Cheating Others is The New Normal

The misconduct of the financial industry no longer surprises most Americans. Only about one in five has much trust in banks, according to Gallup polls, about half the level in 2007. And it’s not just banks that are frowned upon. Trust in big business overall is declining. Sixty-two percent of Americans believe corruption is widespread across corporate America. According to Transparency International, an anti-corruption watchdog, nearly three in four Americans believe that corruption has increased over the last three years.

We should be alarmed that corporate wrongdoing has come to be seen as such a routine occurrence.  Company executives are paid to maximize profits, not to behave ethically.

When we real estate went crazy, real estate agents and loan officers just thought about their own self-interest, big commissions, big dollars in their own pocket, and they didn't care if they were hurting the people, in fact their own clients. HOW DUMB! HOW CARELESS! HOW SELFISH! HOW DESTRUCTIVE!

If you think about yourself as opposed to others, you have to be a miserable person. You cannot feel any satisfaction for others. You become the center of the world and it's all about you. Unfortunately it should work the other way around. You have to give to receive. If you only take, you won't get much in return. A little but for a while, it won't be forever. If you set a plan plan just for yourself, others people will know and won't identify with you. People have their priorities. Employes have theirs, customers as well. Take care of their priorities as you should, and they will give you back.

When I was working in the restaurant industry, every manager I have ever encountered were backing up the owners' scheme, which is often time to belittle the workers, treat them as dummies, make sure they work as little hours as possible to cut labor cost. The owner wanted to make sure the manager follow their plan. Cut labor cost, kitchen has to keep food cost low, let's not trust anyone and.............. and they all forget to think outside the box and neglect the most important, which is to treat everybody right around, so they treat the customer right and build customer loyalty.

Very few restaurants and businesses can last with that type of thinking.Think little and you'll achieve little. Think outside the box, see" la vie en grand" and you'll outlast your competition. The number of businesses that come and go and infinite. Few last and if they do it's because they do something right. Not sure what you think you do better than others.

Strangely managers were agreeing to an owner's plan even though it was to break the law. Meaning not paying over time to workers or even not even paying labor. One owner I worked for was stealing the waiter's tips to pay the managers. HOW LUDICROUS! Restaurant managers used to be waiters, but a majority of them turn against employees once they get appointed by a boss.

Those who constantly hurt others should see the consequences of depriving others of what's their due. If you do not pay overtime to your employees, will they have to work more hours to pay their bills? Does that mean they cannot see their spouse and kids as they are entitled to? Will they have to work 365 days a year and not go on vacation? If they were born in another country will they be deprived of going back and visit their family members because you do not pay what you owe them?

You can't cheat the public for long. - Tennessee Ernie Ford

When real estate agents and mortgage brokers were cheating homeowners what happened to those families? Some got kicked out of their home? Families and kids were in the street? Cats and dogs were abandoned. Some people killed themselves. Others killed others because they were desperate. Why can't people think beyond their own self-interest and see how much misery they will spread out because of their greed? Are real estate agents, mortgage brokers better off today? CERTAINLY NOT. Most are out of the business. Their home has lost value, as well as their retirement. They probably have a lot less in their bank account as well. They can no longer make a great income, and all their past customers will never go back to them. So what have they built? Nothing. They went back to zero.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. - Anatole France.

We live in a society where we hear all day long that people cheat, betray, steal, and mistreat others. This has  become the norm in our society. Courtesy, kindness, appreciation, gratitude and priority to others is no longer the norm. So if people see you being kind, courteous, or appreciative they will notice it because it is such a rare thing nowadays. Those values have disappeared and if you display them, you will be rewarded by customers and people all around you.

You can cheat the laws of the Unites States all day long (until you get caught), but you cannot cheat the laws of nature. Whatever you put out there, will come back to you. You cannot cheat that laws. The truth is that those who deliberately act in a negative way towards others are miserable and they want others to feel the same. They have to bring down other people to their own level. The problem is that it will never make them feel better and nothing will ever make them happy.


I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating. - Sophocles.