Don't Ask applies to the men and women who are enlisted or are officers in
the military. Not to the men and women who work for the military or for
contractors who work for the military. I don't agree with Don't Ask. And I
look forward to its end. Thankfully, my job deals with army.mil which is a
source for news aimed at the private sector. The kind of work we do centers
around supporting programs that help homebound troops. We provide social
platforms for soldiers, their families, and their friends. We memorialize
historical events. We do a lot of good. We don't collect information about
our visitors, sometimes even to the point of not being able to log
information to know when someone has given an article a rating (which is one
of the reasons we don't have ratings on army.mil)
We don't hide information that is legally required to be accessible, what
little of this information we are charged with making available. (most of
that is DOD level) Some of the places I have worked have intentionally made
locating FoIA information hard, normally in the name of national security. I
have yet to see even the suggestion of this at army.mil.
Perhaps I should have been clearer before.
----- Original Message -----
From: "live" <human.factor....@gmail.com>
To: "William Brall" <dam...@earthlink.net>
Cc: <disc...@ixda.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction flow as subterfuge.
Ethical except for, you know, this kind of one act play-
A Military Monday Morning Water Cooler:
Bill: Hello John. How was your weekend?
John: It was great. The wife and the kids and I went to the zoo, saw the
penguins. How was your weekend?
Bill: Good - me and the boyfriend took the dogs to the coast, then came
home and worked on the garden.
John continues working. Bill gets fired and loses his job, healthcare,
and pension.
On Jun 20, 2009, at 5:57 PM, William Brall wrote:
Stick to your guns. Be ethical. Be personally responsible. Advertise
that you do these things and give examples of where you have left
jobs due to ethics. Ethical people will hire you and the others will
not. Which is where you want to be anyway.
At least that is my opinion.
Then again. I work for army.mil and there are people who would argue
that this fact alone is unethical. Why? I am not sure. But I have
been jeered at over it before. I love my job, but if I were ever
asked to do something I felt was unethical or amoral. I would refuse
to do it. And if that means I lose my job, good riddance.
I don't see that happening. The army is surprisingly ethical, even
compared to other government related jobs I have held.
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