Slightly more than a scant two years ago one of those lively "discussions" (75 replies) broke out over on ERE about the effectiveness of cold calling into companies. The original proposition asked for advice/thoughts from the group about the legality of calling into a company on behalf of a client to "poach" employees. The supplicant had been asked to stop calling by an alerted HR director and wondered if he was putting his firm into legal jeopardy. As you can imagine, the opinions waged and raged over a broad spectrum.

More than halfway through the responses this seemingly forgotten piece of logic is to be found: "Let's continue to have a free flow of ideas without violating basic rules of rhetoric and debate. Let's use facts, not nebulous notions about ethics -- which is a society's norms of right and wrong -- which constantly change and in debate, become demagogic."

Yesterday the following question was asked over on LinkedIn:"Which song lyrics would you take as a model for business ethics? In a nutshell what are the fundamental sayings within?"
Allow me to suggest that the words of Allen Shamblin and Steve Seskin might apply to both these subjects:
I’m a little boy with glasses
The one they call a geek
A little girl who never smiles
cuz I got braces on my teeth
And I know how it feels
to cry myself to sleep

I’m that kid on every playground
Who’s always chosen last
A single Teenage mother trying
to over come my past
You don’t have to be my friend
Is it to much to ask ?

Don’t laugh at me
Don’t call me names
Don’t get your pleasure from my pain
In God’s eyes we’re all the same
Some day we’ll have perfect wings
Don’t laugh at me

I’m the cripple on the corner
If that’s me on the street
I wouldn’t be out here begging if I had enough to eat
And don’t think I don’t notice that our eyes never meet

I lost my wife and little boy
Someone crossed that yellow line
The day we laid em in the ground is the day I lost my mind
Right now I’m down to holdin this little cardboard sign

So Don’t laugh at me
Don’t call me names
Don’t get your pleasure from my pain
In God’s eyes we’re all the same
Some day we’ll all have perfect wings
Don’t laugh at me

I’m Fat, I’m thin
I’m short, I’m tall
I’m deaf, I’m blind
Hey aren’t we all

Don’t laugh at me
Don’t call me names
Don’t get your pleasure from my pain
In God’s eyes we’re all the same
Some day we’ll all have perfect wings
Don’t laugh at me

Song Name: Don't Laugh at Me
Artist Name: Mark Willis
Songwriters: Allen Shamblin, Steve Seskin
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