The Business Ethics Blog

Here’s an interesting website that allows you to post anonymously “the most unethical thing you’ve done in business”: Ethics Crisis Confessions.

It also allows others to rate just how unethical whatever you’ve confessed to is — on a scale from 1 (“Always Acceptable”) to 5 (“Never Acceptable”). The average of all past ratings is displayed for each confession.

As it stands, the site is pretty interesting (in a voyeuristic kind of way, I guess). It would be even more interesting if the site collected richer statistics from those who vote (Do you work for a big company yourself? Is your objection to this practice based on a) Respect for Property Rights, b) Respect for persons, c) social welfare, etc.)

The site also lets you leave comments after any of the confessions. The comments make for great reading. Though the site is pretty new, the comments already range from very sensible through to preachy outrage, etc. I’m sure they’ll only get more fun as time goes on.

Finally, I can’t help pointing out that a lot of what’s reported on the site is not just unethical, but illegal. Take, for example, this person, who admits that stealing expensive items from the office is “probably not ethical.” Um, yeah.

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(Thanks to Rebel Sell for the heads-up.