Ways of Integrity in the World by Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka - HTML preview

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Unethical

One of the electrical equipment dealers was known to me, he sells the reverse osmosis filters of a particular company. He also attends the service calls for the product sold. That is, if there is any repair or failure they visit the house of the client and repair or replace the parts and earn some money. The margin of commission on the sale of the product was meagre, but he was very happy as there was a frequent failure of parts and by attending the service he earned a good amount of money. Recently some of the frequently failing parts were improved and now he is getting very few calls to attend the services. Therefore his service business was not so profitable.

Now the company representative and this dealer were fighting. The dealer says ‘how can we survive if we don’t get any service calls? So make some parts in such a way that they fail very often and we could run our business.’ In this world, for running the show of business economics people can go to any length of losing integrity.

In another case, a famous seed company was treating the seeds in acid so that some percentage of seeds do not germinate. This is one of the most criminal acts of a seed company. The government permits that each company selling seeds could have a percentage of seeds which do not germinate for various reasons. But this company tested that almost 99 percent of its seeds were germinating. So to make the farmer buy an additional quantity of seeds, they treat the permissible percentage of seeds in acid and mix with the healthy seeds and sell. No government takes action against the seed companies fraud - for the losses caused to a farmer for no other reason but by the greedy humans.

As a government rule, a percentage of stones, soil, dust and excreta of rats is permitted in the finished rice. If a dealer had relatively clean rice, to gain some additional profit, they were mixing with the above permissible material. This is another criminal act, where many women used to clean the rice for several days, where their valuable time and energy is lost.

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