Reply to: Won't someone think of the poor agents?

[threaded]

As many of these people don't seem to have principles I don't see how they can fail to conform to them. Amoral might be a better word.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

[doodab]

Wrong. It is an accepted "practice". Something entirely different.

HTH

As many of these people don't seem to have principles I don't see how they can fail to conform to them. Amoral might be a better word.

[shaunbhoy]

Yeah, like all these ex-ministers get them nice cushy directorships and non-execs on merit, and high paying world speaking tours because people want to hear what they think, especially as it doesn't matter anyway as they're not in government any more.

If you care to look in a dictionary what immoral actually means, then you will find an immoral act generally described as being against accepted principles.

As this is an accepted principle it is therefore not immoral.

HTH

Wrong. It is an accepted "practice". Something entirely different.

HTH

[threaded]

Perhaps they have redefined the meaning in the Dictionary then? You been in that time machine again?
That's cheating!!!

Yeah, like all these ex-ministers get them nice cushy directorships and non-execs on merit, and high paying world speaking tours because people want to hear what they think, especially as it doesn't matter anyway as they're not in government any more.

If you care to look in a dictionary what immoral actually means, then you will find an immoral act generally described as being against accepted principles.

As this is an accepted principle it is therefore not immoral.

HTH

[shaunbhoy]

What is immoral about it? It is just business.

You have a company, tell politico they can have a nice juicy directorship in it when they leave office, show them you have the money to pay to keep them in the life they wish to become accustomed too.

Jobs a gud'un.

Perhaps they have redefined the meaning in the Dictionary then? You been in that time machine again?
That's cheating!!!

[threaded]

Ahh....got you. Much more pragmatic, if a sight more immoral.

What is immoral about it? It is just business.

You have a company, tell politico they can have a nice juicy directorship in it when they leave office, show them you have the money to pay to keep them in the life they wish to become accustomed too.

Jobs a gud'un.

[shaunbhoy]

No I meant club together to amass a big bribe.

Ahh....got you. Much more pragmatic, if a sight more immoral.

[d000hg]

You mean like some sort of Professional Contractors Group???

Can't see that ever amounting to much!!

No I meant club together to amass a big bribe.

[shaunbhoy]

we just need to persuade British industry that the thing to do is prefer one group of people with no idea what they are doing over the other.

Shouldn't be too hard. The last Government allowed British Industry to be persuaded that they should prefer one (cheap) group of people with no idea, to another group of people that actually DID know what they were doing.

[shaunbhoy]

Maybe we could club together?

You mean like some sort of Professional Contractors Group???

Can't see that ever amounting to much!!

[d000hg]

Ah well there you go then, we just need to persuade British industry that the thing to do is prefer one group of people with no idea what they are doing over the other.

I didn't say I had no idea. Though despite doing a degree in Maths/Physics/CompSci, very little of my work has ever directly used university education.

[doodab]

Pretty much. My first job out of university was as a physics programmer. No training of any sort.

Ah well there you go then, we just need to persuade British industry that the thing to do is prefer one group of people with no idea what they are doing over the other.

[d000hg]

But you didn't get there by walking into a job that needed advanced technical skills you didn't have did you?

Pretty much. My first job out of university was as a physics programmer. No training of any sort.

[SupremeSpod]

But you didn't get there by walking into a job that needed advanced technical skills you didn't have did you?

Nope, never blagged a contract in my life...

[doodab]

And yet we all started without skills and are now models of skilled professionals.

But you didn't get there by walking into a job that needed advanced technical skills you didn't have did you?