Practical ethical issues in testing
Your boss drops by your office, bragging. “I was just in a meeting with Linda; she was bugging me about the technical requirements and the answers she needed to move forward on the project. She said she told me she needed them a week ago. I said, ‘I don’t know what you are talking about.’ She looked so foolish. She said she had emailed me today, as well as several times this week. I told her she was wrong. It was so embarrassing for her.” He sits down, logs in, and checks emails. “Yup. There it is, four requests over the past week. DELETE. Forget about it, Linda. You’re not getting that information from me.”
This actually happened to Matt, almost word for word. Within six months, Matt transferred bosses. Within eighteen, he had left the company.
What is going on here?
The problem here is multi-layered. On one level, it was transparent that one department was attempting to make another...