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Sticky fingers to save time do not get grandfather off the hook

Bert enjoys taking his grandkids fishing whenever the weather is good, the grandkids are visiting, and the fish are biting. He enjoys walking with them down to a bridge by the pond not far from his house, and then teaching them to bait the hook, cast their lines into the water, and patiently wait for something to nibble on the line.
He's been following this routine with his grandkids since they were toddlers. Now that they are 11 and 13, he believes they continue to enjoy the outings.
They also catch and release, unhooking the catch and tossing it back into the water. They rarely leave until each kid has reeled in at least one fish. To remove the fish from the hook, Bert carries a few latex gloves in his tackle box so the grandkids aren't stung by a sharp fin or inadvertently stabbed by the hook.
Typically, Bert buys a small package of latex gloves at his local hardware store for a few bucks. He sticks them in a drawer in his garage and puts a few in the tackle box before heading out to fish.
The day before another fishing outing was scheduled with his grandkids, Bert had a doctor's appointment. A box of purple latex gloves in the examination room caught Bert's eye. He couldn't remember if he had stocked up on gloves for the following day's trip.
"I figured I'd take a couple of gloves when the doctor wasn't around to make sure I had them for the kids," Bert writes, calculating that doing so would save him the trip to the hardware store.
But the next morning, he realized that he may have made a mistake. The gloves he regularly used with the grandkids were white. What would he tell them if they asked why they were using purple gloves, he wondered. Even though he now had the purple gloves, he decided he would still make a trip to the store to purchase the gloves he regularly used.
Once Bert took the purple gloves, it was unlikely his doctor would let him return them to the examination room. Fearing the possibility of either having to tell his grandkids he stole the gloves or lying to them about where they came from should not have been the reason not to take the gloves. The right thing would have been to buy his own latex gloves as he always did.
Asking his doctor if he could have a couple of gloves might have been more honest, but it's hardly fair to ask the doctor to add to medical costs by letting patients take a few medical supplies, no matter how inconsequential they might seem. Offering to pay for the gloves he took on his next visit would be honest, but it's unlikely his doctor would be in a position to process the payment for items typically not sold at his practice.
Perhaps the best lesson for Bert is that when faced with such temptations in the future, he should fight the urge to save time by engaging in a little dishonesty, even if no one but him will ever know about the theft. 
Jeffrey L. Seglin, author of The Simple Art of Business Etiquette: How to Rise to the Top by Playing Nice, is a senior lecturer in public policy and director of the communications program at Harvard's Kennedy School. He is also the administrator of www.jeffreyseglin.com, a blog focused on ethical issues. 
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Can I ask company tech guy for help on a personal issue?

At the end of every year, Annie reviews the hundreds of digital photos she's taken throughout the year, selects a handful that capture key moments in her life that year, and then uploads the photos into an online photo book program. Once she's pleased that her book's pages represent the fullness of her year, she ships the pages off and has a copy of a photo book made. She's been doing this for the past five or six years without a problem.
This year, however, she seems to have hit a snag. Several of the photos she's uploaded to the online photo book pages feature a box with a red exclamation point in them. It doesn't seem to be a resolution issue, she writes, since those problems are typically identified with a yellow exclamation point.
Try as she might, Annie writes that she hasn't been able to figure out what is causing the red exclamation points to appear. But she suspects that if she sends off the book to be printed, it's likely that it will come back with errors throughout.
"I know something is going haywire with the uploads or downloads of the pictures from my phone and camera," she writes. "But I can't for the life of me figure it out."
Annie has a good relationship with the information technology (IT) department at her workplace. The folks in IT regularly resolve issues for her when they arise on her office computer.
"Would it be wrong for me to ask one of the IT guys to take a look at my laptop to see if they can figure out what's wrong with my photo book?" she asks.
It's a fair question. Annie knows the IT guys likely have significantly more experience than she does working through tech challenges. One of them might know right off what the issue is.
