How Harmful Are Co-Workers Really Work?

Tired, overworked, and ready to go home, she was faced with a split second decision many would have considered criminal. She saw a bill fall to the floor. As she took a quick glance around the restaurant, and straightened her wrinkled apron, she grabbed the $20 bill off of the cracked tile floor, and shoved it in her pocket. After clocking out and starting the engine in her run down honda accord, she started to bite her nails, which were already too short from worry. Knowing the newfound money should have gone in the tip jar for everyone to share, she pulled out of the dark, lonely parking lot and headed to the grocery store for formula and diapers, hoping there might be enough left over for a pack of Merit Ultra Lights. Imagine one night after work you’re cleaning up the restaurant and you happen to find money. What would you do? Do you keep it for yourself or put it in the tip jar for all the other employees to split among themselves? Would you consider how your co-workers would feel if you kept it or shared it? How would you feel if one your coworkers found money and didn’t place …show more content…
While it was only $20, for her it was one less thing to worry about in a sea of huge obstacles. What she did there was an example of Ethical Egoism. Ethical Egoism is defined as the normative ethical theory that says that actions are morally right just because they maximize self-interest. In this scenario her self-interest would be taking the money for something she needs. If she were to take the money for her own sake she is obviously just considering herself and her needs and no one else. Clearly when the woman decided to keep the money she validated this decision knowing as a mother, one’s children always come first. This reflects ethical egoism as she determined her own interests were morally right in the