Technology was pretty valuable for our group experience. We used the blackboard email feature for all of our email communication. In fact, all of our communication was by email. The only phone communication was done when we had group meetings and we would call someone who was late to see if they were coming in. All of our record keeping was done in Word.
As far as hindering us, my laptop has basically been dying on me for the last year or so. Landon has a much better laptop than I do so mostly all of the PowerPoints and Word documents were done on his computer. I finally got a new computer recently, but it's an iMac and not a laptop, because I'm so sick of laptops and how easily they can get damaged, overheated, etc.
domingo, 19 de abril de 2009
domingo, 5 de abril de 2009
Ethical Lapses
I think the day we went over these examples was the day I had my interview. So I will just talk a little bit about the dehumanizing language subject then talk about my ethical standards.
The topic we are talking about is immigration and how people use dehumanizing language and refer to them in terms of statistics ("illegals"). Whatever your opinion of immigration is, you have to realize that all people have a story behind them. One of the most unique experiences of my life was working at a Ruby Tuesday in Greenville a couple of summers ago with a guy about my age from Guatemala. He didn't speak a word of English and as one of the few people there who spoke any Spanish I was one of the only persons who talked to him regularly. He told me about how he came to Greenville, which was a combination of hitching rides and walking (at times across the desert), and how this was only one of his jobs, as he worked for both Ruby Tuesday and McDonalds full time, which added up to nearly 80 hours a week. He had no car, and was only able to get to work by carpooling with his roomates and friends. Also, most of the money he was making was being sent back home to his mother in Guatemala to help feed his family. He may not be in the country legally but every person has a story behind them that makes you understand that if you were in their position, you may be doing the same thing.
In my career I plan to have ethical standards for myself, but I think the question is where to draw the line. Everyone will encounter this question at some point in their careers. For example, sometimes when people make their resume or when they describe a project that they worked on they have to describe it and put it in context in a way that makes it sound more challenging or more impressive than it actually was. But, you're not going to impress anyone by saying that you were a valet for a restaurant, but it might sound better if you refer to yourself as an "automotive relocation technician." (Ironic ethics note: I got that lame joke from my uncle.) On one hand, you're telling the facts and not making anything up, but on the other, you're manipulating the language and sugar coating it because you're not sure if your resume is competitive enough in a crowded field. I think that the right way to go about this is that if there is any question at all that what you're doing is ethical, then you probably shouldn't do it.
The topic we are talking about is immigration and how people use dehumanizing language and refer to them in terms of statistics ("illegals"). Whatever your opinion of immigration is, you have to realize that all people have a story behind them. One of the most unique experiences of my life was working at a Ruby Tuesday in Greenville a couple of summers ago with a guy about my age from Guatemala. He didn't speak a word of English and as one of the few people there who spoke any Spanish I was one of the only persons who talked to him regularly. He told me about how he came to Greenville, which was a combination of hitching rides and walking (at times across the desert), and how this was only one of his jobs, as he worked for both Ruby Tuesday and McDonalds full time, which added up to nearly 80 hours a week. He had no car, and was only able to get to work by carpooling with his roomates and friends. Also, most of the money he was making was being sent back home to his mother in Guatemala to help feed his family. He may not be in the country legally but every person has a story behind them that makes you understand that if you were in their position, you may be doing the same thing.
In my career I plan to have ethical standards for myself, but I think the question is where to draw the line. Everyone will encounter this question at some point in their careers. For example, sometimes when people make their resume or when they describe a project that they worked on they have to describe it and put it in context in a way that makes it sound more challenging or more impressive than it actually was. But, you're not going to impress anyone by saying that you were a valet for a restaurant, but it might sound better if you refer to yourself as an "automotive relocation technician." (Ironic ethics note: I got that lame joke from my uncle.) On one hand, you're telling the facts and not making anything up, but on the other, you're manipulating the language and sugar coating it because you're not sure if your resume is competitive enough in a crowded field. I think that the right way to go about this is that if there is any question at all that what you're doing is ethical, then you probably shouldn't do it.
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