My thoughts on personal integrity in the world today

A few days ago I was sat down at the river having a coffee and doing a little bit of people watching when I started thinking how little “personal integrity” seem to have these days. We are living in a world that seems to increasingly almost reward people for for cheating, or cutting corners or doing half a job whenever they can get away with it. And the more I think about it the more it makes me feel very sad at what todays society is allowing to happen.

The problem is, it’s not just simple things like driving through a no entry sign that people are doing. It’s far more serious things that ultimately end up costing venerable people their lives. I saw in the news yesterday (read here) how staff in a mental health unit had faked entries saying that they had seen this lady when in reality she had already taken actions that untimely ended up in her death. It seems that the person who should have checked on her felt it was too much trouble to do the job he was there to do. And it seems that that attitude was common across many of the members of staff at that unit and lets face, many other hospitals, care homes and mental health units across the UK.

People think they can get away with not doing their job so they don’t do their jobs.

We live in troubled times.