Re: "Gamble my career"?

David:

On Thu, 08 November 2001, David.X.Kahn@gsk.com wrote:

>
> Reeve wrote:
>
> > So, if you install this chimera and something bad happens to your
> > system, do you think your boss, or the owner, or the board of
> > directors will applaud and say, "Hey, nice try!"  Sorry, the line
> > for the lynching party forms at the end.  If one of my valued,
> > long-time people even downloaded TT without talking to me, it would
> > be the end of that career.
>
> Look at it another way. If your company is about to pay a chunk of green
> screen tax do you not have an obligation to your bosses at least to make
> them aware of the existence of a possible alternative? Your memo will of
> course point out both the ethical issues and the business risk and may well
> recommend that you do not purchase it, but how are your managers meant to
> make a decision without a full awareness of the alternatives?

I see this as a troublesome path. It can be seen similar to pointing out that 
new fleet vehicles can be purchased more cheaply from local chop-shops. Or that 
expenses can be inflated by questionable accounting practices, etc. (Yes, I 
know I'm stretching the point.) That is, if it can be viewed as an 
ethical/moral/legal issue, there's no reason to advance it as an alternative. I 
certainly wouldn't want such a memo on file with MY signature on it.

OTOH, if management has proposed the alternative, then a memo is in order ASAP.

Tom Liotta

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Tom Liotta
The PowerTech Group, Inc.
19426 68th Avenue South
Kent, WA 98032
Phone  253-872-7788
Fax  253-872-7904
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