Faithless Hound
A Life After Layoff
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How much law-breaking should you tolerate? In any large organisation, there are always a few scams going on, simply because a certain percentage of people will be dishonest. For instance, people who can get hold of goods from elsewhere (not the store cupboard) below cost, supposedly because they have links to a wholesaler. Are these stolen goods? If it's the porters, OK, but if managers are involved I wonder about their probity in other fields. Should you take part and become complicit? If you do, you will have to help hide what's going on.
When working for a charitable organisation 30 years ago, where some employees felt the need to donate part of their wages back, I learned that a tech guy who was helping computerise their accounts (which was not his main function) discovered that every employee's pay had been miscalculated, and always in a way that they received too little. When he pointed that out, the finance director pushed to have him made redundant.
Similarly when working in the state health sector in England, I found that it was routine for colleagues to make certain false statements to the social security people which saved the organisation money but did not, as far as I could see, benefit the clients. But it resulted in a lot of unnecessary paperwork for me. Here one organ of the state was siphoning off money from another organ, mainly because laws and rules had been written which did not take account of all situations.
These and other experiences explained to me why nuns and priests and religious organisations have for decades (or centuries?) felt free to make false statements about clients of schools, hospitals and care homes to parents and other authorities "for the greater good." It made well-meaning people complicit, and allowed others to get away with abuses.
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