Stealing as Moral?
I hear that last week of January is the most depressing of the year. It gives most people the blues. The NPR segment of Marketplace Money I heard Saturday, January 30th, certainly did nothing to dispel that myth for me. I feel like my mother after listening to this segment on Marketplace Money: What is this world coming to?
The link below is the interview of author Lisa Dobson who is selling a new book unbelievably named, The Underground Morality. There is nothing moral about this book. She advocates “market adjustments” by employees and managers to right their perceived economic wrong: Steal from your employer to give to other employees.
Tess Vigeland, the show host says nothing to challenge this reprehensible author, nor does she play this crazy concept forward in terms of what it means to our economy where employees blithely steal prom dresses, pad overtime and do other altruistic theft in the name of morality.
So Tess, why don’t you try this idea out on your show with staff interns or others YOU think are underpaid and lets just see how that all works out for you and the employee when you get caught. Maybe American Public Media will put out a policy on how to steal from them so all in your company can participate in the company’s new: Economic Market Adjustments Initiative Policy. I see a 40 page manual.
It seem Ms. Dobson found plenty of underground morality out there. That is what freaks me out. She wrote a whole book on how to steal. Hey, Ms. Smartypants-Big-Box Store Manager: Spend you own money buying a prom dress for your employee’s daughter instead of “finding one that didn’t sell” that you gave to your employee.
And you Mr-Pad-the-Overtime-Hours restaurant manager- why not start a general tip jar or find assistance, either from you, or other folks willing to help your workers instead of lie and steal from your employer. At no time in this segment was there even a mention of how to help struggling worker with their own money. It was all about theft from the employer.
Small businesses have lots on their plates to worry about and now we have this crazy woman out there telling employees it is moral to rip us off.
I have dealt with employee theft and it is heartbreaking to find out when trusted employees steal from you. I see in our culture this kind of incrementalism that hey, maybe stuff like this isn’s so bad? But it is wrong! Where does Dobson miss this? And how can she and Tess Vigeland not even see it?
Join me in challenging Ms Dobson and lets call what she characterizes as “underground morality” what it really is: Stealing. Contact me if you are with me. pady@scpromo.com
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