GOOGLE, INTERNSHIP

From the movie,

INTERNSHIP

Two men that named Nick and Billy were fired from their previous company that selling the luxury watches because the shop is closing down. The Google managers want them although they are not in the age that normal student go internship because they have unique though and actions and the managers are giving the chance for them to go the Google Head Quarter to do their “uncle internship”.

The Google Company is focusing the diversity in their work place. They want different people that have different way of thinking to join them. So they are accepting different people to work with them. However they must fulfill the required requirement of the company.

Red means no, Green means yes!

In the beginning, the Google manager has an ethic lesson with their intern talk about the business ethic and the ethic in the company. The student interns are answering the correct questions that teach by the manager such “Taking beer with your boss”, “taking the company food home”. Two of the “uncle interns” answer the question from their thought that can have beer with their boss and can take the food back to their home. The thought of I'm not doing the wrong things for doing these "unethical" action. If they be a manager in the company, they would be an amoral manager because they dint know they are doing the wrong behavior. The manager that taking care of the intern was very unhappy and very angry about their answer and they just answer what they feel is right.

Actually Malaysia can’t apply this concept that set the free food stall in the company to let the employee to enjoy the free foods and drinks. Because of the Malaysian working behavior and their cultural are different.

Free coffee, free lunch and free banana!!!

 

About the Google working environment, all the employee that work with the Google can enjoy the free food and drinks from their own F&B outlet. The intern can enjoy the foods and the drink as the normal staff from the Google HQ also. For the case of Google, they want their employee have the creativity and their ability for solving the problem. They are hiring the top people in the world to work with them. The objective of setting the free food stall and relaxing workplaces for their employees because Google Company wants their employee work in the comfortable working environment. They believe that they don’t need to be at their desk to need an answer. They can do the research on the beanbag area, the garden or at their home. Al long as the internet is access there.  

The core message is simple: Being a Googler means holding yourself to the highest possible standard of ethical business conduct. This is a matter as much practical as ethical; we hire great people who work hard to build great products, but our most important asset by far is our reputation as a company that warrants our users' faith and trust. That trust is the foundation upon which our success and prosperity rests, and it must be re-earned every day, in every way, by every one of us (Investor.google.com, 2013).

They have an informal motto that states "don't be evil", the googlers generally relate those words to the way they serve their user, as they should. Their working behavior are highly be motivated by themselves. Besides don’t be evil, they also encourage their employee to speak up if they see something that they think isn't right.

The Googler believe that they can make money without doing evil, because Google is a business that earn the revenue that generate by derived from offering search technology to company and from the sale of advertising displayed on their site.  

Company empower the employee and given the flexible time as a source of selves motivation to the employee. The entire employees are highly motivated by themselves to run the job automatically.

Ethic to the employee, they have given the employee the job within the time and within their ability. About the work load, the worker in the Google Company, they have to “find the job themselves”. It means the boss will give the project if they are requesting job from the boss. In the movie, the “uncle intern” wants some job from the manager because he wants to get closer to the female manager. He gets a harder job for developing the HTML5. He fell he have learn something after he get the job from the manager. This show, the manager will help and guide the new comers to finish their job also. They are not giving the job simply to make the employee feel stress and not working on their job. 

Google are choosing the right people to enter their company. They are applying the company structure as the decentralize structure. The employee can do what they wish. But there have some limitation on what they are doing also. They are not limited the drugs and alcohol in their work place, but they have to follow the law of respecting each other in the company. From the law of the company, the have some rules about the equal opportunity employment which talk about the employee have to base on their merit and qualification directly related to professional competence.

From this movie, we learn about why we live, they thought us the Googlelines though that" they work hard for a reason, because they believe that what they do in the Google is help make people’s lives a little bit better". They have believed that they can make something for the human, so that they are working so hard to for the company GOOGLE! The Googler believe that great just isn't enough for them. They are searching and finding to way innovation and iteration, they can work well and improve upon in unexpected way.

If all the company are doing like Google, give flexible time free food for the employee. Is the employee being like Google employees that have high production?

Investor.google.com. 2013. Code of Conduct – Investor Relations – Google. [online] Available at: http://investor.google.com/corporate/code-of-conduct.html [Accessed:17 Oct 2013].

