But, what was all that about? Seems to me to not that different than the typical ethics scenario skits that we go through at work for ethics training, only this one is 6 times LONGER. Someone seems to have been overly enamored with their screenplay and doesn't know how to edit for brevity.
I watched it. The size is irrelevant since my software streamed it. The girls may be hot, but they were fully dressed. We need some ethics videos of swimming beach lifeguards.
I don't think I learned anything. I already knew that wheeling and dealing can involve all sorts of conflicts of interest.
In my experience, those without ethics cannot be taught and those with real ethics (rather than professional association cartel forming type ethics?) do not need to be taught.
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Pat
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The reason the OP posted here is that Henry, when a friend asked to descrtibe their mental condition, answered in a hesitating fashion with "Eeee...Thick".
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Texas, New Mexico, and perhaps some other states require a certain number of HOURS of continuing education in ethics for PE's. So condensing it down to the meaningful content is not necesarily in anyone's best interest.
rcookepe- I would guess that the video was done for some sort of course or class, in which case, discussion and analysis of the story would involve more time than watching the video. I've done their 5-hour course, I think it was.
I watched the first couple of minutes of it. Looks like basically that Henry and his two daughters are all involved in engineering and wind up with conflicts of interest, with related people working for opposing parties, etc.
It is a completely benign, but overly melodramatic, piece of film that you might expect to see a workplace ethics class. The gist of the story is that the father is influencing a public procurement, the elder daughter works in the agency doing the procurement as an evaluator, and the younger daughter works for one of the two competitors.
EVERYONE of them commits at least one ethical infraction, but the father, to his credit appears to be ready to take the fall and protect his daughters.
