Was listening to Anil Menon from IBM giving a lecture about his life's lessons. When he was talking about ethics in the business world today, he said the guys from Enron did not start their day thinking they were going to swindle the stock holders. The mistakes just add up. Problem with the Enron culture was that it condoned small ethical mistakes and they just added up. Mr. Menon actually challenged the audience to show how many had totally true resumes.
I owe up. My resume is a homogeneous mixture (that is the language you pick up if you are married to a chemcial engineer) of truth, half truth, half lies and blatant never-even-heard-of-it-but-will-add-it-in-my-resume lies. I do not have the courage to take it out of my resume because I know everyone else has them too and don't want to be penalized for my ethical awakening. (Reminded of a friend who took TCS' interview test without cheating and failed. All the 400+ people, who cleared it cheated.)
I am pretty sure I won't have another chance to correct that. I have to live by my lies. Can add to the lies but can't undo a past lie. (Pretty sure the computer folks have a name for this, like ROM, SROM RRAM, PROM, PERFORM or whatever...)
Of course they will add up and by the time I am fifty I would have added up more of them than stock options. Is this not what happened in the Enrons too? - That you have to live by your lies and there is an escalation of commitment.
Reminded of a good old tamil proverb "oru poiyai maraikka onpathu poi solli..."
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