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A Regular Festival of Conviviality: Two Views of Private Contractors

By Kat on June 27, 2008 | | Comments (3)
I won't say anything about what I think about this project, but Blackfive has two videos up that are proposed ethics educational pieces from Joint Command for private contractors.  They were particularly interested in what BillT thought about them, though I'm not sure he can see them where he's at.

Check it out.

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By BillT on June 27, 2008 10:10 AM
The first video addressed the issue of situational ethics in greater detail and provided more concrete guidelines in those grey areas requiring the avoidance of even a hint of impropriety. However, I disagree with Grim's personal preference of the first over the second, because the alternate video was considerably more nuanced -- allowing the contractor the unique advantage of viewing himself dispassionately, almost as a Transcendental Observer.

Plus I *really* liked the soundtrack.

Geez, you don't even wanna see the ethics courses I had to pass in order to get a job in a place where I wouldn't be involved in any of the situations they used as examples...
 
By Grim on June 27, 2008 5:51 PM
You had ethics courses?  We had a 15 minute lecture from the JAG, at the end of which the Captain said, "But forget all that -- if anybody gives you trouble, do what you have to to get back alive and we'll sort it out later."
 
By BillT on June 28, 2008 6:44 AM
"But forget all that -- if anybody gives you trouble, do what you have to to get back alive and we'll sort it out later."

Yeah, but I already *knew* that part.

What I had trouble with was the concept of how you could go to jail because one of your underlings (a buyer) accepted an invitation to a working luncheon hosted by a conglomerate of different vendors and a major stockholder in one of the peripheral (vendor) companies happens to be the uncle of the third cousin of the brother-in-law of the daughter of the girl you took to the senior prom forty years ago and whose grandson (no, don't ask which "whose") now works in your mail room.