Would you ever defy your boss if he/she asked you to do something you didn't agree with?

Answer 1

Yes. I have done it before and would do it again if it was against everything I believed in morally. Unfortunately bosses always have the upper hand and despire following my boss' policies and procedures to the letter, and sending a lot of very sick children home from a nursery, I was sacked (as it was not in my authority-despite fact I was in charge as she had gone abroad for the week). Sometimes even the correct thing to do is wrong in the eyes of a "boss" who think they are never wrong, but as long as you say No for the right reasons you have nothing to be ashamed of. We are all answerable to ourselves in the end-not a boss.

Answer 2

Maybe, maybe not. If the matter was something as controversial as race, gender, religion, or family issues, I probably would defy. Anything as offending as a slur into any of the above would certainly make me want to quit. If it was an office politics, project problem, or related, I would keep quiet unless the issue got worse. Keep things clean is my policy.

Answer 3

specific, i could, and that i've got on many activities. As a soldier, i continuously disagreed with my Sergeants. As a instructor, i disagreed in lots of cases with meant supervisors. My maximum colourful conflict of words replaced into 3 years in the past, once I brazenly and publically argued with my college vice-correct over the college serving whale meat for college lunches. I didn`t get yet another settlement with that college, yet a minimum of i'd desire to be comfortable with opposing the eastern whale hunt.

Answer 4

I've done it twice - once I was asked to take political cartoons off my door; once I was told not to teach a book the next school year; once I was told to stop teaching a book after the class was already 2/3 through it. Each time, I explained why I was being "insubordinate," and with that whole English teacher/censorship/!st Amendment thing, there never was any HUGE development.

Answer 5

It would depend. If you are asked to do something which is against the law, then you have to kick up a fuss, as the consequences for you might be very serious. No job is worth going to prison for. But if it was something which was against one's own personal principles (I'm thinking, for example, of a Roman Catholic whose principles would not allow her to assist with vasectomies or abortions), then if the boss would not allow the person concerned to follow the dictates of his or her conscience, (s)he would have to be prepared to resign. We have had a spate of Muslims refusing to deal with pork products in supermarkets. With such principles they should not accept work in such an environment. http://www.buzz.mn/?q=node/898 Principles can be expensive things, and we sometimes pay a heavy price for them.

Answer 6

It depends on why I didn't agree with it, I guess. If my boss wanted me to commit a crime, for example, I wouldn't feel comfortable.

Answer 7

Sure! Do it all the time. At a certain level you're paid to think not just do as you're told. It's more risky to 'go it alone' but, with increased risk comes a greater reward.

Answer 8

As an accountant, if it were an ethical thing, then yes. A reputation is all I have. (And student-debts, but that's a different issue.)

If it were a personal issue, I would discuss it with them. Try to reach a compromise.

Answer 9

Depends on what it is. If it's within the work environment and proper (not unethical or illegal), no; he's entitled to have me do something, even if it's technically outside of my work description. If it was illegal, unethical, or dangerous, I would decline and give my reasons why.

Answer 10

More than defy I would explian why I do not feel confortable with the task.
Defying never gets anywhere.