Trouble In TV Land
According to a study by Global Compliance (now there's a scary name), 30 Rock has more workplace ethical violations than any other show. Others ranking high include Grey's Anatomy, House and The Office.
Some examples:
[On House they had] Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) objecting to a colonoscopy by asking House (Hugh Laurie), "How would you like to have a 6-foot hose shoved into your small intestine?" He then makes a quip about the basketball players she dated in college.
On "The Office," Packer (David Koechner) calls Michael (Steve Carell) a "queen" while others are in the room (Diversity, Equal Opportunity and Respect in the Workplace), while "NCIS" features Ducky (David McCallum) and Gibbs (Mark Harmon) sharing a drink in the morgue and commenting that women aren't equal to men (Environmental, Health and Safety; Diversity, Equal Opportunity, and Respect in the Workplace).
And on "Glee," a principal violates Diversity, Equal Opportunity, and Respect in the Workplace by referring to wheelchair-bound Artie as a "cripple" in front of the glee club teacher.
This is just too easy, so I'll say nothing. Mostly I'm curious who initiated the study and what its purpose was. Getting publicity, I suppose.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:24 AM
1 Comments:
This is silly. However it does point out that TV shows routinely portray as funny, charming and acceptable behaviors that give HR bureaucrats and self-proclaimed educators the heebiejeebies. I always have appreciated this as a great example of living in a free society where we are free to be contradictory and to not listen to those who think they know whats best
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