Is it ok to overlook the "little things" people do that are wrong?
I'm lucky enough to work for a company that subsidizes its employees' use of public transportation; we get commuter checks we can use to pay for bus or train tickets. You're not really required to prove what you're using the checks for, or even that you're using public transportation. In my office, I know a couple of co-workers who don't use public transportation at all, but still collect the checks and give them away or sell them. Then there's the co-worker who uses their mother's handicapped placard everyday to avoid paying for parking downtown. And the one who helps themself to coffee from the community pot but never pays for it. It bothers me, but I don't feel like I can a) call them on it, or b) snitch on them. People seem to be cheating at everything, from handicapped placards to welfare fraud, and it seems like there's no right or wrong anymore, only wrong if you get caught. Why do we let people get away with doing things we know are wrong? We all pay for it in the end.
