An anonymous reader writes: Read a Slashdot article re: ethics for programmers, and it made me think.... As a long-time project manager, I have seen all manner of tom-foolery; directors pillaging project budgets without sponsor authorization, managers and executives lying to customers about issues (that eventually tanked the project and our contract), PMI chapter presidents leveraging their power of position for self-enrichment, EPMO-executive-leaders looking the other way when asked to confront such problems.
But if you are a good soldier and keep quiet, you get to keep your job. So, my question to the PMI Ethics Committee is: "If a project manager follows the PMI Code of Ethics and is subsequently 'released' from their job, will PMI pay that project manager until he/she can find a new job?"
The answer is obviously "no, we won't." So, why does PMI continue to promulgate a strict code of ethics for PMP's, if code of ethics makes it nearly impossible to keep a job, in the real world?