It always seemed to me that ethics is a ridicculously fashionable and equally redicculously useless and fake thing. Take these 'equality monitoring' forms you have to fill in while applying for any job - are they ethical? If the employer does not care about your gender, nationality and hair colour then why on Earth does he want to know how many people with a certain set of traits they have? Where is the guarantee there will be no discrimination on that, depenending on how 'diverse' the employer would like its workforce to be?.. If it makes sense to you, please, explain me this logic cause to me it seems a complete and absolute noncense, which everyone seems to follow and even somehow enforce by law.

But that was not what I was gonna write this post about. I was more wondering about some different dimension of ethics, which is probably not the very first one you'd think about. So my question is, is it ethical not to be loyal to the company you're working at? It is somehow implied that working in a company makes you automatically loyal to it. Which is surely logical as if you spend your days trying to achieve some results and "put your straw to the common anthill" you somehow start associating yourself with it. But what to do if you feel obliged to do your work well and try as hard as you can but have a clear feeling of disgust towards the company working style, towards people (very useful and effective) you sometimes deal with and even towards your own actions sometimes? If that is a cognitive dissonance (which, I guess, formally isn't), that is probably one of it's most unhappy forms: you feel guilty for not being loyal to the company you work for.

I am not sure whether this is my social type, the cultural difference between me and my colleagues or simply the way I am motivated, or (most probably) a combination of those, but it's definitely a riddle I have to solve for myself, so that internally I get at least a little closer to that "good girl!" feeling...

Any ideas? And yes, I know, there are lots of the loyalty-productivity studies but they somehow do not solve the problem on this personal level.