Ethics Training Pisses Me Off

But not because I'm unethical (that's beside the point), because it's been proven not to work -- by top executives, no less! -- and yet they continue to ram it down our throats.

Celebration of our Ethics Training:
The (not-so-super-secret employer name goes here) Ethics and Our Business (formerly Recommitment to Ethics) is a mandatory 1 1/2-hour training event to refocus (refocus? Have we gotten out of focus? Were we focused on the wrong thing?) employees on making ethical decisions both for their own benefit and that of the company as a whole.

I'm sorry…the what-now? Celebration of our Ethics Training? First off, who's celebrating? Secondly, what have they to celebrate? Executive philandering? Corporate cronyism? Over 8,000 reports to the ethics office last year? Besides, since when do "Celebration" and MANDATORY go together? This is Orwellian on a level the Bush administration can appreciate. Yeah…ethics training works. It works to grate on my last raw nerves.