Jerry, Great explanation of what happened at Princeton and what happened to the Honor Code. As far as consumers go with the self check out, we are starting to see the repercussions, as some stores are starting to close SS lanes or add watchers. Both are probably needed. In my business experience, the managers check expense accounts with the eye of maintaining budgets. In reality they (me) always looked for somehting that should not be there or covered for something else. International business expense reports are much trickier. When you found something, then it is a carefull walk to find the reality of the situation.
Eric, you named a fourth meaning the essay didn't pin. The line about looking for "something that should not be there or covered for something else" describes a watched process where the watching gets called something else. The handbook still says trust. The operational reality is review. Both running at once. I'm not sure how many people never see the seam.
Self-checkout fits the same shape. The "we trust you" lane comes back as the "lane with a watcher" without the company ever announcing a policy change.
The walk after the flag is its own piece. Detection is cheap. Adjudication is where the cost lives. That cost is part of why most honor systems never formally retire even after they have stopped working. Someone still has to decide what each flag actually means before the institution can act on it. That work doesn't fit on a sign in the breakroom.
Jerry, Great explanation of what happened at Princeton and what happened to the Honor Code. As far as consumers go with the self check out, we are starting to see the repercussions, as some stores are starting to close SS lanes or add watchers. Both are probably needed. In my business experience, the managers check expense accounts with the eye of maintaining budgets. In reality they (me) always looked for somehting that should not be there or covered for something else. International business expense reports are much trickier. When you found something, then it is a carefull walk to find the reality of the situation.
Eric, you named a fourth meaning the essay didn't pin. The line about looking for "something that should not be there or covered for something else" describes a watched process where the watching gets called something else. The handbook still says trust. The operational reality is review. Both running at once. I'm not sure how many people never see the seam.
Self-checkout fits the same shape. The "we trust you" lane comes back as the "lane with a watcher" without the company ever announcing a policy change.
The walk after the flag is its own piece. Detection is cheap. Adjudication is where the cost lives. That cost is part of why most honor systems never formally retire even after they have stopped working. Someone still has to decide what each flag actually means before the institution can act on it. That work doesn't fit on a sign in the breakroom.