Question: Would organizational integrity make a difference in your loyalty to a company? Why or why not?
Jefferson Parish in Louisiana
Gus Bouchard runs a shrimp boat out of Jefferson Parish in Louisiana. After the Deep Horizon oil well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, all shrimp fishing was banned until the well was capped and the surface oil collected. As his family's sole breadwinner, Gus went to work for BP, using his boat to deliver thousands of feet of oil-collecting booms to protect the marshlands and barrier islands from the oil. BP announced the creation of a compensation fund of at least $20 billion to help businesses and homeowners in the affected areas recover from the damage of the Deep Horizon disaster. However, Gus has just been notified that since he earned an income from BP as a contractor during disaster recovery, that amount will be deducted from any compensation he receives. Gus is extremely upset about this. When interviewed by a local newspaper journalist, he pointed out that "I could have stayed home and made just as much money! Instead, I put my boat to work and did what I could to help protect the Louisiana coastline and our fragile fishing grounds-it's not fair!"