Please be sure to join the exciting ethics conference on sept 13 that was just sent out with people I can tell as ethical as Mike Vale!
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/3m-will-pay-more-than-6-5-million-over-allegedly-funding-tourism-for-chinese-officials/ar-AA1fMFeO
Just in time for the ethics conference. Wonder if this will get any mention by our "ethical leaders".
Oh I am sure they will spin this to say they were ethical for reporting it.... nothing said about the actual act or those responsible though....
I guess upper management didn’t have to do all the compliance training around ethics and bribery!! This company is disgusting and William McKnight must be rolling over in his grave!
"At 3M our strong ethical culture to do business the right way gives us the confidence to grow our business anywhere in the world."
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A slow slide down into short cuts where we tell each other it is ok and necessary, an unhealthy desire to protect the company at all cost, and slip into what can only be described as corruption. At one time this was an ethical company. Sad.
What is happening to 3M? Lawsuits after lawsuits. This company is collapsing faster than you think. Sell your shares when it's still $100.
Like EVP, like company
Is this mandatory or can we skip this sham of an Ethics conference?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/3m-will-pay-more-than-6-5-million-over-allegedly-funding-tourism-for-chinese-officials/ar-AA1fMFeO
Just in time for the ethics conference. Wonder if this will get any mention by our "ethical leaders".
Regarding the foreign corrupt practices in China....was Mike Roman asked ahead of time & said it was ok?
That's the ethics bar I learned from the wee Tireman.
SEC Charges 3M with Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violations Relating to China Subsidiary
"Without admitting or denying the findings, 3M has agreed to cease and desist from committing or causing any future violations of these provisions."
If we stop violations now, we can still buy our annual ethics award? Right?
Winning. 3M's perfect ethics record still intact. 🏆 😁
3M (MMM) has agreed to pay more than $6.5 million to settle charges that it violated specific provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in connection with a China unit, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday.
The US regulator said that 3M did not admit or deny the charges but agreed to "cease and desist from committing or causing any future violations" of the Act and to pay "disgorgement plus prejudgment interest" totaling $4.6 million and a $2 million civil penalty.
The SEC said that from at least 2014 to 2017, 3M's Chinese subsidiary arranged for Chinese government officials affiliated with state-owned healthcare facilities to attend international conferences, events and facility visits, apparently as part of the Chinese unit's marketing initiatives.
The SEC said the arrangements were often "a pretext to provide the Chinese government officials with overseas travel, including tourism activities, to induce them to purchase 3M products."
3M did not immediately respond to a request for comment from MT Newswires.
How about all of the corruption running rampant in MSD due to sales leadership encouraging unethical behavior to generate sales due to the old ways and desperate times desperate measures. Sales leadership directing sales reps to “spend money to generate sales revenue”, sales reps under the direction of their managers and directors break the rules such as Stark laws and then manipulate sales expenses and wine and dine doctors and health care works in return for them to use our products rather than promote products ethically. The anything to make a bucks mentality. We now have to have constant ethics training and a handful of individuals were terminated. There are a lot more, but seems like 3M stopped doing anything about it since HCBG won’t be their problem soon enough. This is a disgusting place to work for, especially with all the sc-m that was brought in from the KCI acquisition further poisoning the 3M culture and destroying a business model that clearly was working for all these years.
‘Ethics is the CEO’s point of view’ by man who hired consultants from his son’s company.
To see 3M’s ethics on display, read the Bloomberg article from June 9, 2022 titled “3M’s ‘Forever Chemicals’ crisis has come to Europe.” This was under Mike Roman’s tenure. After reading that article I understood why Ivan Fong and Veena left. I have been at 3M for 38 years, and I have never been more ashamed to work here. If I work 2 more years, my pension goes up 25%. If I work 5 more years it goes up 50%. That is a lot of money to leave on the table. If they freeze the pension, I am out of here.
