Dilemma
A few months ago I walked out to our service desk and found a $20 bill on the ground. I immediately asked the staff member at the desk who had been the last person to check out a book. With that person's description I walked around the library until I found a match and asked "Did you by chance drop anything at the desk when you checked out that book". The patron searched through their pockets and reported a missing $20 bill. I believe I found the bill's home.
With that character history in mind, I have an ethical question for the blogsphere. I'm stranded in my place of employment this week with no assistance and today, with no lunch. Being a service industry, I can't leave to get lunch, so I ordered out and paid over the phone with a credit card, 'cause I'm broke. Since I am without cash, it now occurs to me that I have nothing to tip the delivery guy with, and finding our location, not to mention finding a place to park, is a real pain in the ass.
So can I use the $5 bill that has been in our lost and found for 3 years to tip the delivery guy?
If you vote no, do you think that tipping with the L&F $5 will be worse for my Karma that not tipping the poor guy who is currently hiking his ass 4 blocks uphill on foot to find the obscure room where he's been ordered to go?
If they're about equal in terms of Karma points, I may have to suck it up and use the $5. No sense in screwing up the delivery guy's day too.
With that character history in mind, I have an ethical question for the blogsphere. I'm stranded in my place of employment this week with no assistance and today, with no lunch. Being a service industry, I can't leave to get lunch, so I ordered out and paid over the phone with a credit card, 'cause I'm broke. Since I am without cash, it now occurs to me that I have nothing to tip the delivery guy with, and finding our location, not to mention finding a place to park, is a real pain in the ass.
So can I use the $5 bill that has been in our lost and found for 3 years to tip the delivery guy?
If you vote no, do you think that tipping with the L&F $5 will be worse for my Karma that not tipping the poor guy who is currently hiking his ass 4 blocks uphill on foot to find the obscure room where he's been ordered to go?
If they're about equal in terms of Karma points, I may have to suck it up and use the $5. No sense in screwing up the delivery guy's day too.
posted by Sylow_P | 11:23 AM
12 Comments:
I think more info is needed. Are there any psychos out who would love to run around screaming "HE'S STEALING FROM THE LOST & FOUND!!!!"
If so, I would only take this action if all others had been exhausted.
You just had to play that "Don't you have a disgruntled former employee lurking around on the verge of storming into your office with a gun to shoot you, and/or convince the world you are a total creep" card, didn't you?
It's not like that's a card which is buried deep in the deck or anything.
I asked Miss Kate about your dilemma and she said you could use the $ for tipping, but then you should donate $5 to something else.
also...don't you have several disgruntled former employees?
Ah, Miss Kate always knows what to do. Us slobs would have never considered reimbursing the L&F.
As for your last accusation Sparky, I'd like to remind you that even words can be well-ordered. It goes one, a couple, a few, and then several. So to answer your question, No, I do not have several former employees lurking about plotting my demise... And students don't count, btw.
If students counted, then would 'several' have been accurate and well-ordered? Cause I was under the impression that they did count and that 'several' or perhaps 'many' or even 'all' of them held some sort of grudge against you.
Including students *might* double the number, but it would still be well under 'several'.
Where were we before the possible doubling? A couple or a few?
If you double a couple, are you in a few?
If you double a few are you still in a few or do we enter into several?
And how much is "well under several?"
I need to report that I saw one of those students who might have my death on their 'to-do' list, and they went out of their way to say hello and let me know that they've straightened themselves out thanks to my notice that they were a total fuck-up.
[Note: this is the one who once claimed to be late for work because they couldn't find their keys. When I asked where they did find their keys, the reply came "in and empty beer case in the fridge."]
This is a semi-group of 6 elements (0, 1, Couple, Few, Several, Many). I haven't finished the operation table, but I believe 1^2=C, C^2=F, F^2=S, S^2=M, and M^2=M. It is quite similar to the number systems of the ancient peoples of Africa.
In light of the student i spoke with last night, I believe there are only C or F people wishing me dead at this point in time.
I hope you ordered something cold, like a sandwich or a salad...you've been worrying about this for days, and if you'd ordered a pizza it would definitely not be hot by now.
This is simple: Whoever left the five, didn't care enough about it to hunt it down. The poor fiver sat in lost and found like an ophan...day after day, week after week, with nothing to do but wait...wait for its purpose to be revealed.
Voila, deliverman comes, you grab the five and put it to use...it is now circulating and happy - useful and busy...going from pocketbooks and wallets to cash drawers and back again...You've given it a purpose again. Props
PS - Last few times I've stopped by you have been under maintenance...so they tell me.
(Hi Sparky!)
I woulda kept the $20, mostly cause I'm too lazy to wandering around to figure out who lost it. Plus i woulda bought lunch.
But then a piano probably would've fallen off a building and landed on my head, not actually killing me but injuring me very very badly, so it's probably best that I didn't find that $20.
I would have DEFINITALY used the L&F a looong time ago. I wouldn't even have the option to use it in the situation you were in.
I frequently have the same dilemma b/c I have to depend on student workers to cover my absences. This is what I do on a regular basis: I borrow money from the till that we collect for copies (heaven forbid we get one of those fancy copiers where you put the money right in) and go buy eggs in the cafeteria a.k.a. 'The Sleaze & Slime', then reimburse the till the next day. Everybody knows I'm much more pleasant when well fed. Heck, the kids all write I.O.U.s for their copies, why can't I?
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