The subheading to that essay could decipher:
"How the little guy gets squashed by the establishment"
You might say: "So what's new. We be schooled that that happens all the supporting." - And you are probably right.
Let's start at the beginning: that breakfast time I was sitting at the breakfast table reading the newspaper when I ran crossed an AP-commentary about an accountant in a wee town bank. The chronicle said that he is a teacher of accounting now, and that he uses his own epic to teach his students.
Don't you sometimes hope the little guy gains?
Are you sometimes frustrated that the establishment, being it the city administration or government, a corporation, or a immense organization seems to get away with newsletters you, as a private guy, never would?
Not all battles are the equal, and not all of them are worth fighting. In one of our communities here a sole student wrote a letter to his school demanding that the paintings an! d sculptures of a warrior Indian be removed configuration campus. He feels they are offensive and portrait Indians as war-mongering. The school board just now decided to keep the denomination "Warrior" but remove all signs of the Indian head from everywhere, including letter head, athletic gear, all that. After 80 years of tradition and pride to be a Warrior, one student's letter is that's it to get the whole community up in arms. In my view it's a huge waste of energy and date.
I myself am involved in a fight on a smaller scale. As a former employee of a band that went bankrupt, a group of my brothers and I are still hoping to get some of the compensation the troupe owes us. We have old hat waiting and fighting for 3 years now.
suddenly there are the other fights, related the one I gather about in the paper, of the teacher named Dave Welch. In that case I really hope the little guy bombshells. Here is what happened. pending times of massive corporate scandals a! t Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, etc. Mr Welch refused to prediction t! he finan cial statement of the bank he was effective for. As the accountant he has to attest with his signature that all the numbers are precise. He suspected that qualities weren't all clean, and so he didn't manifestation.
The federal government, in the red tape of the US Congress, had passed a law to protect whistle blowers, same Mr. Welch, from repression in case they erect or suspected something was wrong. The exposition I construe in the paper that sunrise speaks about the fact that the protection as originally intended doesn't really seem to exist. Of a total of 1091 cases, the little guys only got a favorable ruling 17 times; that's reduced than 2% - some protection, if you ask me.
As you can imagine, after being fired from his bank for not signing the financial statements, Mr. Welch didn't find chore in his little town. Even when he applied further away the fact that he was a whistleblower has square seen as a risk for employers. He had to persuade his farm, lost! all his savings, and now is a teacher instead of an accountant. He did the right thing under the law. He spoke up when he suspected wrong doing, but nobody is willing to enforce that law. The courts have ordered the bank 4 times so far to pay Mr. Welch his back pay and rehire him, at least temporary, or give him a severance package.
Each bit the bank refused and appealed the decisions. that case is probably dragging on for years to come.
Does that mean I advocate to keep your mouths shut and overlook blatant mistakes or crooked behaviors? No, not at all. What I deem anybody in that kind of a situation requirements to be aware is that: Don't suspect any guidance as the laws passed in the last 8 years are predominantly in favor of line. Even in cases where they appear to protect the employee, they get interpreted by government administrators in ways that hold off consequences.
If we are lucky, we might get better government after the next presidential elect! ions. Even if that happens, it will take years to rigorous the! bountif ul predicaments that have come from an overly pro-line atmosphere.
I am a specialty and leadership coach and consultant. I depend on clients formation that niche. Still, I believe we do outwardly to recognize our core values and apply the rules and laws equally for all. A bank can wax it's legal budge from $100.000 per year to $400.000 per year to fight a little guy selfsame Mr. Welch. marvelous leadership and laboring with a reputable coach and consultant would mean to find a way to solve the issue, review the evidence, admit wrong ding, if that is warranted, and safe the legal fees. With the legal fees the bank spend the last 5 years they could have helped a lot of their customers and sire new larger profits.
I believe there is a prodigious lesson to be learned from that news: When you be refer to you are right and you are patient competent to look, you will find others who agree and will take a fluky on you. Here is how the non-fiction ends:
Mr. Welch ap! plied for a job as a teacher at Franklin University in Ohio. The feature puts: "At the end of the interview Mr. Welch was shown into the office of Paul Otto, the schools president at the present.
Mr. Otto is a blunt-spoken lengthy-ago Marine who sits on two corporate boards. He'd heard about Mr. Welch. The case, Mr. Otto said, reminded him of an editorial he'd written a few months before the interview, on the exact to challenge corporate authority.
He invited Mr. Welch to take a seat opposite a coffee table in a desk-subordinate office. "Let me ask you," Mr. Otto said, "did you refuse to certify the banks financial statements or did you portent them and suddenly blow the whistle?"
"I refused to omen," Mr. Welch said, unsure which was the right back talk. It was superb sufficient for Mr. Otto, whose discourse preaches that memo:
"The greatest failures resulting from unchallenged authority have occurred when inhabitants reporting directly to the CEO la! cked the courage to challenge their boss."
Mr. Welch got! the job ."
As mentioned at the beginning, he could have gotten frustrated and bitter with the justice combination, the labor constituency, the community that expelled him, although he didn't do anything wrong.
congenial thing he didn't. He is still patiently hoping that the intent of the law will ultimately give him the back-pay the courts have ordered the bank to pay several times by now. More importantly, he is using his gag to instigate other future accountants to be vigilant and stand up for what is right.
Having strong confidence, the willingness to stand up for what is right, and be firm in your convictions isn't honorable a lesson for a little guy, an employee or a lower lined up manager, but for executives and leaders among all of us. And virtuous through attributes might not go our way immediately doesn't mean we should give up. I hope very few folks have to give up their farm, their job, their community, and their adherents, to fight for what is right.
Mr. Welch's description inspires me to keep going and not turning bitter. I hope anybody being involved in similar situations will see that being strong, full of positive energy and patience is the source of the bent it takes to persevere.
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