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Can you make Officespace look good bt comparison?

oddman — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:41:57 -0800

I need a movie with horribly unethical working environments. I'd like to screen a movie for my students which depicts a really unethtical workplace. Ideally the movie would feature things like sexual harrasment, conflicts of interest, disregard for privacy, nepotism, and the like. Something like the movie Office Space but with more, and different, kinds of unethical behavior.

I'm definitely not looking for movies focused on the unethical actions of businesses (like Enron) toward their communities or about unethical businesses in general. I want the unethical behavior to be focused on the workers. Which is to say I'm not interested in corporate ethics per se, but specifically in the unethical treatment of employees.

I've scanned this thread already.

Great papers in ethics?

oddman — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:03:48 -0800

I'm looking for paradigmatic ethics papers. Specifically, I'd like papers that are as clear and influential as Singer's "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" and Thomson's "A Defense of Abortion." The papers do not have to be on charity or abortion, in fact, it would be nice to have a paper on some other problem in ethics. Also, I would like the paper to eschew too much theory talk (as the Singer and Thompson papers).

Also, could you offer a brief description and a comment on why you like the paper?

"I sent it!" "I never got it." Emailing assignments?

starman — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:31:15 -0800

Teachers/instructors/professors: What is your policy for accepting assignments through email? I generally prefer assignments printed up so I can write comments more easily, but I like the idea of saving paper and giving students some flexibility for turning in their assignments if they have a legitimate need.

What I am really looking for is a guideline that will give students an option for email but dissuades them from using it to hand in papers late or skip class the day assignments are due.