This is a very recent posting about a fellow Rochester taxi driver from Marketplace Taxi who sent in a video recording of another Rochester taxi dispatcher making offensive remarks about the customers. You can read and watch the news here: http://www.whec.com/article/stories/s3774497.shtml
It has been popping up on social media, so I thought I could share an example of what may qualify as an act of whistle-blowing. Marketplace Taxi has a special partnership with the UofR; on our school's webpage, it endorses Marketplace Taxi as a safe and reliable way of transportation. In the video, the dispatcher is seen on a hidden camera making offensive and racist comments. The owner of the camera is also a taxi driver. She claims that the inappropriate behavior has been going on for five months. What she doesn't mention, or that the camera did not capture on screen, is if she has said or done anything to the offensive dispatcher in hopes to resolve it.
It seems nowadays it's too easy to expose immoral acts by simply turning on the camera. We see examples of this in viral videos of unwarranted police brutality, inappropriate customer service, and more. Do you think this woman should be classified as a whistle-blower? During the presentation on whistle-blowing, there were a couple of conditions to qualify as a whistle-blower, such as appealing internally within an organization about the problem before turning externally. However, like I said about contemporary exposure through fast, efficient cameras, would a regular Joe be considered a whistle-blower if he uploads a video of his employer making inappropriate comments towards something? What if after the video, the company goes through major reformations and overall good comes from it?
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