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: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday May 15 2019, @09:52PM (1 child)
It's a simple formula [youtube.com], really.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @11:14PM
After watching the simple formula, YouTube offered me this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGru_4z1Vc [youtube.com]
which was a nice antidote to all the well-written gloom in this thread.
"...If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."