Whistleblowing 10 things to Think again about or walk away

Whistleblowing think again; about what happens if you do it and think about if you walk away.

Whistleblowing – If you tell the board or the management, that what they are doing is wrong? How do you think this will impact your situation and how do you believe you will be able to survey in the company or the industry. This is not to scare you off but it is to tell you that being a Whistleblower has consequences for yourself, your career, your family, and over all your life.

Since you are not the one doing anything wrong, you need to think carefully about how to address what you are about to do without dreaming away that things will turn out well.

Depending on the insight, depending on the level of your Whistleblowing take your time to think it through, and do not do anything until you have your mind clear, peaceful, and know all aspects of what you are about to do.

Here are a few good questions to start answering:

• What is done wrong?
• Do you know how to make different processes and procedures?
• Why the need to tell it?
• Who will benefit from the improvement that you aim for?
• What is in it for yourself?
• What is the worst thing that can happen to you?

I speak out of the experience, like a fool, as a naive fool I would say, who believes people want to do the right thing and have the focus on what they do. No, management had the focus on how it was done – my boss kept telling me – I want you to engage well with the management group no matter what.

Problem number one in Whistleblowing

The next topic is that very few knew, what to do the right way, what was needed to follow the law and legislation. How to do minimum with maximum outcome was what they were looking for, so fake a little, cheat a little and by the cheapest, you can.

My approach was that I just keep trying – on and on – never gave up. I did not think or was not aware, that I was in the middle of Whistleblowing. I know today how bad it was and is.

Problem number two in Whistle blowing.

Why get more problems into your own life. Helping and telling will not support your life at all and still, we do it. We have an urge, to tell the truth. Think about the TOUR DE FRANCE! how big was the doping case and how many years did it go back and everyone had to tell their side of the story.

Why do we need to tell what we know?

Humans are strange, we fake it to get it, we cheat to get it and we are cheap in the way we are, but most people do not feel good about it when we fake it, cheat it, and are cheap about it. Somehow it lives within and at one point and time, we need to tell. We need to get it off our chest.

With Whistleblowing it is different.

It is businesses and corporations and each individual may not have the full overview of what is really going on and taking place. The people who dare to tell, and support, and help the business get it right actually give us the chance to think again and do better.

Pharma transperancy.

In the pharmaceutical industry, you have processes and procedures to support transparency across the business. It is the way to link the supply chain together, and when we think about it, does it work? From my own experience, I can tell that I have lost faith in what they say and what they do. Integrity does not match their performance and it is very difficult to catch them. Money makes them get ahead and rules make them fake it or cheat it, but because it is so difficult it is also difficult to whistleblow on them.

Thrid Problem with Wistleblowing.

What is in it for you? is it a good way of taking care of yourself and your life. Why not just walk away?

Today I would walk away. If I see something I walk away, I choose myself, and I choose not to bring the problems into my life. I did not do anything wrong and I do not want to be around people like that. I choose me.

Why would you be honest in fake world.

To be honest in a fake world, are you stupid? is that not what you are thinking. It is what I am thinking.