Edward Snowden

Whistleblowing is ne of the most controversial labels to have in our current society. You be a whistleblower it can lead you down the path of being someone who will get negative attention or someone who will get great praise. Through this many whistleblowers are brought into the public light. One of the biggest and most recent whistleblower is Edward Snowden. Through him the world was able to see the atrocities the government was doing against the people of the United States. The difference with his case and the Douglas Durand case was Snowden’s motivations were not driven by a monetary value. In the case of Durand, he was driven mostly by money.

Benefits to whistleblowing
There are many benefits to whistleblowing. One of the biggest benefits
Douglas Durand was a man who was setting up the company and working with the government to do so. Through this he was having secret meetings to be able to build a better case against them. He also filled a private law suit against them to ensure he got money when the case got exposed. Through this it displayed a very weak set of ethics from Mr. Durand. His primary goal was to get money not to fix the wrongful practices that were taking place. The ethics of the government is very similar. They are attempting to catch this company, but the way in which they attained that information was in a grey area at best. They were bordering on the part of entrapment. I believe that non of the major players in this case were acting ethically. I feel as though the actions of whistleblowing were justified in this case. I believe them was a problem in which the company wasn’t following the rules and the way to stop that is bring it to the public. I don’t believe that Durand was ethical in his approach to bringing this information to the public. His motivations were based off of a monetary value and not an ethical standpoint. Through this I believe that his actions were justified but his ethics were
I was working for a gentleman who was adjusting the book. He was under reporting his sales in order to pay less money in Royalty. Through this he was able to save a percentage of his money. The problem I had was this is he was stealing from the company. I didn’t appreciate this and I didn’t think this was professional and appropriate. The biggest issue I had with this was not only was he under reporting but when I realized that he would report me as being the reason for the under reporting. I decided to report all of the stealing to the company he was stealing from. Through this I lost my job because he eventually found out that it was me and couldn’t trust me anymore. I don’t regret the decision that I made and I don’t blame him for firing me. It was a bad situation and I am happy I am not part of it