{"id":366,"date":"2008-07-02T08:13:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T22:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2008-07-09T08:57:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T22:57:48","slug":"unethical-or-ignorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/07\/unethical-or-ignorant\/","title":{"rendered":"Unethical or ignorant?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is ignorance an excuse for giving the wrong advice? Or is it as unethical as someone deliberately misleading a client for their own gain?<\/p>\n

I have previously written about the integrity of businesses misleading clients<\/a>, but how different it is if the supplier gives bad advice from ignorance?<\/p>\n

If you are paying someone as an expert, you have a right to expect their information to be reliable and trustworthy. Let’s face it, if you had the information and knowledge yourself, you wouldn’t have asked them in the first place!<\/p>\n

Some supppliers will give advice based on out-of-date information (“it worked in 1995 so why should we change it?”), personal opinion (“I don’t like brown therefore it is a bad colour to use in every situation” reasoning) or no knowledge at all. And they mean absolutely no harm by it and probably think they are helping you.<\/p>\n

Personally, I don’t think that is professional or ethical – if you are charging people money for your knowledge, then you should have that knowledge to start with! And you should keep that knowledge up to date.<\/p>\n

Have you come across this sort of ignorance in busienss? Did you consider it unethical for them to charge for knowledge they didn’t actually\u00a0 have?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is ignorance an excuse for giving the wrong advice? Or is it as unethical as someone deliberately misleading a client for their own gain? I have previously written about the integrity of businesses misleading clients, but how different it is if the supplier gives bad advice from ignorance? If you are paying someone as an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,60],"tags":[86,424,420,417,421,423,390,422],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-info-tools","category-writing","tag-business","tag-client","tag-ethical","tag-expert","tag-ignorance","tag-integrity","tag-knowledge","tag-supplier"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t