tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166579.post3167223247934692648..comments2024-02-19T08:12:53.815-05:00Comments on The Right Thing: THE RIGHT THING: IT TAKES A THIEF ... OR DOES IT?Jeffrey L. Seglinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15648051034425906705noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166579.post-60578196735286638862008-11-02T10:34:00.000-05:002008-11-02T10:34:00.000-05:00Hi JeffreyI'm not convinced that your reader did t...Hi Jeffrey<BR/><BR/>I'm not convinced that your reader did the ethical thing here. To start with, your reader is not the owner or manager of the condo complex but merely a contracted service provider. Your reader's duty is first to her employer and only secondarily to the condo residents. The identification and drug parapanelia should have been turned over to her employer to handle. The condo owner/manager is in a much better position to see the big picture and handle this situation appropriately than is a lawn care service whether that be contacting the residents, the police, or starting an eviction process. These finds are evidence of a crime and your reader's actions may well have provided the criminal with warning that they had been discovered and given them the chance to destroy evidence, flee, etc.<BR/><BR/>Your reader would have fulfilled her ethical duties once she has turned these finds over to her employer. She need not and should not inform the residents of these finds or warn the residents in any way. These are duties left to the manager/owner of the complex.<BR/><BR/>If your reader had been my contract employee and had taken these actions, she may very well have endangered her continued employment with me. How right are her actions going to feel when she has lost her job over her response?<BR/><BR/>William Jacobson<BR/>Cypress, CA<BR/>Orange County RegisterBill Jacobsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109292381489849674noreply@blogger.com