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Are there snakes in business who would break the rules or act beyond good consience? of course there are.
But I argue that they are few and far between.
I've met plenty of CEOs, CFO's, exectutive VPs, business leaders in my career and one thing impressed me the most and was a common thread, their ethics. They got to where they were by being good people, and they demonstrated a great responsibility to community and country.
I believe the snakes and sleezy businessmen are the exception and not the rule and should be painted with a very narrow brush.
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The definition of ethics and good conscience is a little different for big company management.
For example, if your full time employee, a single mother, was barely making ends meet and struggling to provide for her child on the hourly wage you pay her, would you cut her hours by a half to make her a part time employee, so you wouldn't have to provide her with minimal health care coverage? Big companies are doing that right and left, it is standard practice at restaurant chains.
When she tries to find a second job so that she can make rent every month, would you tell her that her work schedule each week won't be determined until the preceding week, so she won't know when she can and can't work at that second job? Again, big companies do that all the time.
Maybe you want to have her searched after every shift to make sure she's not stealing, and you require her to wait in your office for half an hour every day for you to get around to doing the search, would you refuse to pay her for that half hour a day, claiming it isn't "work"? Big companies do that to thousands of workers every day.
Yes, big company CEOs go to church and donate to charities and might help an old lady across the street. That doesn't mean they don't do things in large scale to millions of anonymous workers, that most of us wouldn't do face to face.