OUR BEHAVIOUR NOWADAYS

 Don't see, don't tell, and don’t hear.

triple monkeysss 

Nowadays, when we saw any things wrong, or anything is not fair for other people, we will only do the action--doesn't see, don't tell and don't hear. From the concept of “Everybody does it”, every single people parties this, then I should do it also. It is normal to do these things in our life, like somehow, somewhere, we always see some people cheating or acting unethically. But most of the time, we will pretend have not seen it because of don't want to get trouble from the case. Why people using these excuses to avoid forget trouble in our life? Is that we all selfish, have we ever think of the people that will get hurt from the unethical participation?

That day, it was very early morning; I was sit inside the car for going school. I saw guy that snatching the woman's hand bag. Nearby was some shop, there aren't not people to stop it, but most of the people are in the car jam, who will actually help?

Helping the neighbors in the Malay Kampung are easily to see, but have you seen the people nowadays helping the neighbors in the condominium, or the residential area? I even don't know who is my condo neighbors, is a he or her, and is old or young. The interaction of the people are much lesser than old days, because of the technology, the people often communicate via technology. Even siblings, helping and gathering are not often. How about the community?

The unethical behavior is start from the lack of caring our community and families. The lesser caring about the community, the people will have the unethical behavior that they don't want to think of other feeling. If they think "if I do so, how the people react", "if the victim were I, what I were feel." These thought will prevent the people acting unethically, because they have try to stand in others people shoes to think about their feeling. Everyone doesn’t like to be cheated, but everyone does cheat to people. This theory applies to the unethical behavior also. In the business environment, if the unethical producer think before producing the unethical product such as the hair-soy-souse, the reused oil. These foods are for people to eat, the producer might also eat the same things into their stomach. If they have ever thought what and how if they are the victim, they may think twice to do the unethical business. 

the hardest decision that i have made is to choose what to eat for dinner!!!

We will forget what we want to choose, the best choice to us, or the right things to us? 

In our life, these choices are not easy to make decision because the ethical choices are lesser benefit for us and it is not easy to do it. The Coercion Myth: “I have no choice!” the situation only allowed to do this, BUT THERE IS ALWAYS BEING A BETTER CHOICE THAT YOU HAVE MADE!!! 

Consequentialism or “It Worked Out for the Best”, sometimes, the unethical behavior are excused as the best choice that we can made. BUT, IT IS REALLY THE ONLY AND ONE CHOICE WE CAN MAKE? I have seen some times in the hall, somebody asking the answer from the invigilator, but the invigilator actually answers his question because he has a nice face. I have seen someone bringing the note inside to the hall, and go toilet often. Why the invigilator not stopping the convocation? 

Actually, that time, someone rise up his hand and stop the conversation of the inveigler and the people. The Futility Illusion: “If I don’t do it, somebody else will.” Here comes another situation for us, if we don’t voice out the mistake, who will voice the mistake to the public? Many of us have this though that it is not my responsibility to find out the mistake and tell others. Hamm’s Excuse: “It wasn't my fault.” It is not my fault to not telling out the unethical behavior that acts by the people. 

The Perfection Diversion: “Nobody’s Perfect!” or “Everybody makes mistakes!” So we should keep quiet that let the unethical behavior continue and let them go with the wind? Of course every people make mistake. BUT THE MISTAKE CAN GO VERY BIG IF YOU NOT VOICE IT OUT!!! The Comparative Virtue Excuse: “There are worse things.” The unethical behaviors I have made are not cause damage of the people, so is that the unethical behavior is ethical then? 

The Tortoise’s Pass: “Better late than never”. We can voice the unethical behavior out after we get the bonus, or after retired. The tough of “better late than never” make a very serious mistake that help the unethical behavior go along, some people will assume that their unethical behavior that since ethical that no people said it is unethical.

