What would you do if you found someone's digital media card from their camera in your taxi
I would do what I would expect any decent person to do....give it to the driver and tell him someone left this behind. I can't image the sense of violation the owner will feel once identified. The scumbags putting these up for the world to see will face civil culpability almost certainly. IMHO they also belong behind bars, but I doubt this will happen. Now I eagerly await the flurry of posts along the lines of "Hey, they forgot the memory card so they deserve their private photos posted on the internet". This is Slashdot after all.
If you submit a rebate then return something you never intended on keeping in order to pocket the rebate, you are for lack of a better term, a piece of shit. There are certain situations where the timing is just bad...you buy something and send off the rebate, they try it and decide you want something different and return it. Problem is they can't read your mind to know if it's scam or not. Apparently they can't electronically cancel your rebate, maybe they need that kind of linkage to the rebate center to solve the problem.
In the case of taking up a salesperson's time asking questions about a product when you were always intending to buy online or somewhere else...is so clearly ethically wrong it's beyond debate.
Clearly there is value in using a customer's historical data to make an evaluation...if the customer typically spends $1000 a year at your store, it makes no business sense to risk losing them over an occasional $50 dispute. Let them win. If there's a pattern of habitual abuse of your leanient return policy, then there's less of business case for pleasing them. At a big electronics retailer on the west coast I actually saw someone try to return a older model printer with no receipt, box or manual. Just walked in the printer, dumped it on the counter, and wanted their money back. Clearly the type of customer a business does not want sucking up the oxygen of good customers.
SETI has become a substitute religion. Athiests and secularists often claim they are so intellectually enlightened that they don't need religion. They laugh at and mock people of faith that go to church, mosque, or synagogue, but then expect to be taken seruiously and regard themselves as profound deep thinkers because they sit in front of their screensavers waiting for a blip from planet XYZ. How many years sitting in front of the screensavers will it take before athiests concede they their pursuit to find extra-terrestrial life is just as faith-based as conventional religion?
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What would you do if you found someone's digital media card from their camera in your taxi
I would do what I would expect any decent person to do....give it to the driver and tell him someone left this behind. I can't image the sense of violation the owner will feel once identified. The scumbags putting these up for the world to see will face civil culpability almost certainly. IMHO they also belong behind bars, but I doubt this will happen. Now I eagerly await the flurry of posts along the lines of "Hey, they forgot the memory card so they deserve their private photos posted on the internet". This is Slashdot after all.
If you submit a rebate then return something you never intended on keeping in order to pocket the rebate, you are for lack of a better term, a piece of shit. There are certain situations where the timing is just bad...you buy something and send off the rebate, they try it and decide you want something different and return it. Problem is they can't read your mind to know if it's scam or not. Apparently they can't electronically cancel your rebate, maybe they need that kind of linkage to the rebate center to solve the problem.
In the case of taking up a salesperson's time asking questions about a product when you were always intending to buy online or somewhere else...is so clearly ethically wrong it's beyond debate.
Clearly there is value in using a customer's historical data to make an evaluation...if the customer typically spends $1000 a year at your store, it makes no business sense to risk losing them over an occasional $50 dispute. Let them win. If there's a pattern of habitual abuse of your leanient return policy, then there's less of business case for pleasing them. At a big electronics retailer on the west coast I actually saw someone try to return a older model printer with no receipt, box or manual. Just walked in the printer, dumped it on the counter, and wanted their money back. Clearly the type of customer a business does not want sucking up the oxygen of good customers.
SETI has become a substitute religion. Athiests and secularists often claim they are so intellectually enlightened that they don't need religion. They laugh at and mock people of faith that go to church, mosque, or synagogue, but then expect to be taken seruiously and regard themselves as profound deep thinkers because they sit in front of their screensavers waiting for a blip from planet XYZ. How many years sitting in front of the screensavers will it take before athiests concede they their pursuit to find extra-terrestrial life is just as faith-based as conventional religion?