Is Setting Up an Offshore IT Help Desk Ethical? 826
theodp writes "Except for a few odd jobs,' wrote an advice seeker to The Ethicist (NYT, reg. may be required), 'I had been out of work for nine months when I was offered a job setting up an [IT] offshore help desk. Would it be ethical to accept the offer?' Randy Cohen, who pens The Ethicist column for the Times, not only advised the job seeker that it was indeed okay to help co-workers lose their jobs, but also seemed to suggest that it would be unethical for him not to offshore the jobs, saying: 'Some people feel we have a greater ethical duty to those closest to us — our neighbors — but in an era of global trade and travel, that is a recipe for tribalism and its attendant ills.' The job seeker, who noted his father's auto-industry job was outsourced, chose to ignore Cohen's ethics advice — as well as his own wife's — and declined the job out of principle. He continues to seek work. Comments?"
Hey! (Score:5, Funny)
I saw that movie. You'll get to nail a really beautiful Indian girl. Ethics smethics.
Re:A good book to read... (Score:4, Funny)
I love the parodies in that article.
Somebody needs to write I Started a Cheese Moving Company, Lobbied the Government with my Profits, and now it's Too Big to Fail.
Re:Any time you need to ask the question... (Score:4, Funny)
Isn't burning strawmen fun?
Since you feel the need to ask that question, the answer is no.
Re:Any time you need to ask the question... (Score:4, Funny)
It's fun, but it's not ethical. Someone spent time putting those strawmen up. Is it our place to go around burning other peoples flimsy strawmen?
Re:Any time you need to ask the question... (Score:2, Funny)
We demand that everyone's taxes go up because asshats like you complain about the "20-25k" taxes you pay a year while siphoning much more than that in benefits from services the government provides. Just to mention a few: local and national security, fire protection services, water infrastructure, public infrastructure of all kinds, etc.
I'm so sick of the greedy, selfish assholes the current generation of baby boomers has turned in to... Thank God they are on the way out and the younger generation is much more in tune with an enlightened society.