Corporate America == lack of morality
I’m going to rant because I’m pissed off. I’m going to talk a little bit about how large companies and corporations hide behind their contacts to avoid having any moral obligations. What pisses me off is that when a company does something that’s morally wrong, or just not nice, no one individual or group at the company takes responsibility. They just say, “well it’s in the contact,” or “it’s the company’s policy.” Even if it is in the policy / contracts, that doesn’t make it morally ok. Apparently companies of all sort thinks it’s ok screw people and do wrong things because they have contracts and policies to hide behind that can make them feel better to do the wrong thing. Of course it’s easy to say: “Well it’s not me that’s doing the wrong thing, it’s the company, or it’s the company’s policy.”
When an honest person makes an honest mistake, the corporation implies penalties with no remorse. If a person forgets to pay rent, they’re immediately evicted, charged for every day they’re late, etc. etc. All because a person forgot, a natural human tendency, not because the person didn’t have the money. If that person was dealing with an individual human though, the story would be different. People would not be pissed off, the landlord would understand (unless they’re as crooked as a corporate policy), because perhaps they also forget things in their life. The landlord would get their money and both parties would feel like they morally did the right thing. (reminding leasee to pay, paying to stay there). When a person deals with a corporation though, the human gets screwed because no moral boundaries exist on the corporation’s behalf because the corporation is like talking to a brick wall, there’s no emotion, and it can’t be judged. When that person confronts someone at the company about it, they just point the person to their policy and contracts as an excuse to screw the client and pawn their moral obligation off on someone else. That someone else being something that can’t have any notion of morality.
It’s like shooting and killing a robber and then saying “It’s ok, he was a bad guy anyway.” That person is just hiding behind a wall that doesn’t really exist to make themselves feel better for doing the wrong thing. When you have two people, there’s give and take. When you have 1 person and 1 company, there’s no give and take. If the customer gets screwed, the company loses their client, which usually doesn’t matter for the company because they are a company, and thus, probably have lots of clients/customers.
I think I’m going to start seeking out mom and pop shops from now on. This has pissed me off way too much.