
198 Engineering Ethics: An Industrial Perspective
LOOKING BACK, WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE
DIFFERENTLY
?
I would not have done anything differently. I was working on another
project, and couldn’t affect the situation.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW
?
I left the company 9 months after my start date. This situation was
one of the primary reasons I left because it exemplified my company’s
ethics. I had no doubt that I would soon be faced with a similar situa-
tion in my project if I did not leave. All our projects were custom
designs.
My company wrote long legal contracts for every project, with clauses
and penalties for nonperformance. I later learned that my company ...