But if Annie's photo book project is a personal one and has no relation to her job or the work she does there, she shouldn't expect the IT people to try to resolve non-work-related tech issues for her. It would be perfectly fine for her to ask the IT people to help her set up her phone or tablet so she can receive workplace email on it or so she can connect to the office's Wi-Fi. But asking the IT guys to work on personal projects while they are on the job crosses a line.
If her workplace has a clearly stated policy that permits employees to seek help from IT on personal issues, then her request might be fine. But asking IT to fix her personal issue would be akin to asking the company's accountant to help her with her personal tax filing.
The right thing would be for Annie to seek help from more appropriate sources such as an online help line, a savvy friend, a "genius" bar employee, or a facile grandchild. If one of the IT people at work happens to fall into any of these categories, then Annie should feel free to ask away for help, so long as that request and the help takes place during their non-work hours. 
Jeffrey L. Seglin, author of The Simple Art of Business Etiquette: How to Rise to the Top by Playing Nice, is a senior lecturer in public policy and director of the communications program at Harvard's Kennedy School. He is also the administrator of www.jeffreyseglin.com, a blog focused on ethical issues. 
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Would you lie to help a former colleague?

How far would you go to help a former colleague who asks for your assistance in trying to advance her career?
After R.A. received an email from her former colleague, F.E., she was at a loss about how to respond. F.E. was, she wrote to R.A., in the process of trying to pull together documentation so she could receive professional licensing. One of the licensing requirements was for F.E. to have received regular supervision from someone who already held the license F.E. sought.
Because R.A. already held the same license, F.E. emailed her to ask her to sign off on documentation that said she had been F.E.'s supervisor for the several years they worked together before F.E. had left to take a job elsewhere. The problem, R.A. writes, is that she was never F.E.'s supervisor. They did work together on a project, but as colleagues, not as supervisor and supervisee.
R.A., is not inclined to indicate that she performed a role that she never held in relation to F.E. Partly, she does not believe it's right to misrepresent work that she never did. She also has no desire to run afoul of the licensing agency that issued R.A.'s own credentials.
"I don't want to tell F.E. that I will not lie for her," writes R.A., but she's at a loss for how to tell F.E. why she is not willing to sign off on supervisory hours she never conducted. "Once I figure out how to tell her 'no,' am I obligated to alert the licensing agency that F.E. might be trying to lie to get her license?"
R.A. is doing the right thing by refusing to sign off on something that never happened. She could simply be direct and tell F.E. that she believes it would be dishonest to misrepresent their roles as former colleagues. But if she doesn't want to come right out and suggest F.E. is a liar, she can simply decline F.E.'s request, remind her that she wasn't her supervisor when they worked together, and leave it at that. By reminding F.E. she wasn't her supervisor, F.E. might still take that as R.A. suggesting she was trying to lie, but ultimately F.E. should ask herself why her own action was wrong.
Even if R.A. and F.E. were friends outside of work, which they are not, refusing to misrepresent their professional relationship to a licensing board is the right thing to do. No former colleague or current friend should ask a friend to lie for them to get something they want that they haven't rightly earned. F.E. may be willing to try to commit fraud to get what she wants, but she shouldn't expect that R.A. or anyone else should want to do the same.
If R.A. learns that F.E. lied on the documents she provided to the licensing board and she has evidence to prove it, then the right thing would be to alert the licensing board. But right now all that R.A. knows is that F.E. asked her to do something R.A. believes to be wrong. The right thing to do right now is to simply tell F.E. she will not do it. 
Jeffrey L. Seglin, author of The Simple Art of Business Etiquette: How to Rise to the Top by Playing Nice, is a senior lecturer in public policy and director of the communications program at Harvard's Kennedy School. He is also the administrator of www.jeffreyseglin.com, a blog focused on ethical issues. 
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Should 'friends' caution 'friends' about social media posts?

A couple of years ago, Arnie was friended on Facebook by Libby, a colleague at work. They knew one another at work and shared a boss, but had never worked on the same project, and never socialized outside of work. Still, Arnie had accepted Libby's friend invitation and regularly perused her posts about her family when they showed up on his Facebook feed.
