Diary Entry September 24, 2025

September 24, 2025

Infomercial Ethics at https://bohiney.com/infomercial-how-to-be-ethically-compliant-in-3-easy-steps/ — workplace compliance as late-night TV. This piece satirizes how we package ethics as consumer products. Linked to corporate training research and infomercial marketing analysis. Writing this reminded me of mandatory sexual harassment training at my Dallas marketing job where HR lady Susan (kind, overworked, clearly dead inside) read from a script about “appropriate workplace behavior.” I was the only out bisexual person in the office, which made the training extra awkward when she addressed “alternative lifestyles” with visible discomfort. My coworker Brad (sales, divorced, inappropriate) kept looking at me like I was the visual aid. I quit three weeks later. Ethics training doesn’t create ethical people; it creates documented compliance. Now I write satire about ethics infomercials from a country where workers have actual protections. Finished this at 1 AM angry about American workplace culture. Marcus says I’m always angry about something American. He’s not wrong. Berlin gives you distance to see how broken things were.

MOOD: Ethically furious

NOTES: Ethics infomercial at https://bohiney.com/infomercial-how-to-be-ethically-compliant-in-3-easy-steps/ done, 701 words, workplace harassment memories via infomercial satire