| THE 4-WAY TEST
1. IS IT THE TRUTH?
Media People
Reporting, writing, broadcast or telecast are true and based on facts and not based on rumors. Avoid sensationalism and reporting of half truths.
Businessmen
Do not sell adulterated products. Be sure that the features and benefits that you claim about your product are true.
Job Recruiters
Reveal the true compensation of the overseas workers your company sends out.
Government Supervisors
Give the true performance ratings of your subordinates. Not a rating that is influenced by ?lagay? and ?grease? money. Neither should it be a rating based on ?kumpadre? and ?kumadre? system.
Parents of Athletes
Give the true data about the age of your son or daughter participating in any sports competition where age limit is part of the rule for qualification.
2. IS IT FAIR TO ALL CONCERNED?
Court Judges
Make your decisions fair to all concerned regardless of their status in life.
Employers
Give your employees fair wages and a fair share of the benefits that they should enjoy to maintain a decent and respectable standard of living. Remit the SSS contribution expected from your company so that employees are able to enjoy SSS sickness, retirement and other benefits.
Jeepney and Taxi Drivers
Charge only the fair fare. Do not discriminate or select your passengers. Huwag mangharang.
Telephone, Electric, Water Services
Be fair to all the citizenry by providing these services to all and not just to the wealthy and influential. Huwag maghintay ng ?lagay.?
Labor Leaders
Ask for fair labor wage but consider the state of business rather than kill the said business and make more and more laborers and their families suffer.
3. WILL IT BUILD GOODWILL AND BETTER FRIENDSHIP?
Movie Writers, Political Columnists, and Newspaper Editors
Write articles, columns, and / or editorials that can build goodwill and better friendship among our movie stars and our political leaders who are always in the limelight and whose actions and lives greatly influence our people.
Professional and Amateur Sports Players
Follow the motto: ?And when the Great Scorer writes down after your name, He writes not win or loss but how you played the game.? Did you play, participate and get involved in sports in such a way that you contributed in building goodwill and better friendship among players and spectators?
Political Leaders
Your statements are always in the news, print, radio, and television. Be sure those statements can bring goodwill and better friendship.
Church Leaders, Priests, and Ministers
Your parishioners are your regular captive audience. Make sure your preachings, sermons, and official pronouncements build goodwill and better friendship among people of various religious and political persuasions.
4. WILL IT BE BENEFICIAL TO ALL CONCERNED?
Government Officials
In the decision on the construction of infrastructure projects, always consider that these are beneficial to all concerned and not just to those who voted.
Senators and Congressmen
Pass laws that will benefit the rich and the poor, the town, and barangay dwellers, the men and the women, the able and disabled, the employers and the employees, the Christians, the Muslims, and other religious and ethnic groups, the small businessmen as well as the big time investors, the importers as well as the exporters, the providers of capital and technology, the inventors and the manufacturers, the privileged and the underprivileged, and the literate as well as the illiterate, the farmers, the industrial workers.
Civic Clubs and Service Organizations
Undertake projects that will benefit a great majority of those who need help rather than projects that will bring bigger publicity for your organization.
Members of the Professional Groups
Render your services not only to those who can afford to pay high fees but also to those who cannot afford but who who need your legal, medical, and other professional services.
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