Some of Arnie's Facebook friends were acquaintances like Libby. Others were actual friends or family members. Arnie was cautious not to overshare on social media, partly because he wasn't much of an oversharer, but also because he didn't want anything to come back to haunt him in the future.
On his setup page, Arnie had chosen to only allow other friends to see whatever it was he posted rather than to make his page and postings open to the entire Facebook world and the public. He noticed that Libby had also chosen only to allow her friends to see the links she posted.
Recently, as Arnie was scrolling through his Facebook feed on his train-ride home, he took note of a posting by Libby in which she excoriated their mutual boss, suggested the boss was tyrannical, hyper-critica, and unfair. Libby never named the boss, but since she and Arnie shared the same boss, he knew who she was referring in her post.
While he figured it was unlikely, Arnie clicked on Libby's friends list to see if their mutual boss was among her Facebook friends. The boss wasn't. But Arnie did notice that there were a few other colleagues among her many Facebook friends.
Since Libby had set her postings so only her friends could read them, it was unlikely that their boss would see her post, unless someone copied it and forwarded it along. Arnie was not inclined to do this, but since Libby listed her place of work on her page and some of her Facebook friends also worked with her, he knew it would be relatively simple for many people to know whom it was she was referring to in her post.
"I'm not inclined to report her post to the boss or to work," Arnie writes, particularly since Libby didn't suggest the boss had done anything illegal or inappropriate (unless, of course, you consider being an overbearing boss inappropriate). But he wonders if he should send a note or say something to Libby to remind her that her post might find its way back to the boss, even if she didn't want it to.
Arnie is not obligated to remind Libby that she might be opening herself into a whirlwind of trouble with her post. The right thing would be for Libby to make responsible choices about what she posts and to recognize that her words could go far beyond her intended audience. If Arnie wants to remind Libby of this, then it would be kind for him to do so. But the ultimate responsibility lies with Libby to make smart choices about her social media postings and to be willing to suffer whatever consequences ensue. 
Jeffrey L. Seglin, author of The Simple Art of Business Etiquette: How to Rise to the Top by Playing Nice, is a senior lecturer in public policy and director of the communications program at Harvard's Kennedy School. He is also the administrator of www.jeffreyseglin.com, a blog focused on ethical issues. 
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Can I use someone else's design for my remodel?

Larry and Dianne have wanted to remodel the master bathroom in their house for some time. Partly, they hoped to knock down a wall, install a larger shower, and expand the vanity so it could accommodate two sinks. But they also believed that the remodel would result in some mold issues they had discovered shortly after buying their house. So their desire was for comfort and cosmetic appeal, but also based on a healthier environment.
After meeting with several prospective contractors, they settled on one they liked. He had done some work for them earlier and, while they had some issues with how long it took him to follow through on finishing touches, they liked the quality of his work quite a bit. He drew up some design plans and presented Larry and Dianne with a cost estimate. All in all, they were pleased with the look and the price.
That was two years ago. Right after getting the plans, a storm uprooted several full-grown trees in Larry and Dianne's yard, which resulted in some unexpected costs for removal and then planting of new mature trees to replace the trees destroyed in the storm. Because of the cost, they put the master bathroom remodel on hold.
But now, they are ready to move forward. They dug out the plans and called the contractor to see if they could schedule the work. After waiting a few weeks for a response, they finally got a call from the contractor letting them know that he was solidly booked with large projects and would not be able to even consider their project for a year.
Larry and Dianne want to do the remodel now, however. So they plan to find a contractor who can take on the project. Nevertheless, they loved the design plans that the prospective contractor had given them and hope to use them on the new project.
"He hadn't charged us for the plans or anything," writes Larry. "Would it be wrong to just hand the plans over to a new contractor and tell them that's what we want done?"
While Larry and Dianne might be able to find a contractor who would agree to follow the plans drawn by their original contractor, the drawings still represent the work done in good faith by him. It's one thing to ask a contractor to come up with plans after looking at a few other bathroom designs Larry and Dianne liked in magazine photos or even in friends' homes, quite another to take the work done by someone else and use it as his or her own.
