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Ethics are the 'unspoken rules' of society. They are what govern how people behave when not bound by law. Questions with this tag should deal with how to handle situations where it is unclear how acceptable a given course of action might be within society (either the society of the workplace, or the world at large).
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How to deal with random people taking away our food from semi-shared common rooms?
If you keep food in a common room without making it clear who it is meant for, people will assume that anyone can have it.
You don't need to know everyone in the office who is not supposed to eat the …
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Should I be allowed to credit myself as author in code I wrote
You have been clearly told to remove the comments, so whether we think it should be "allowed" is immaterial. If you have concerns about your name being removed from the comments, you should raise them …
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Responsibility when processing results of ethically questionable survey
What is my responsibility?
Your responsibility is to do your job as instructed by your boss.
Is this ethical?
Yes. Your employer wants to move the results of their survey to a database, …
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How to return a fake watch "gifted" by a client
What exactly are you trying to achieve here? You weren't expecting the gift, you were even hoping that it was a "low end" one. It is not like they gave you the watch in lieu of your salary. I am findi …
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How to Say "No" to my manager if he asks me to take his exams for him
Don't impersonate your manager, even if he asks you.
But he has also asked me to use his credentials to take a mandated exam, so that it appears that he was the one taking the exam.
Your company …
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Any way to explain prosopagnosia & social anxiety to colleagues?
What do you think would make you understand people like me and not assume I hold any contempt towards you just because I do not say "hi" or look at you and smile whenever we meet?
I wouldn't care …
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Is it unethical to quit a job soon after receiving my annual bonus?
... hand in my notice after receiving the bonus. However, this feels very unethical because it amounts to grabbing the bonus and running away, so to speak.
Nothing unethical here. You get the bo …
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Laptop turned in to IT support has a document with staff member's name. Is it ethical for th...
As an IT support person, you are only authorized to do what is needed to resolve the users' IT issues. In this case, the user wants his disk replaced without losing his data. Hence, you only need to m …
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Possible circumventing recruiter in the hiring process?
TLDR: No wrongdoing, just get on with the job unless someone calls you out (which is extremely implausible).
There is no wrongdoing on the job applicant's part. Sending a job application to a recru …