{"id":47,"date":"2004-04-23T02:54:42","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T10:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=47"},"modified":"2013-08-11T22:33:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T05:33:35","slug":"stories-from-sony-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/04\/23\/stories-from-sony-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories from Sony (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/04\/22\/stories-from-sony-part-3\/\" class=\"unemphasized\">the theft problem<\/a>, Sony forced all of its contractors to take an ethics test.  We had a choice between taking an hour-long online test or spending two hours in an ethics training class. I chose the test.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out that the &#8220;online test&#8221; wasn&#8217;t online at all; it was a program that ran off of a CD.  One of my coworkers explained it to me:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How will the company know that I took the test?&#8221; I asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your boss will sign you off on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How will he know that I took the test?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ll tell him so.  If you want, you can save an hour by just saying that you took it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, being the ethical person that I am, I wasted an hour of company time taking the test anyway. The whole concept of an ethics test seems pretty stupid to me.   Wouldn&#8217;t unethical people just <em>cheat<\/em>?   Sony&#8217;s test was particularly dumb; the questions it asked were all black-and-white, it was always obvious what answers the company wanted, and the questions were mostly about legal issues, not ethical ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of the theft problem, Sony forced all of its contractors to take an ethics test. We had a choice between taking an hour-long online test or spending two hours in an ethics training class. I chose the test. It turned out that the &#8220;online test&#8221; wasn&#8217;t online at all; it was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}