Apologize and be forgiven – online
December 21, 2009Jon Brooks 1 Comment »Tough economic times can engender moral and ethical quandaries (for a cinematic illustration, see The Bicycle Thief.) If the recession has caused you to somehow stray from the scrupulous high ground, not to worry. Now, be forgiven online at the Apology Center, “where you can share the many, many, many things you’ve done wrong in your life – anonymously – and ask the Internet community if you can finally be forgiven….or not.”
Some examples:
Event – Ever since my son was born, pretty much every money gift that he’s gotten for birthdays and holidays, I’ve spent paying household bills or trips to Target (buying stuff for the family) instead of buying him toys as the gift was intented. But in my defense, he is an only child and has tons of toys that he barely plays with. Plus he never asked about the money, even as he got older.
Apology – I am sorry to all the people who thought they were buying him toys over the years. Like I said, the money did go for family expenses, but I still feel badly about it. Now, he has his own bank account, and the money will go there.
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Event – I used to steal money out of the mall fountain to buy Dairy Queen Blizzards. Sadly, it wasn’t that long ago and I’m not that young.Apology – They’re so damn good! Still, I’m thinking I stole people’s wishes and that can’t be good for karma. I’ll start throwing money back in.
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Event – I was a waiter at a pretty nice restaurant. When I worked the night shift, sometimes I’d take some steaks out of the freezer and put them outside with the trash. Then when my shift was over I’d drive around and pick them up. Score!Apology – Stealing is wrong. I learned that when I was like 6. It’s no better at 26. Sorry to the manager who had to count those steaks up and figure out why he was short.
But The Business Ethics blog is not impressed.
Sounds about right. I can say I’m sorry for posting this instead of looking for something better, for instance, but that doesn’t get you the three minutes back it took to read it.
December 24th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Thanks for the reference back to my blog. You’ve more than made my three minutes worthwhile!