Professor Spooner's Blog

I think it is fairly difficult to make it less traumatic for whistle-blowers, and I agree it’s because we can’t dramatically change a society’s point of view quickly. The NY Times article linked to here mentions preserving their anonymity, but that method has problems and doesn’t always work. I think that the degree of trauma incurred however depends on the individual: if they are strong-willed and are reporting wrongdoing purely for ethical/moral reasons, then they will (are more likely to) remain resilient even after suffering the consequences of whistle-blowing because those are values that they deem important enough to risk “everything” for. Conversely, people who do it for the money probably don’t have the same amount of will-power to persevere. At the same time though, I also believe that everyone must crack eventually, especially when they have lose all other sources of support. Maybe they can form an organization for whistle-blowers to band together? But that would probably fail because all of the pristine individuals would eventually just be working for each other so wrongdoings would stop being reported. It’s so complicated! The only thing the government can give is money, but unlike in lawsuits, the government doesn’t consider future damages whistle-blowers may incur. Perhaps they should. But then again, money can’t fix everything. I ultimately think the only way to get around this is to make it so that society values ethical/moral righteousness, and that could possibly be accomplished through some cognitive dissonance programs being incorporated into company-wide trainings or something like that.

Every decision has its consequences, even the right one. Ethically, people should expose all wrongdoings. However, they are not requires to, it is still their choice. So it depends on the type of life they want to lead, and how strong willed they are to maintain and abide by that lifestyles. Once they decide what type of people they are, and how they want to lead their life, the decision is easy, they either tell or not. The consequences are just part of that decision, and while no one can control external consequences, how you feel about yourself as a person is what you can control and is what should matter the most.

I am not saying that its then easy to come forward and tell the truth, exposing people or corporations. I have to say I am shocked that whistle-blowers’ privacy is not protected. I don’t think it would encourage more people to become whistle-blowers, people either are whistle-blowers or they aren’t, and they’ll talk regardless of what can happen to them. That is why there are whistle-blowers even now. I think its the best solution to avoid consequences with the whistle-blowers. I don’t think its fair for anyone to be punished for doing the right thing, and I believe that the government should do what it can to prevent punishment.

During the summer I worked at a financial society and the governmental institution that regulates institutions of the sort was implementing a system in which employees could report wrongdoing from anyone else in the company, from other workers, suppliers, directives to customers, while maintaining complete anonymity. I don’t see why the US government can’t or won’t do so if whistle-blowers help them. I am confident that the US government knows how to maintain anonymity for certain people, and they could do so too for whistle-blowers.

I believe it is very difficult to make it less traumatic for whistle-blowers in the event of a trial due to their information being made public. Though the whistle-blower is kept anonymous at first, it would be impossible to keep them “swept under the rag” if they need to testify. Given the gravity of the situation, I do not believe any monetary value associated with whistle-blowing would be able to keep most at ease. It pretty much destroys your reputation because most people will know who you are and why you were fired from that job. They would not want to hire someone with that type of excess baggage into their respective firm. I think steps should be taken to keep whistle-blowers anonymous because the after effects are far too great to just accept monetary value in exchange for all of the problems associated with it.

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