Ethics development differences between work and professional settings

<Tab/><Tab/><Tab/> Ethics in my own opinion are our individual perceptions of allowable and or acceptable behavior. With that said, I would also venture to say that most people have a dual set of standard ethical practices one for professional settings the other for personal settings. As is typically the case what most people deem acceptable at work would not dream of …

…a retired DOT enforcement officer and friend, he summed his law enforcement activities this way, "each day we had a quota to make, we knew where the overweight trucks were and we knew whom to watch. So every day we'd go out to justify our existence." He went on to add, "we looked at it this way, everyone gets a 'turn' you may get off today, but the next time you will get you turn."