that he told me to keep my head up and continue on. To hold to the things he and my mother had instilled into me about doing the 'right thing'.
He later sent me an article from the newspaper that talked about the 'problem' of ethical behaviour by todays society. That was in 1990, and looking at todays news it makes me wonder have we improved at all or are we in a continous state of entropy. I'm going to look for the article and will try to post some of it as best as I can here in the next week or so.
For the last few years I have been working for Consulting type companies. At times it has been fun and others I wonder why I did this to myself. Right now I'm out of my home town on a project and regretting the travel involved. I do go home every weekend, but with the weather this time of year (December) in Colorado it can be a bit of a gamble.
Today there is a major snow storm in Colorado and I am wondering if I am going to be able to fly home tomorrow. I will have to play the phone game with the airline and live on the "Standby" list for flights if my flight gets cancelled. Oh joy!
So for anyone thinking about going into consulting/contracting you may have to travel for your work. Just keep in mind that you will get "stuck" somewhere sometime, part of the personal price you pay for those "Consulting Dollars".
As you can see from the WebLog title I am a bit sarcastic and cynical about this thing we call Software Testing. Over my years of experience in Software Development and Testing I have seen some very very Dilbert things happen.
Hopefully this Blog will be a good place for you to learn from some of the things I have experienced and allow you to be more effective in your efforts in Software Testing.
• March 16, 2009 - Ethics - what does that mean in today's world
With all the recent happenings in the U.S. economy and business world (incompetence, illegalities, and greed) you have to wonder what has happened to the common ideal of corporate and personal ethics.
I'm not going to go on a long rant here, but just recall a conversation I had with my father in December 1990 about ethics and dealing with people that seem to not have any. It related to a recent event in my work life that led me to leave my company. Bottom line is that he told me to keep my head up and continue on. To hold to the things he and my mother had instilled into me about doing the 'right thing'.
He later sent me an article from the newspaper that talked about the 'problem' of ethical behaviour by todays society. That was in 1990, and looking at todays news it makes me wonder have we improved at all or are we in a continous state of entropy. I'm going to look for the article and will try to post some of it as best as I can here in the next week or so.
Till then, be good people.