Working with banks and other financials, I’m exposed to the internal advertising these corporations use to promote ethics hotlines, etc.
From what I’ve seen firsthand, employees are already skeptical of “anonymous” tiplines. The news from Wells Fargo is only going to serve to reinforce the view that corporations are at best playing lip service, and at worst it’s a trap.
Looking at it from the other direction,there’s good money to be made operating outsourced “anonymous tip” services for corporations, and even with the best intentions, ultimately the paying customer hotline operators need to keep happy isn’t the Feds or the employee doing the whistleblowing, but the corporation that cuts the check each month.
So yeah, “anonymous”. Sure.