Thanks for article - 👁️ 👁️
“Selective funding of outside research to command the science and provide defensive barriers to litigation” 🤔
The article and 3M’s behavior surprises me. No company’s code of conduct would accept paying an external researcher to do their work who is also responsible or has influence on other independent PFC articles. Not the right thing to do. We are talking about the safety of the planet’s drinking water.
There appears to be 2 million dollars worth of payments to do 3M’s dirty work undercover. Trust and respect for this once great company is now gone. What has 3M become?
Do you trust the job elimination process? What about 3M’s ability or interest in protecting 3M worker health and safety? Do you trust HR and leadership with your career and job? It all starts and ends with trust. I now have a completely different view of our pending ethics day. 🤔
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/23/3m-lawsuit-pfcs-pollution/
Another exciting topic for the conference: “How to press your thumb on the scale to command the science”
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/23/3m-lawsuit-pfcs-pollution/
Literally sweat shopping plants to make people quit to save pennies on energy costs. Employees with heat exhaustion daily. Ethical af! Fk 3M.
Ethics, please stop using derogatory language. employees are losing their lives in machinery and still, employees told to run macinery that is dangerous, just be careful if you have to put your hand in there, now remember if we have a SVP visit, you don't do those things,we can't afford to stop the production run as the waste would go through the roof, so please be careful when you are cleaning the moving parts of machinery, double standards
Previous post that needs to be said again here
I propose that 3M respond to the latest South Carolina PFAS complaint solely with a copy of their 2023 “World’s Most Ethical Company Award” that they purchased from Ethisphere (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethisphere_Institute).
They removed an ethical leadership banner in our break room. I wonder why?
3M: Take the jab or we fire you!
Science: Ahh, with the jab, you can still get the COVID. Science shows that with the jab you can get COVID or give COVID. Fact.
3M: Doesn't matter. You take the jab, it's the right thing. You must do it. Or, you fired.
Supreme court decision: don't have to take the jab. Personal choice.
3M: Complete silence.
3M has no ethics, no integrity, no honesty. September 13 is a farce.
Cannot wait for the September 13 ethics' circus. Send in the clowns.
I hope they mention the mandatory experimental injections . I can't wait to see it on LinkedIn
Ethics and 3M. Is this the Twighlight Zone or Black Mirror?
Diversity and respectful workplace. Unless you are a woman or in finance.
Here is the Sept 13th program:
- HR professions do a special "Scared Straight" program
- “Unlocking the value of unwavering integrity” by Mike Vale
- Monish talks about 3M values, not cooking the books, and the importance of the 3M family. "We're in this together, I care!"
- HR closing thoughts and instructions that the meeting was on personal time and how to report it as vacation
I would like to point out that a 3M Expert was honest in a 3M PFOS trial. Can this shining example of honesty be covered in the Ethics Conference on Sept 13th?
FROM A PREVIOUS POST:
- . . there was a single primary manufacturer of PFOS in the US: 3M. PFOS—one of the worst PFAS—is banned globally under the Stockholm Convention, for good reason. It is rare that the entire globe agrees to ban something. Yet they did so for PFOS.
The fact that 3M was the only material PFOS manufacturer in the US is not speculation. It is an admission by 3M’s OWN EXPERT.
Actual deposition testimony from 3M’s expert on 7/24/20 which is a matter of public record (I can picture 3M counsel vomiting listening to their own expert give this testimony)…
Q. And based on what you know, sir, about the persistence of PFOS, the overwhelming majority of every molecule of PFOS that's ever been manufactured by 3M is still in existence, correct?
A. That's quite likely. I like your verbiage, the overwhelming majority, that's probably correct. I don't have any actual factual data on that, but that would be my supposition, based on what I know about PFOS.
Q. Yes, sir. So based on what we know about the manufacturing and based on what we know about its persistence, it's just a matter of mathematical probability, that if we find a molecule of PFOS in the environment, particularly here in the United States, more likely than not, 3M is the source; is that fair?
