The Right Thing.

I drive on one side of the road and you drive on the other.

We take for granted the mutual understandings and cooperation and rules allowing our society to function cohesively.

Each day we enter into thousands of unwritten and unenforceable contracts with loved ones and strangers.

If someone swerves onto my side and we collide - there are avenues of redress and restoration for my loss.

But what happens when the boss doesn’t follow the rules?

Not enough to trigger avenues of industrial redress but sufficiently damaging to put a ding or scratch in my wellbeing.

What happens when an organisation doesn’t behave as promised?

It’s not until this happens that we realise with some shock and disorientation - there is very little we can do about it.

Too petty and burdensome and even risky to engage the machinery of any legal process, assuming one exists.

But significant enough to dent our trust and sense of how the world operates.

Our lives and society depend - to a degree we rarely appreciate - on other people doing the right thing