Professor Elam

Monday April 17, 2017

Today Monday's WSJ has a quite a few ethically oriented articles, and all are examples of bad behavior. So let's

get started.

This article contains details on how it was that UAL called on the Chicago Airport Police

to forcibly remove passenger Dao from a flight. It seems airlines are obsessed with rules and so UAL has a rule based culture.

In class Saturday I observed that Wells Fargo's Stumpf lasted five weeks after revelations about improper accounting to meet goals.

I wondered if CEO Munoz would last that long. Already social media is calling for his ouster, gee that was quick.

The Dao family has hired media savvy Tom Demetrio to sue UAL and the City of Chicago.

He has already been airing press conferences.  He previously won millions of dollars for victims of the UAL Iowa crash in 1989.

Here was have a complete failure to reflect on the consequences of a foolish action. As mentioned in a previous post,

the negative mood against airlines was already there, this just brought it to the surface.