So we had to do this corporate ethics online training thing a while back. I ignored it since it's utter bullshit. "Beth decides to award the big contract to her husband's company. Would this be against the code of ethics?" Ugh.

I got a nag email today telling me to do it or else. So I logged on to the third-party training website, went through all the steps, read the examples (I opted out of the audio-enhanced version without even having heard it first) and took their quiz. I almost just did the quiz first without reading anything, but I had a sneaky suspicion that they log what pages you see. It was banal. "Kim Wong has joined the sale force. Ted says Kim should come over to his place after work, as he 'likes to eat Asian...'". I couldn't make stuff like that up. One page was so comical I printed it out.

Jim walks over to my desk as I'm reading this nonsense and I mention that I'm doing the online ethics training. He says that he has it scheduled for later in the day, and asks about it. And I unwittingly violate the code of ethics, right there in the middle of the test. Our conversation went like:

"Is that it? The website we have to go to?"

"Yeah. Annoying, too. Resizes the window for you, uses Flash, opens new pop-ups all over the place, real basic common sense busy-work."

"Huh. Looks really boring."

"Yeah, but you know, the Beth chick in the tutorials is actually kinda hot..."

But I passed the quiz, in spite of myself!