Quitting job for ethical reasons?

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Has anyone ever had to quit/leave a job for ethical reasons - the place you worked for did something you thought was not ethical and you could not be associated with it? Have you felt like you didn't have a choice? Please feel free to PM me if you don't want to discuss openly.

 

[FOJMO]

Not me, but a teacher friend of mine was teaching at a private school. She gave one of her students a deserved failing grade.

The student's parents came in to talk to my friend, and they wanted her to change the grade to an "A"! She wouldn't do it, told the principal, and quit on the spot!

 

[mamajoan]

I stopped working for a Doctor because he was billing patients and insurances for Physical Therapy treatments.. problem was that I found out that the Man who was doing the majority of treatments was A massage therapist ( there is no degree needed to be a massage therapist.. yes it is a fine profession but it is not to be confused with a Physical Therapist)
Therefore I quit..

 

[mamajoan]

I stopped working for a Doctor because he was billing patients and insurances for Physical Therapy treatments.. problem was that I found out that the Man who was doing the majority of treatments was A massage therapist and was passing himself off as an RPT to me. ( there is no degree needed to be a massage therapist.. yes it is a fine profession but it is not to be confused with a Physical Therapist)
Therefore I quit..

 

[Kermit]

I had to quit a job for ethical reasons. The woman who owned the company just made really bad decisions. She was always running out of money and was late with our paychecks. She wanted to fire a woman with cancer who was using the company's health insurance and have me take over our job. She also wanted us to do some unethical things, but I can't really say what they are without revealing what the company was. (It's still in business and being run by the same woman.)

I felt a lot better after I quit. In fact, I got pregnant right after I quit, and I don't think I would have been able to while I was working there.

 

[worm761]

i quit a job once because of my boss. i had to take DS to the doctors immediately. so i left work. on my way out the door my boss told me to get my priorities straight. i told him they were and that he could take his job and shove it!

 

[CarolA]

The final blow on leaving the job I held for 14 years was when my boss told me my employee's work was "craX" (fill in the X). This was the final step in a trend which told me that my group of older females was going to be abused just because we were older females. Yes, I know it is illegal, but I was not willing to impale myself on that mountain!

 

[Buckalew]

Not me (but I should have!) but DH did awhile back. It was a job in the hospital ER.

 

[sogger1]

I did this past December. In order to save a paltry sum of money, my former company decided that it would do away with genuine paper pay vouchers. For our "convenience" our W2, W4 and pay vouchers would be put on a "secure" website and stored for three years. We could print them off at work. The only way to opt out was to quit. I felt my privacy was invaded and my freedom of choice take away.

 

[anniet]

First time was for a credit union in the community. Basically it was small-town stuff. My Dad owns his own landscaping company and the CEO asked me if my Dad was landscaping the VP's yard just to get the contract for landscaping the credit union property......I was so insulted I quit on the spot! I later heard the head of HR went into his office and chewed him a new one for that!

Second time I was hired to solicit accounts to put their collections with the collection agency that hired me.

Then one day I had to sit and listen to how the collectors worked on the phone. I heard some girl yelling at a lady who must have said she couldn't pay because she just had a baby "Yeah, how would your baby like to know her mother is a deadbeat?" Again- Quit on the spot!

If I can't respect 'em, I can't work for 'em!!!!!

 

[Krisu]

I had been working as a nurse at a hospital-run Walk-In for seven years without 1 sick day. Over the course of a week I was having leg pain which I guessed to be signs of a herniated disc. I was able to see my Dr. that day after I called. I cleared it with the M.D. on duty at work, went to appt and returned within 1 hour. I was later approached by the Business Manager who said "do you think you can come and go as you please?" Well...I decided to go permanently

 

[Disney Doll]

Worked for an insurance company as a nurse-reviewer. About a year before I quit, I got a new supervisor who basically told us "If a claim is questionable, deny it. Let the member fight for it." My job was to review claims that were questionable, and request more information as needed to determine payment. My job was NOT to just deny it and then let someone fight for coverage that might rightfully be theirs. That and many other reasons led me to think that the company and I were no longer practicing under the same code of ethics.

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

Originally posted by Disney Doll
Worked for an insurance company as a nurse-reviewer. About a year before I quit, I got a new supervisor who basically told us "If a claim is questionable, deny it. Let the member fight for it." My job was to review claims that were questionable, and request more information as needed to determine payment. My job was NOT to just deny it and then let someone fight for coverage that might rightfully be theirs. That and many other reasons led me to think that the company and I were no longer practicing under the same code of ethics.

That sounds exactly like a certain HMO I worked for. I worked customer service there for 2 LONG years. Never in my life have I had to listen to such horrible stories from members being denied treatment and services. I wish I had the courage to quit but I needed the money and the health insurance.

 

[KimRaye]

I did, just last year but, it was a part-time management job for a friend over-seas. He & his dw really wanted me to play legal hard-ball with an UP-scale tenant and, I wouldn't do it. I thought they were really unreasonable so, with a notice, I quit.

 

[HauntedMansionGeek]

Yes. Quitting my job put us in a financial pickle but I couldn't continue working there when it was going to compromise my ethics to the degree that it was going to.

I gave my two weeks and didn't look back. (much)

It's amazing what some companies still get away with to this day.

 

[Cindy B]

Yes, I have had some questionable bosses in my day.