Shana V. Mitchell
Bus-309 Business Ethics
Professor Garry Williams
Mid-Term Report
3 November 2011

1. Describe how typical the attitudes that Sheehy reports appear to be in work environments you have experienced.
-I have worked in many different types of environments and have experienced many different attitudes of my fellow co-workers. There are some who are messy, just talk about others for no reason; there were others who were mean with nasty attitudes very unpleasant and rude to customers. Being lazy was a very big issue because no one wanted to work together and help out, they only were to do just what they had to do and nothing more, but they would want to steal time by staying longer hours but doing nothing, and they would also steal supplies from the daycare to use at their homes. Sheehy’s co-workers were trying to get rid of their customers as fast as possible. 2. Explain the implications of the work ethic Sheehy describes for the future of American Business. -Because of the lack of respect and work ethics, employees will become unappreciative and unreliable, because they don’t care. Exploitation will occur when the employer start to give the employee long hours, and less pay which will cause the employees to rebel and not care about the importance of doing their job responsibly. 3. Explain whether it is more reasonable to expect workers, especially in a capitalist society, to be more devoted to their jobs, more concerned with quality and customer service, than Sheehy’s co-workers were. -Yes it is more reasonable, because I believe that Sheehy’s co-workers were young childish teenagers who had no respect for customers, just straight disregard for their feelings. They were also very unreliable and irresponsible. Workers in a capitalist society I think value their work and knows what it takes to be a hard