Even if it's unlikely the old contractor would ever discover that it was his plans that were being used, Larry and Dianne would still know. The right thing to do is to simply ask the original contractor for permission to use his plans. It's unlikely he'll be using these plans for future work, so the chances are that he'd be agreeable. If not, then Larry and Dianne should start from scratch with a new contractor. They'd rest easier at night knowing they did so, and they even might be surprised and pleased with what a new contractor designed. 
Jeffrey L. Seglin, author of The Simple Art of Business Etiquette: How to Rise to the Top by Playing Nice, is a senior lecturer in public policy and director of the communications program at Harvard's Kennedy School. He is also the administrator of www.jeffreyseglin.com, a blog focused on ethical issues. 
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Should I call a colleague on her tardiness?

How patient should you be when the person who asked for a meeting with you is late?
L.L. works as a professional in a field that requires her to have specific degrees, continuing education, and other credentials to ensure that her license is up to date. Her employer periodically requires a review of her credentials and work product to make sure everything is up to date.
"I got an email a few weeks ago from the credentialing person asking me if I could set aside time for a meeting when we could go over her review of my files," L.L. writes. They agreed upon a time and L.L. made note of it on her calendar.
The credentialing person had access to all of L.L.'s files, so the plan was for her to review those files and come to the meeting with any questions she might have about them. At the meeting, she would either sign off on L.L.'s files being up to date, or she'd leave her with a list of tasks needed to ensure they were complete.
The meeting was to take place mid-morning in L.L.'s office, so she knew that as long as she did not schedule anything else for that time period, she would be on time for the meeting. She set aside one hour, knowing that she would have to move on to meet with clients and other colleagues once that meeting was complete.
Ten minutes after the meeting was to begin, there was no word from or sign of the credentialing person in L.L.'s office. Finally, after 20 minutes had passed, L.L. emailed her and asked if they had indeed been scheduled for when she thought they were scheduled.
A response came five minutes later. They had indeed been scheduled, but, the credentialing person wrote, she had become "very busy" and would be right over to meet with L.L., whose office was one floor up.
When the credentialing person arrived -- now, 30 minutes late -- she sat down and began to discuss L.L.'s files.
"No apology, no nothing to indicate that she had kept me waiting for so long," writes L.L. "Shouldn't she at least have apologized? Should I have said something about how unprofessional it was for her to not let me know she'd be late?" L.L. needed the person to sign off on her files and wasn't inclined to anger her by calling her on her tardiness. Now, she wonders if she should have if, for nothing else, than to try to raise her awareness so she might not do it again, or at least to let her know next time if she was going to be late.
The right thing would have been for the credentialing person to let L.L. know she was running late. She had no obligation to apologize, but it would have been courteous to do so. L.L. was not wrong to refrain from making more of an issue of her tardiness. But she would have been fine to say something. The person's obligation was to show up and do her job. L.L. held up her end of the bargain. The credentialing person should have done her best to hold up hers, or to let L.L. know beforehand if she wouldn't be able to. 
Jeffrey L. Seglin, author of The Simple Art of Business Etiquette: How to Rise to the Top by Playing Nice, is a senior lecturer in public policy and director of the communications program at Harvard's Kennedy School. He is also the administrator of www.jeffreyseglin.com, a blog focused on ethical issues. 
Do you have ethical questions that you need answered? Send them to rightthing@comcast.net. 
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Is employer responsible for expense if I might leave?

Every couple of years, Lil (not her real name, but let's call her "Lil") has to renew her professional license with her state so she can continue practicing as a psychotherapist. The agency at which Lil sees most of her clients generally reimburses Lil for the cost of the license as well as any continuing education courses she needs to take throughout those two years to keep up-to-date with her profession.
