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Re:Netflix Announces Its New ‘Unlimited’ Maternity and Pater... by eevilspock on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @09:36PM (#10007581)
Is it possible that in healthy environments where people are valued and value each other as people they are capable of behaving ethically and responsibly?
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Re:Netflix Announces Its New ‘Unlimited’ Maternity and Pater... by mikeash on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @09:39PM (#10007589)
What's unethical about taking them at their word that vacation is "unlimited"?
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Re:Netflix Announces Its New ‘Unlimited’ Maternity and Pater... by enraged_camel on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @03:33AM (#10008406)
Well, it conflicts for this thing called "work ethic", for one.
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Re:Netflix Announces Its New ‘Unlimited’ Maternity and Pater... by mikeash on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @10:51AM (#10010113)
According to my dictionary, work ethic is "the principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward." I think only a tiny minority of programmers would hold to that.
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