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Saturday, September 27, 2008

True that education preaches you information, not ethics

People in my corporate complaint about the behavior of vendor bus drivers among other things. I often thought that some "professionals", again, some "professionals" had to be taught about ethics as well.

1.) Often these people stand near the traffic signal and wave their hands to stop the bus. It is a common sense (you need not be a BE) to stand 100-200 meters after the signal.
2.) All the buses are air suspended and hence have push back. Some buses have minimal leg room and people often tend to push back the seats, unknowing the discomfort of people sitting behind. Most importantly they do not keep the seats upright back again when they get down. This makes the person sitting behind difficult to move out of his seat when he has to get down.
3.) Some people do not hear songs using head phone. They keep their mobile's speaker on. Not all people will be in sync mood while traveling you see. Common sense man. Mobile phones are for personal use. Enjoy your songs in private.
4.) Trying to be relaxed and to show off a "cool" guy image they keep their hands as head rest. You could imagine the person sitting next to him trying to put his nose near the window. You know what I mean I believe.
5.) Do not disturb the driver while he is driving. Even school kids know this. Guys sitting in the front seat continuously talk to the driver showing off their "closeness" to the driver. Man...most irritating scenes. Because the guys talk, drivers often get distracted and drive slow.
6.) You do not believe that these "professionals" throwing wastes such as bubble gum wrappers, biscuit papers etc...You know that these will land ultimately in the lap of people sitting behind. Again common sense. Thank God, I have not seen them spitting yet.

I strongly believe that a person is educated when he has ethics and common sense.

One of the worst behavior of my corporate people is with the lift and the office door. As far as I think there are a couple of lift ethics.

1.) Stand behind the people already waiting for lift. Allow them to go first into it.
2.) Maintain silence inside the lift. Do not giggle to show off your gang image. Respect the mood of others inside.
3.) Wait for the people to get out of the lift before you move in. Also, give them path to leave the lift area.

Oh..yes with the office door..I do not know if I am swiping cards for others to get out. If I open the door, people get out as if I am a gate keeper. Ha ha ha.. People, please wait for others to get in/out whoever has swiped first. Leave them way. Please hold the door open if you see people behind you swiping.

Much much more guys...Discipline will make us grow exponentially. I would suggest my company to teach fresh pass outs ethical behavior during the initial "training". Hmmmm...

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Unknown said...

May be, I did some of the above non sense activities at some point of time knowingly or unknowingly but now its time to think…Really nice one…

Arun Thilak said...

No one is perfect! But, it is the amount of ridiculousness we do determines the level of ethical culture we have within us. In other words, common sense.

There was one idiot who left a bubble gum on the chair. Why are these guys coming to office?

Certainly our employer needs to teach everyone some ethics to everyone (not just freshmans, but also to some experienced people )


Nice blog man ...