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  Anonymous Coward, 28 Apr 2000 @ 1:21pm

  
  

  This is ethical?

  This behavior held up as ethical in this article makes me sick. A hiring manager wants to rescind an offer of employment because his favorite candidate just became available and his "ethical" behavior is to put the hiree on the spot and ask "what would you do?"
  
  In the story, we're told that the hiree said "follow through with your offer to me." That's reasonable, but here's what I would have said (or at least like to say) in that situation: "You haven't given me a firm committment to employ me yet you're already asking me for advice on a specific business-related situation. I don't feel that I owe you anything until a professional working relationship exists between us." I would then leave it up to him whether to follow through with the offer, but regardless of what he decided, I would have gone on to look for a new position without a putz for a manager.

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    Mike (profile), 28 Apr 2000 @ 1:44pm

    
    

    Re: This is ethical?

    Yeah, I have to admit that I was somewhat surprised by the way the situation was handled in the article. My own reaction was why not just hire both of them. In this day and age when people are desperate for good technologists, I'd try to keep them both. I'm sure there are ways that they could work together. I also agree, that it wasn't necessarily ethical. It was more of a cop out. At least they're trying, though. No one ever said that everyone was going to agree on ethical behavior.

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  Ed, 28 Apr 2000 @ 2:41pm

  
  

  Steve Case and ethics

  Steve Case wishing for ethical companies reminds me of Dogbert.
  
  Dogbert once said he wished everyone in the world would give up their weapons and become pacifists. That way, he could conquer the whole world with a butter knife.
  

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