October 24 was my final day as a full-time employee. I'm now retired, gathering social security (that I paid in, thankyouverymuch) and benefiting from investments.
There are many aspects to retirement that are unexpected; I'll address them in upcoming posts. I'll start with Business Ethics 101.
One of the many small tasks that I now have time for is: Pruning my email by unsubscribing to mailing lists. I'm the kind of person who always clicks the "Subscribe me to your email list" box when signing up to get the sweet 10 percent discount (that I never use).
Had an interesting, and telling, thing happen today: I clicked the super-tiny-good-luck-finding-it unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email and opened the Unsubscribe page in my browser.
I was about to click the "OK" button when I noticed that the web page had two choices:
- Yes, I wish to unsubscribe
- No, I do not wish to unscribe
Here's the problem: The "No" option was the default selection. Had I not noticed, I would have continued to receive emails from this company.
Completely, utterly and 100 percent unethical.
Is this where we are as a society?
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