Today we hear a lot about makeovers. It’s all about appearances these days with people opting in for extreme makeovers from their own looks to their pets, cars, houses et al. Can anything and everything in our lives be “made over” these days? What about our moral identity? I mean our ethics, our honesty, truthfulness, our commitment to do the right thing, caring for others, our true beliefs… can we do a makeover on all these moral values?
I’ve seen that people with a strong sense of moral values don’t always win. Their moral mind drives them to make the morally correct choice. If their decision works out for them, they’ll call it luck. If not, it’s fate and they’ll succumb to it.
I have a friend who was working as a Team Lead for a technical team in a MNC (Multi National Company) and had an IJP (Internal Job Posting) interview in her office for an Operations Manager post. My friend is a strong believer of ethics and her moral values. So, even though she had a friend (an insider) who could pull some strings for her in the interview panel, who could have maxed her chances of securing the job – my dear friend would do no such thing. She decided to play by the rules.
She called it her fate when she did not get the job. But little did she know at the time that the IJP was just a formality. Everything was pre-planned; pre-decided. She had no chance to begin with. Was it really fate?
Is this what one gets for being truthful and ethical in this world? My friend would have made a great Ops Manager. She was very good technically and had impressive people management skills. Instead, someone far less qualified got the job while my friend was asked to wait another 3 months before she would be allowed (as per company rules) to apply for the next IJP.
I believe there are a lot of situations like these in each of our lives, especially in today’s corporate world, where we are subjected to politics, favoritism’s, backbiting and many more morally incorrect ways to get what we want. We are forced to choose a path where we have to consider having a moral makeover. When did this become the norm?
Choosing a wrong way and then claiming that it is for something right, does it really make it right?
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