Workplace Ethical Dilemma's

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An ethical dilemma that I have seen in the workplace would have to involve theft. I work in a restaurant and theft is a frequent factor in the food service industry. When you think about theft in restaurants it can involve everything from product theft, giving away food to customers, to stealing tips. I have seen every one of these things happen in the restaurant I am currently working in. I have witnessed an employee get fired over a loaf of banana nut bread, while a manager was stealing cash from the register by voiding checks on a daily basis. Which would be the offense that is worth terminating a long term employee? I feel that the manager who is stealing cash from the business is actually committing a crime where the employee who gave a customer a loaf of bread was wrong but not necessarily an offense worth termination. Theft in the workplace can happen in any type of business and can involve employees at any level. Managers have been known to steal also, I had a General Manager steal food products just to set up another manager at one point. When I was a manager I witnessed my supervisor, who could not find any other way of terminating another assistant manager load product from the stores freezer into her car and take it to the employee’s house, drop it off in her driveway and call the police to report the theft. I have also seen employees take food from the restaurant simply to provide for their children. Generally employees in the food service industry, are among the lowest income households in America. These people do not typically have any education beyond highschool, or they are students who are simply trying to survive until they have their degree. In these cases it is not so much of an ethical dilemma but of a moral dilemma. Which is the lesser of the two evils, let yourself and your family go hungry or steal to provide what is needed simply for

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