Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Why We Should All Have Integrity
Good things happen when you have integrity.
Example 1:
I’ve written before about the agony my math professor has caused me this semester. We’re supposed to have quizzes and turn in any homework once a week and, though they’re not officially set days, we got on a schedule of having them every Wednesday. Well, one Monday I decided I could miss class without consequence. Bad idea. We ended up having a quiz and turning in homework on Tuesday. I didn’t know any of it. Honestly. And my homework wasn’t done because I thought I had until Wednesday. Needless to say, I didn’t do well.
Somehow though, when I got my quiz back, the grade wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. Great! But, after looking at it for a minute, I realized it was because he had given me credit for the homework I hadn’t turned in. [sigh]
So there was the dilemma. Did I want to risk having him take back the “free” points in favor of knowing I did the right thing? Or keep the points since I needed them?
Solution: I told my professor he’d given me extra points. I had to. I would have felt guilty like… forever. He told me to keep them!!! (I assume because he was lazy and didn’t want to have to fix it.)
Example 2:
My transmission was bad and it was covered under warranty. I took it in and was given the option of going with a transmission the shop chose or a transmission the warranty people chose. If the shop chose, I’d lose the warranty but I’d get a transmission with 43,000 miles. If it didn’t work, I’d have to pay to have it taken out again and wait for however long for a new one to come and be put in. If I had the warranty people choose one, they’d still be responsible for it but I’d probably end up with one that had like… 90,000 miles on it. I asked the shop and they said if I was planning on keeping it, take a chance on the 43,000. If I was planning on selling it, don’t bother with the chance that I’d pay more if the 43,000 one didn’t work, go with the warranty one. But… the one transmission had 43,000 miles and the other had who knows how many. And the warranty would only cover another 4,000-ish miles anyway.
Solution: I talked to M and he and I decided to take a chance on the 43,000 mile one. We know we might have to pay the extra if it didn’t work but, we’d feel like we’d done what we could to it before we sold it. The shop received that part yesterday… put it in today… and… IT WORKS!!! Yeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss!!!*
* I’ve never had a better experience with a car repair. Ever. In my life. If you ever need a new transmission, go there. I’m serious. I’m taking them breakfast tomorrow, I think. They were that awesome.
Example 1:
I’ve written before about the agony my math professor has caused me this semester. We’re supposed to have quizzes and turn in any homework once a week and, though they’re not officially set days, we got on a schedule of having them every Wednesday. Well, one Monday I decided I could miss class without consequence. Bad idea. We ended up having a quiz and turning in homework on Tuesday. I didn’t know any of it. Honestly. And my homework wasn’t done because I thought I had until Wednesday. Needless to say, I didn’t do well.
Somehow though, when I got my quiz back, the grade wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. Great! But, after looking at it for a minute, I realized it was because he had given me credit for the homework I hadn’t turned in. [sigh]
So there was the dilemma. Did I want to risk having him take back the “free” points in favor of knowing I did the right thing? Or keep the points since I needed them?
Solution: I told my professor he’d given me extra points. I had to. I would have felt guilty like… forever. He told me to keep them!!! (I assume because he was lazy and didn’t want to have to fix it.)
Example 2:
My transmission was bad and it was covered under warranty. I took it in and was given the option of going with a transmission the shop chose or a transmission the warranty people chose. If the shop chose, I’d lose the warranty but I’d get a transmission with 43,000 miles. If it didn’t work, I’d have to pay to have it taken out again and wait for however long for a new one to come and be put in. If I had the warranty people choose one, they’d still be responsible for it but I’d probably end up with one that had like… 90,000 miles on it. I asked the shop and they said if I was planning on keeping it, take a chance on the 43,000. If I was planning on selling it, don’t bother with the chance that I’d pay more if the 43,000 one didn’t work, go with the warranty one. But… the one transmission had 43,000 miles and the other had who knows how many. And the warranty would only cover another 4,000-ish miles anyway.
Solution: I talked to M and he and I decided to take a chance on the 43,000 mile one. We know we might have to pay the extra if it didn’t work but, we’d feel like we’d done what we could to it before we sold it. The shop received that part yesterday… put it in today… and… IT WORKS!!! Yeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss!!!*
* I’ve never had a better experience with a car repair. Ever. In my life. If you ever need a new transmission, go there. I’m serious. I’m taking them breakfast tomorrow, I think. They were that awesome.
# posted by Lavish @ 11:52 AM 
