CASE STUDY The Sands of Time are Running Out Jenny is a student at a private college. She also works part-time at a clot
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CASE STUDY
The Sands of Time are Running Out
Jenny is a student at a private college. She also works part-timeat a clothing retail store to fund her studies.The retail store needs Jenny to promote sales in view of the HariRaya festival, thus Jenny has been working extra hours at her part-time job. Jenny, on the otherhand, needs the extra money from the job to pay for her upcoming semester’s tuition feesand to fix her car so that she can drive home for the long semester holidays. The pendingholidays also means the end of her current semester and, unfortunately, the start of finalexaminations. Jenny simply does not have the time to do both, i.e. study for all her finalexamination papers and work the additional hours that she needs.Jenny has to sacrifice something and decides to pretend being sickon the day of her Business Management final examination paper, so that she can take themake-up examination the follow week. This will give her more time to study.She also knows that it will not be hard to get a medicalcertificate (MC) from the busy college health clinic. Her friend, Dennis, works at the clinic and will beable to provide her with a sheet of the clinic’s letterhead stationery. “Even if I have to lie, it’s fair that I get extra time to study,”Jenny convinces herself, “because I have to work; I can’t study all the time like studentswho have their parents to pay for everything.”
Question:1. Jenny seems to see her lie as a simple case of manipulating anunfair system. Is there anything wrong with manipulating the system? Is Jenny’s strategyfair to the other students in her Business Management course?
The Sands of Time are Running Out
Jenny is a student at a private college. She also works part-timeat a clothing retail store to fund her studies.The retail store needs Jenny to promote sales in view of the HariRaya festival, thus Jenny has been working extra hours at her part-time job. Jenny, on the otherhand, needs the extra money from the job to pay for her upcoming semester’s tuition feesand to fix her car so that she can drive home for the long semester holidays. The pendingholidays also means the end of her current semester and, unfortunately, the start of finalexaminations. Jenny simply does not have the time to do both, i.e. study for all her finalexamination papers and work the additional hours that she needs.Jenny has to sacrifice something and decides to pretend being sickon the day of her Business Management final examination paper, so that she can take themake-up examination the follow week. This will give her more time to study.She also knows that it will not be hard to get a medicalcertificate (MC) from the busy college health clinic. Her friend, Dennis, works at the clinic and will beable to provide her with a sheet of the clinic’s letterhead stationery. “Even if I have to lie, it’s fair that I get extra time to study,”Jenny convinces herself, “because I have to work; I can’t study all the time like studentswho have their parents to pay for everything.”
Question:1. Jenny seems to see her lie as a simple case of manipulating anunfair system. Is there anything wrong with manipulating the system? Is Jenny’s strategyfair to the other students in her Business Management course?