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Topic	Is it ok to lie at work, morally-speaking?
Unbridled9 12/07/18 9:57:48 AM #17:	JCvgluvr posted... While I expected all the lying at work options to be popular, I did NOT think the lying everywhere option would be the highest! Just can't trust people these days...tsk, tsk, tsk! It's not that simple. Like, if you're working as a cashier on a line and it's gotten really badly backed up and you get a customer insisting that X item is on sale despite no evidence at all that it is... Not only are you going to eventually need to tell them a lie to get them off your back (assuming calling management isn't an option which it isn't always) but you lose a little bit of your own free will. You might see it as you getting that extra ten cents off on that can of tuna. They might see it as the last little bit of patience, happiness, and fleeting tatter of their soul being ripped away by some cheapskate who couldn't grasp that they were buying salmon and not tuna. Eventually nothing is left and, when that happens, you just... stop caring. Every customer INSISTS that there's more in the back. No matter what is actually in the back. Sure, sometimes the product is in the back; but that's not going to be the case most of the time. So instead of wasting their time going to check for a product that isn't there, just tell them that it isn't there and get back to doing something that isn't dealing with a customer? Remember, to them you're not someone who is in a life or death scenario which will be decided if you have an extra bottle of apple juice in the back. You're an annoying brat who is demanding an obviously out-of-stock product who has an intelligence rivaled only by pineapples since you can't grasp the concept of 'we are out of stock' and is stopping them from doing real work or, infinitely worse, interrupting their break time with your inane questions. It's not about honesty. It's about 'If I don't lie here I'm going to end up behind on my work load and/or lose my break because this idiot customer can't do basic things' and how most of them have had every last vestage of enthusiasm, happiness, and a soul crushed out of them slowly by uncaring customers and a company that considers them disposable. --- I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your *! - White Mage <cite>Unbridled9 posted [p:913708638] in Is it ok t... [t:77271002]...</cite> <quote><cite>JCvgluvr posted...</cite> <quote>While I expected all the lying at work options to be popular, I did NOT think the lying everywhere option would be the highest! Just can't trust people these days...tsk, tsk, tsk!</quote> It's not that simple. Like, if you're working as a cashier on a line and it's gotten really badly backed up and you get a customer insisting that X item is on sale despite no evidence at all that it is... Not only are you going to eventually need to tell them a lie to get them off your back (assuming calling management isn't an option which it isn't always) but you lose a little bit of your own free will. You might see it as you getting that extra ten cents off on that can of tuna. They might see it as the last little bit of patience, happiness, and fleeting tatter of their soul being ripped away by some cheapskate who couldn't grasp that they were buying salmon and not tuna. Eventually nothing is left and, when that happens, you just... stop caring. Every customer INSISTS that there's more in the back. No matter what is actually in the back. Sure, sometimes the product is in the back; but that's not going to be the case most of the time. So instead of wasting their time going to check for a product that isn't there, just tell them that it isn't there and get back to doing something that isn't dealing with a customer? Remember, to them you're not someone who is in a life or death scenario which will be decided if you have an extra bottle of apple juice in the back. You're an annoying brat who is demanding an obviously out-of-stock product who has an intelligence rivaled only by pineapples since you can't grasp the concept of 'we are out of stock' and is stopping them from doing real work or, infinitely worse, interrupting their break time with your inane questions. It's not about honesty. It's about 'If I don't lie here I'm going to end up behind on my work load and/or lose my break because this idiot customer can't do basic things' and how most of them have had every last vestage of enthusiasm, happiness, and a soul crushed out of them slowly by uncaring customers and a company that considers them disposable. --- I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your *! - White Mage</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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