A. That's more likely than not. I know that there's a company in Italy that has manufactured PFOS. There might be other people who have, but I would say just on a proportional basis it's more likely than not.
Q. It's almost certainly true on a proportional basis, just again, from a mathematical perspective, it's most certainly true that if you find a molecule of PFOS in the environment, particularly here in the United States, it's from 3M, fair?
A. That's fair, and one can look at the branching profile of it and get a good idea of that as well.
Q. And I know you probably think I'm belaboring the point, but, in your view…the source, I guess, based on mathematical probability, if we find PFOS in human br---t milk, more likely than not it's from 3M, fair?
A. Yeah. Again, as I said, I'm not going to disagree with that premise, so that's fair.
Q. Okay. And, sir, you're aware that PFOS has been detected in arctic mammals?
A. Yes, I'm certainly aware of that…
Q. And it's famously discussed that you can find PFOS in polar bear blood, correct?
A. Right, that's correct.
Q. And I know you feel like I'm belaboring the point, but there's no question in your mind that the source of PFOS in the polar
bear is from 3M, right?
A. I -- again, it's certainly more likely than not, yes.
Q. Rivers and streams, you're aware that PFOS has been detected and reported in rivers and streams?
A. Yes. Yeah, I have awareness of that, mm-hmm.
Q. And you're aware that PFOS has been detected in ocean waters, both the Atlantic and the Pacific?
A. Yes.
Q. And you're aware that PFOS has been detected in drinking water in the United States and elsewhere, correct?
A. That's correct.
Q. And you're aware that PFOS has been detected in human blood?
A. I'm aware of that, yes.
Q. You're aware that PFOS has been detected in umbilical cord blood as well, correct?
A. That's correct.
Q. It has been detected in shellfish?
A. Yes, there's a question there, yes.
Q. Has it been detected in fish?
A. Yes.
Q. It's been detected in indoor house
A. Yes.
Q. And daycare dust, right?
A. Yes, based on the paper by…, yes.
Q. And I apologize, I'm just going to make this little movie clip, and we'll move on. Has it been detected in outdoor air?
A. Yes.
Q. It's been detected in human br---t milk as well, correct, sir?
A. That's correct.
Q. And last but not least, it's been detected in polar bear blood, right?
A. As well as other arctic mammals, yes, mm-hmm.
Q. Yes, sir. And each and every one of these media all around the world…the source of PFOS is more likely than not 3M, correct?
A: …Yes, I mean, I -- other than the fact that there might be some manufacturing, I think that more likely than not, the source is 3M, yes.
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Ethics and 3M?
Please. 3M polluted the world over the last 80 years, knew there was a problem, and kept on doing it. In 1975, a well known University contacted 3M to find out if forever chemicals were in our Scothguard (it was showing up in people). There are two 3M memos that basically recaps the 3M secret was not revealed in the call from the university. Thus, keep selling even though we knew. Zero honesty and ethics.
Harvard MBA school top 10 book : The 1 Step simplified program for growing a business using a single tactic of layoffs by Monish Patolawala
The people who make us take time away from developing new products and helping our customers understand why we’re shipping them at 65% to listen to this BS and take tests are the ones getting in trouble for being unethical.
Another option could be "How to layoff thousands of hardworking worker bees while making millions of $$$ while there is no accountability for our own actions"
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Pick and choose your own favorite 3M executive. We are probably spoiled for the number of choices here!
“How to ethically outsource love making on a shoe string budget” written by Mike Vale
Why isn’t PG on any of the panels? I would love to understand the firewalls
"How Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO's) space mission to the moon and it's success empowered me to be scientist and change the world for the better"....by our own Chief Science Office and profilic author of *colorful word salad....making no sense at all....I have all the time in the world since I don't have to do much in the lab anyways * LinkedIn articles.....our very own , the one and only
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“Unlocking the value of unwavering integrity” by Mike Vale