| I work in a factory, and we have supervisors | | | | seek other employment, or you can try to fix |
| who play favorites. They have about six girls who | | | | the problem. Fixing the problem is the solution |
| can do no wrong, and they have easier jobs than | | | | least likely to occur. In all probability, your |
| the rest of us. These girls go out after work to | | | | workplace is a boat the owner does not want |
| bars, and that is why they are in with the | | | | rocked.Wayne & TamaraThe Quality Of MercyI |
| supervisors.The boss over these supervisors will | | | | am Ali from Pakistan, and I need your help on a |
| not do anything because his boss is the father of | | | | weird issue. First, let me tell you something about |
| one of these supervisors. So long as "Daddy | | | | me. I am a student of information technology. I |
| boss" is still there, this boss will not do anything to | | | | am not from a rich family, but our family is a |
| the supervisors. One girl played around and made | | | | respected one. When I turned 20, I left my family |
| the machinery malfunction for an operator, but | | | | for studies in computer science. Okay, now here |
| she didn't get into trouble because of the | | | | started the problem.I used to use the Internet as |
| favoritism.Do we go to the owner of the | | | | a resource for knowledge, but two years ago I |
| company with a complaint on why these bosses | | | | got free time and started chatting online. I am not |
| will not fix this mess?CarolCarol, we will not tell | | | | very good talking to girls, at least maybe not to |
| you that you should go to the owner. What we | | | | the sharp ones. I do not know the exact reason, |
| will tell you is how this usually plays out.Some | | | | but one can be that I am a little shy and can't talk |
| things are worth doing because you feel they are | | | | the talk.I met a girl online, and we shared a lot. At |
| the right thing to do, even when you know they | | | | least, I did. But I lied to her. Out of nowhere, |
| will not succeed. As a rule, whistleblowers do not | | | | though, I was in love with her. I told her some |
| succeed. Complaining or whistleblowing makes you | | | | mushy lines because it was hurting to think of her |
| the problem, instead of the problem you are | | | | not in my life. Then I told her I lied to her. It was |
| calling attention to.Human beings are social animals, | | | | a difficult time because she was so angry, but I |
| and family and social connections in the workplace | | | | finally managed to get her mercy. Is she really |
| usually count for more than merit or truth. Truth | | | | okay with me? How do we go back to our old |
| is very weak. There is nothing pushing it. It can't | | | | chat sessions we both used to enjoy?AliAli, Mark |
| stand up to people pushing their own agenda.The | | | | Twain said, "If you tell the truth, you don't have |
| one place where truth, fact, and objectivity are | | | | anything to remember." You also don't have |
| supposed to rule is science, but even in science it | | | | anything to apologize for or explain away. You |
| is a problem. The physicist Max Planck once | | | | may have gained her mercy, but what is the |
| observed that an important scientific innovation is | | | | quality of her mercy?How do you go back to the |
| usually accepted not because people readily | | | | old familiarity and trust, when that was |
| accept its truth, but because the older generation | | | | interwoven with lies? You wonder how you would |
| of opponents grows old and dies off.Carol, you | | | | feel if she lied to you. Probably, you would still |
| have three options: you can overlook the | | | | doubt her. |
| unfairness and become immune to it, you can | | | | |