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Assignment: Share a time in your professional life where you observed an unethical situation. What were your thoughts and opinions on this ethical issue?
While working as an employee in an IT firm I had to deal with clients of different countries on behalf of company and I had to represent my company while dealing with them. In such a situation my every priority is to make sure that best possible deal is cracked for the company because I am representing company as a whole.
On a day, after having a constructive meet, I came across a mail on my mail id in which the official client of the company was asking me to deal with him on a personal level without informing company in this regard and the individual will pay me a higher amount and even promised me more work in future. He wanted that I should join him in his personal team, while keep on working in the same company and providing him with necessary secret data of the company. This was perhaps the most unethical situation in which I found myself in my professional life.
My thoughts were very clear and concise, I was a fresh employee of the company and just started my career, I did not wanted to be marked as unprofessional or unethical in my working in the very beginning of my career, and neither I supported his thoughts and viewpoints of doing business. Therefore, I clearly denied the individual for the offer that he gave to me and informed company and my senior officials in this regard, which resulted in black listing of the individual as a client of the firm and the manager appraised me for my honesty and professionalism towards the particular incident.