Case #1: Answer the 4 questions below as either True or False.

Fred was excited about starting his new job at Griddloc Highway Paving Company. He will be in charge of the cones and barrels division. He was to make sure they were fully in place before the paving equipment arrived to begin work. The person, he replaced, had been fired, the week before, for not following orders. Fred knew he was the kind of honest person his new employer could rely upon and he would not have that problem.

The companys next job was road repair on the busy interstate highway and was to start in two weeks, on Monday morning the 18th. Fred figured he would have to have his crew putting up the cones and barrels at 5 am that day since the job would take about an hour and a half and the paving crew was to start at 7 am. Fred was shocked, therefore, when his boss, Mr. Martin, told him the cones and barrels were to be put-up Thursday afternoon on the 14th.

Fred replied, That doesnt make any sense, it will back up traffic for miles for the Thursday and Friday commutes as well as the busy weekend, needlessly ruining peoples plans and in general making thousands of people miserable. What about the wasted time, the wasted gas, the crying children who need to get to a restroom?

Mr. Martin defended the practice with these words: You dont just get handed state contracts. Its pay to play if you know what I mean. But the big boys have ways of getting your money back to you. For roadwork, they let contracts start a few days before the work really begins, so contractors can get extra money. On this contract, we will get $5 a day for each cone in place beginning on the 14^th, and $100 a day for each flashing arrow sign. Since this job needs 300 cones and 4 signs, that comes to $1,900 a day and $7,600 for the set-up period, counting Thursday.

Everybody does it. How many times have you been in back-ups and when you get to the site, nothing is going on? It is perfectly legal; and thats the way things have been done in this state ever since I can remember. So, if you have a problem with the way we do things around here, theres the door. I can have you replaced before the hour is out. Its your choice.

1. From Freds perspective in AOL Case # 3, Fred does not have an ethical dilemma because he can do nothing to change a corrupt and harmful practice that has been going on for years. TRUE OR FALSE?

2. From the AOL Case # 3 narrative, one can conclude that the problem is only a legal issue because the part of the job Fred does not like is legal. TRUE OR FALSE?

3. From the AOL Case # 3 narrative, one can see that Fred is confronting a choice between the ethical principle of responsibility, as it applies to providing for his family, and the ethical principle of social contract, as it applies to not harming others. TRUE OR FALSE?

4. From the AOL Case # 3 narrative, one can see that Griddloc Highway Paving Company is upholding the ethical principle of profit maximization; because, if it puts the cones and barrels up when the construction actually begins, its shareholders will lose $7,600. TRUE OR FALSE?