For several years now, Lil has contemplated retiring. She enjoys her work, she writes, but she believes it's time to pull back on the work hours and pursue some other interests she's long put off for lack of time. But for several years now, Lil has not followed through on her plans to retire. Now, at 70, she's decided that she'd really like to retire in six months, right before June, so she can look forward to the warm weather in her first days of retirement. At least, that's what Lil thinks she wants to do.
"I've been here before," she writes, "and each time, I've decided to keep on working and seeing clients."
But this time, it might be different.
Because Lil will still have a year-and-a-half left on the license she's now renewing if she does retire, she's wrestling with whether it's right to ask her agency to reimburse her for the cost of the license renewal.
"If I know before I renew the license that I'm likely to be leaving, wouldn't it be wrong to expect them to pay for it?" she asks.
While Lil might be overly conscientious about what she asks of her agency when it comes to supporting her in her profession, there are a few factors here that she might consider before offering to pay for the license renewal herself.
First, even if Lil does follow through with retirement plans this time around, she still will need a current license to see clients at the agency. The agency benefits by having her on staff to see clients, so if it's its practice to underwrite the cost of its practitioners' licenses, then there is no reason not to expect it to do so for any fraction of the time Lil will need one. The state does not seem to have any provision for license terms that are less than two years, so if this is what's needed, then that's what the agency should pay for.
Second, Lil simply may decide, once again, to put off retiring. She has not given notice to her agency, nor has she set her retirement plans firmly in place. If history is any guide, she's just as likely to continue working as she is to retire. Having a valid license in place makes sense.
The agency must regularly face situations where a practitioner leaves the practice for one reason or another. It has never asked one of its practitioners to reimburse it for the time left on the current license. There would be no reason to expect it to do so should Lil retire by June.
Lil should rest easy, renew her license, continue to do good work with clients, and, when the time is finally right, retire with peace of mind that she did the right thing. 
Jeffrey L. Seglin, author of The Simple Art of Business Etiquette: How to Rise to the Top by Playing Nice, is a senior lecturer in public policy and director of the communications program at Harvard's Kennedy School. He is also the administrator of www.jeffreyseglin.com, a blog focused on ethical issues. 
Do you have ethical questions that you need answered? Send them to rightthing@comcast.net. 
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Tell me your stories

It's the time of year when some people seem to feel a bit more charitable than at others. Below are just a couple of recent stories. I'm confident there are hundreds more stories that readers can share of their own experiences of being the recipient or doer of good acts with nothing expected in return.
In October, in Iowa, Lisa Brownlee was surprised when neighbors showed up to harvest her family's crop of corn and soybeans. According to Donnelle Eller, a reporter for The Des Moines Register, Brownlee's husband had died of a heart attack earlier in the year, leaving his "last crop" of "about 235 acres of corn and 165 acres of soybeans" to be harvested.
Word of the effort apparently spread and more help than expected came calling, many working to harvest Brownlee's crops before they finished harvesting their own.
"It's something Van Brownlee would have done for his neighbors, says Steve Downs, Brownlee's friend since junior high."
Neighbors stepped in to help a neighbor when she and her family needed it most.
The harvest is just one example of how some step up to do the right thing when the need arises.
Another happened in early in November, Kate McClure, of Bordentown, N.J., started a GoFundMe page to help raise money to thank a homeless man named Johnny who offered her his last $20 so she could buy enough gas to make it safely home. McClure knew that Johnny regularly sat on the side of the road with a sign every day, so she returned to repay him the $20 and also dropped off some gloves, warms socks, a jacket and some sums of cash when she sees him.
But McClure wanted to do more, so she took to GoFundMe to try to raise $10,000 from strangers to help get Johnny enough cash to secure an apartment with first and last months' rent and four to five months' worth of living expenses. By Thanksgiving, McClure has surpassed her goal and the GoFundMe site has yielded $323,900, in donations.
There are many stories of people doing good year round. Even when their own fields need harvesting, they do the right thing by helping a neighbor in need. Even when the homeless guy who lends his last twenty bucks to a young woman he might never see again, he gives her the money with nothing expected in return because he believes it's the right thing to do.
