Do you speak up or take action when power is misused?
Oh hell yeah! : | 23 (43.4%) | |
Maybe, if I was personally involved : | 13 (24.5%) | |
Not publicly but I would try to contact others higher up and let them know : | 5 (9.4%) | |
No I keep my head down and stay quiet even after : | 1 (1.9%) | |
depends on the circumstance... explain: | 11 (20.8%) | |
Total: | 53 |
I ran into a situation Friday which I am still currently involved in, and will hopefully be resolved by Wed afternoon, which includes a personal escort by a Federal Protection Service Agent, and the Manager of a Social Securities office, and a thorough investigation of the Security Guard employed at said office. Should be interesting to say the least this Wed morning. Anyways it all started when the guard began to abuse his power of authority by threatening parents in the office and after he was done with them, verbally turned on me personally despite the fact I (and my kids) had done nothing except for the fact that I was a parent with children in tow. What ensued was quite an interesting adventure which included several people from all walks of life to come to defend and stand up to the guard. A lot of other stuff went down which I wont bore you with (if you're really interested in the full story my blog is in my sig) but in the end the guard and I had our own mini stand off, and after a lot of researching and phonecalls the final sundown stand off happens Wed morning.
I'm not the kind of person to get involved in the more abstract atrocities that happen in life (too lazy, busy elsewhere with 3 kids now), but if I personally see something thats pointedly wrong I tend to have a (very) loud mouth about it. Especially when it involves authority figures taking advantage of the normal every day person.
So I thought Id poll. If you saw someone with power who is supposed to help others but abuses their power because they can, do you speak up? Do you wait until after the fact and try to find someone to complain to? Or do you stay quiet?
Edited, Mar 8th 2010 7:02pm by DSD