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Hypothetical moral dilemma
Feb. 12th, 2007 03:47 pmThis isn't me I hasten to add. But I would appreciate your thoughts on this modern moral dilemma.
Miss B works for a large professional services firm. She has worked for three months on a secondment to a client a couple of hundred miles away. She travelled by train (first class, which she was entitled to because the journey was more than two hours) to and from the client a couple of times each week.
The train operator awarded her with some free first class tickets - sort of like a frequent flyer thing.
Now here's the moral dilemma:
Rather than use the free tickets to go away for the weekend or something (she possibly fancied some time at home after being away all summer), she has used them on further journeys to the same client, and has then claimed from her employer the cost of a standard rail ticket on expenses.
So, has she done anything morally wrong? On the one hand she has claimed as expenses something which did not cost her anything, but on the other hand it did cost her the use of the free tickets she had been given (and arguably she saved her employer money by only claiming a standard fare).
Those of you who don't work for a 'large professional services firm', answer the question "Was this morally wrong?". Those of you who do, please also answer the question "Do you think this broke the rules?"
Miss B works for a large professional services firm. She has worked for three months on a secondment to a client a couple of hundred miles away. She travelled by train (first class, which she was entitled to because the journey was more than two hours) to and from the client a couple of times each week.
The train operator awarded her with some free first class tickets - sort of like a frequent flyer thing.
Now here's the moral dilemma:
Rather than use the free tickets to go away for the weekend or something (she possibly fancied some time at home after being away all summer), she has used them on further journeys to the same client, and has then claimed from her employer the cost of a standard rail ticket on expenses.
So, has she done anything morally wrong? On the one hand she has claimed as expenses something which did not cost her anything, but on the other hand it did cost her the use of the free tickets she had been given (and arguably she saved her employer money by only claiming a standard fare).
Those of you who don't work for a 'large professional services firm', answer the question "Was this morally wrong?". Those of you who do, please also answer the question "Do you think this broke the rules?"
