What's the most unethical thing you've experienced in your career?

Reported abuse in the medical field, mandated reporter, I didn't see it but heard about it. The person I heard it from was called into their management's office, not medical related, and read the riot act by their boss for telling on and getting involved in someone else's business.

The ombudsman I reported it to, and knew and trusted, went to his boss to report with the explicit knowledge that I was telling him I knew this to be true as far as I knew through the chain of people I heard it from but due to the work dynamic it was not to be told who it was that it came to before me, and that officially I was reporting it anonymously, just here's the chain so that when that family member refuses to say anything you know they said they're fearful their family member will be harmed in retaliation so ignore that if they say it is false.

It went up the chain and a few people in the high offices in the state called the workplace of the person I head it from and the person that was the family member.

All hell broke loose and the person telling me was retaliated against unofficially, shit work and nobody would talk to them, marked as a bad person to work with.

Complaints about this by me apparently got several people fired in the state from what I heard but it's all murky and you think they report this shit to the news? I half expect people were just reassigned.

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