Now, it's time to tell me your story. What story from your life captures a moment when you stepped up to do the right thing for someone else, regardless of whether or not you received recognition for it? Or, when have you been the recipient of such an act?
Send me your stories. Provide as much detail as possible, but keep your submission to no more than 300 words. Include your name, location, email address, and telephone number, and submit your story by Dec. 25, 2017, to: rightthing@comcast.net. I'll run some of these stories in an upcoming column. 
Jeffrey L. Seglin, author of The Simple Art of Business Etiquette: How to Rise to the Top by Playing Nice, is a senior lecturer in public policy and director of the communications program at Harvard's Kennedy School. He is also the administrator of www.jeffreyseglin.com, a blog focused on ethical issues. 
Do you have ethical questions that you need answered? Send them to rightthing@comcast.net. 
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When bad toys happen to good organizations

It's never too early in the holiday season to start worrying.
On Nov. 14, World Against Toys Causing Harm, Inc.(W.A.T.C.H.) revealed the 10 nominees for its annual worst toy list when it comes to presenting a hazard for children. Including such items as a Wonder Woman sword, this might cause "blunt force injuries" or a fidget spinner, which might present choking injuries. The list is regularly announced in time to give holiday shoppers a heads up on how to avoid buying gifts for children that run the risk of bringing them as much pain as joy.
These are toys that, according to W.A.T.C.H. "should not be in the hands of children."
The Toy Association (toyassociation.org) told the Associated Press that W.A.T.C.H.'s list was "needlessly frightening" to parents "because all toys sold in the United States meet rigorous safety standards." The Toy Association also took issue with the fact that W.A.T.C.H. did not actually "test the toys it focuses on."
But W.A.T.C.H. stands behind its list.
B.C., a reader in Boston, where W.A.T.C.H. is headquartered, writes that she appreciates the efforts to identify potentially dangerous toys before the gift-giving season. She works for a social services agency, which stages an annual toy drive for children in need of holiday gifts. Knowing what toys might present a hazard is useful to her group, she says.
Still, B. C. finds herself in a quandary. "We solicit and accept toy donations for a couple of months leading up to the holiday," she writes. "We're grateful for the generosity of donors who help to make sure that the children we serve are not disappointed. But if we receive one of the 10 toys on W.A.T.C.H.'s list, what's the right thing to do?"
If B.C. and her group have found W.A.T.C.H.'s list to be a useful guide in the types of toys to avoid giving children, then it should certainly refer to it when it starts doling out the donated toys to children. But occasionally, her agency receives some donations before W.A.T.C.H.'s new list comes out. If the agency ends up receiving gifts on W.A.T.C.H.'s list, it should stick with its policy of using the list as a guide and refrain from distributing those gifts.
Even if the agency doesn't have the current list, the right thing would be for it to create a list of W.A.T.C.H.'s dangerous toys from past years and include those in the material it sends out requesting toy donations. It can also indicate that it will use the new list as a guide when it is issued.
What B.C.'s group might also do, if it doesn't already, is to list for potential toy donors the types of toys that generally present a hazard for children, whether that includes small parts that present a choking hazard or weapon-like toys that present a bludgeoning hazard.
If a toy or two on W.A.T.C.H.'s list does find its way to B.C.'s agency, it can simply be set aside. There's no reason to chide the donor for donating something that could choke or otherwise harm a child. If all it receives this year are Nerf Zombie Strike Deadbolt Crossbows, B.C. and colleagues might have to bring their toy drive back from the dead by digging a little deeper for donations. 
Jeffrey L. Seglin, author of The Simple Art of Business Etiquette: How to Rise to the Top by Playing Nice, is a senior lecturer in public policy and director of the communications program at Harvard's Kennedy School. He is also the administrator of www.jeffreyseglin.com, a blog focused on ethical issues. 
Do you have ethical questions that you need answered? Send them to rightthing@comcast.net. 
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Talking Politics Over Turkey

For those wrestling with how to have a civil discussion over a holiday meal, a discussion with HKS PolicyCast