Food safety

Food business is the businesses that have to depend on Conscience Industry of the seller. Because for they are selling the food, only the end product will be shown to the buyer, the buyer might not know what they have buy from the seller. The food producer in china, they reused the oil from the drainage. The citizens of the country are starting a petition to stop this action. “Sewage oil“, also known as “gutter oil” or “drainage oil”, is the leftover and discarded oil collected from the drains and gutters near restaurants that has been “refined” to be reused and resold as cheap cooking oil (chinaSMACK2009).The oil seller will pick the oil from trench to reproduce and sell it to the customer. Most of the china restaurant, no matter one star to five star, they are using drainage oil to cook, it's poison and unsanitary, because the trench oil are very cheap in price state by Derrick. Neither the five stars hotel to the food stall from the road side, they all can buy the reused oil from seller because the reused oil is very cheap. They want to reduce the cost by producing the food. Not only buying the reproduce oil, they also collect the used oil from hotel or the shops. The restaurant waste oil is usually produced in two ways: the used oil after frying many foods and the waste oil from the water after washing dishes and pots. Used oil and the floating oil fished up from the sewers are now all called drainage oil. Drainage oil must not be consumed by people. It can only be used as raw materials for producing chemical products. However there is profit in this, the trend is an above average restaurant can produce 100 kg of used oil in a month, each kg sells for over 1 Yuan, so the profit is 200-300 Yuan a month. Not only this, the people come to fish from the sewers also pay the restaurant; they pay 200-300 a month. Do not underestimate the sewers, every time they can pick up 10- 20 kg! Therefore, people are in competition for fishing the waste oil. These people must pay the restaurants and hotels money each month. After a deal is formed, hotel security guards only permit these people to fish out waste oil and deny all others ( Key, 2010). All the consumer will not know where the oil from and what kind of oil are the food seller are using, they will just concern about the food only. Many of the consumers will eat the food without knowing the actual process. Xie Lili, 25, runs an organic store on the internet. In the aftermath of the oil scare, she said she had seen “a huge increase” in demand for organic salts, oils and spices (the telegraph 2010). In my opinion, the business should act ethical because it have to consider about the people who eating the food that cooked by the reused oil. Because as a consumer, we have to choose the healthy food to feed ourselves, the business people have to stand in the consumer shoes to think if they will consume the drainage oil, how they will react after they knowing this serious problem. In china, some of the rich people they are making the money from the people from their home country, they are not helping the people that very poor, so that their country people are poor getting poor, the rich people getting rich. The rich people are not caring about other but just themselves. They should care about the poor people because the poor people is the human capital for moving forward the operation and also be the consumers for those products. Teach ethics to the children when they are small, the parent should educate the children since young age so that they can learn the parent attitude very easily because they are following their parent foot step to growth up. They parent should more consider the children before the children have the unethical or the behaviour like to finish the task without thinking others consideration. Such as cheating or steeling. The business that start from Governments have to take serious action for catching the people that selling the reused oil, and catch the buyers that buy this oil for cooking. The government can take very serious action for those collecting the drainage oil and the people who processing the reused oil. The health ministry department has to take a very serious management to control the safety of the food. The society has to be more concern about the process of producing the food. For solution, the manufacturer should let people who involve in the processing of the products to know more in details about the processing and the operating of the company. The company can also show the process of the factory to the consumer that their products are safety to be consumed. Besides that, they can take more care about the environment by not pouring the oil to the drain. For example, Japanese have taken the initiative to separate their rubbish before they throw away. Their government has established the rules and regulations that not allowing the people to pour the used oil into the drainage. That is why their place is clean and comfortable for human to stay. They did take the initiative as the first few countries to recycle the rubbish. However, they will not take the rubbish’s food to recycle again and produce other items or food for their people. Discarded Food Waste Slop Recycled Into Cheap Cooking Oil In-text: (chinaSMACK, 2009) Bibliography: chinaSMACK. 2009. Discarded Food Waste Slop Recycled Into Cheap Cooking Oil. [online] Available at: http://www.chinasmack.com/2009/pictures/recycled-slop-swill-cooking-oil.html [Accessed: 4 Sep 2013]. Derrick . 2010. Against to reused the trench oil for cooking! | Repetitionr.com. [online] Available at: http://www.repetitionr.com/repetitions/against-to-reused-the-trench-oil-for-cooking/3568ef96-8b60-11df-b83c-0030483394fa[Accessed: 3 Sep 2013]. Restaurant head chef talks about drainage oil in China In-text: (Restaurant head chef talks about drainage oil in China, 2013) Bibliography: Restaurant head chef talks about drainage oil in China. 2013. Key, [blog] March 18th, 2010, Available at: http://www.chinahush.com/2010/03/18/restaurant-head-chef-talks-about-drainage-oil-in-china/ [Accessed: 5 Sep 2013]. China goes organic after scandal of cooking oil from sewers In-text: (Moore, 2013) Bibliography: Moore, M. 2013. China goes organic after scandal of cooking oil from sewers. The Telegraph, [online] 9:00PM BST 30 Aug 2010. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7971983/China-goes-organic-after-scandal-of-cooking-oil-from-sewers.html [Accessed: 5 Sep 2013].