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In an observation piece at Scientific American, Ralph Nader (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader) writes about the decades of struggles by conscientious engineers—whether employees or consultants—who strive to balance professional ethics with occupational survival.
Nader writes:
[...] today's engineers are working in an improved environment for taking their conscience to work. Yet much more remains to be done to safeguard the ability of engineers to speak truth to the powers-that-be.
For starters, the word whistle-blower—once popularly meant to describe a snitch or a disgruntled employee—now describes an ethical person willing to put his or her job on the line in order to expose corrupt, illegal, fraudulent and harmful activities. Indeed, in the aftermath of recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes, the media routinely and positively refers to disclosures by "Boeing whistle-blowers." Congressional investigating committees and federal agencies have called for whistle-blowers to come forward and shed light on corporate misdeeds and governmental agency lapses.
To put it mildly, this was not always the case.
LINK: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/when-engineers-become-whistleblowers/
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday May 15 2019, @02:43PM (1 child)
Still living in a dream world.
How many whistle blowers are unemployable, today? It's alright, if you got halfway or more to being wealthy, before you blew your whistle. Then you might invest your savings into your own business. But, no one hires a whistle blower, do they?
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Thursday May 16 2019, @08:28AM
Interesting, this is a viewpoint I don't recall seeing in any whistle-blower article ever.
They just tend to never be heard from again....I wonder if even McDonald's would hire them..?
It would be interesting to see a study on this.
Fate of the whistle-blowers.....perhaps a Netflix movie in there somewhere, or a sad country song.
Peace out man!
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