Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ...
by eropple on Saturday September 14, 2019 @03:30PM
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> In those situations, your only option is to follow orders.
It is the only option for the morally compromised. The solution is to refuse to be so compromised--and we can do it in this industry.
That's not a "for thee but not for me" judgment; I've left a six-figure deal on the table because the client was scum. It requires some grit but is within (almost) all our grasp--and we would be in a better place as an industry (and as people) were this behavior the norm, not the exception.
Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ...
by anigbrowl on Saturday September 14, 2019 @04:13PM
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Of course I don't want people to have their families starve...but if you have a $150k job you're really very well off notwithstanding the financial obligations you may have taken on that would make it hard to quit. If it's really a problem, then start looking for ways to delay the project or leak the truth. It's important to protect your family, but also to be able to look them in the eye later on.
In my experience, it really is the managers who often are to blame for a lot of evil practices. To generalise, I'd say 80% of engineers are rarely evil, but 80% of managers are rarely not evil.