I had received news from my junior. From the sound of it, he did not sound happy at all. In fact, he is dissatisfied; angry even. I reaffirmed this news with two more people. Both of them had also expressed disapprovals and disappointment over that matter. The third person I asked has no reaction to the news. What is actually happening, you might ask?
There is a promotion/reward at hand. Everybody has a fair chance of getting it. I am not participating in it, so it is natural that I am not aware of the result. There is one of them using dishonest means to get the reward, and she got it. However, the others were competing fair and square and got the reward. Everybody else were working hard for months and submitting quality reports and presentation. However, she did not even did her work properly and wrote fake reports. Always absent and did not join meeting often with her supervisor/boss. And now she is cleared for the promotion/reward due to her superior cheating abilities. I am not close with her but I have had received several stories about her.
This is a common situation which I am sure we are bound to face. Does the end result justify the means? Is this attitude "I don't care what method I use as long as I get the reward" healthy? Most people will approve if the efforts are honest and fair. But if the attitude results in dishonest and unethical methods, then this attitude has already lost its essence. Confucius surely did not teach us to use bad ways although he did advises us to try hard to achieve our goal!!
Nevertheless, when we really look around us, the really rich people in business are usually connected to use bribery, political clout, backstabbing and betrayals to succeed. In fact, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg were found guilty to steal two of his seniors' idea of opening a social network. Even worse, he stole his room mate's programming algorithm (coding etc) for friends finder. The US Court found him guilty and he settled out of court with the three person for few hundred millions USD. But he is already a Billionaire. Stealing and betraying here and there. Just, WOW!
At the end of the day, we only have ourselves to answer for what we have done. Life is unfair because of people like this.
But we are strong enough not to fall into that vicious temptation aren't we?
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