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Re:He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price by jackdaniel on Thursday December 07, 2023 @05:08AM (#38554767)
While I disagree with your opinion, I appreciate a lot that you've stated it. That's a very honest thing to say.
Re:He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price by automatic6131 on Thursday December 07, 2023 @05:10AM (#38554782)
>I appreciate a lot that you've stated it

Well, from an anonymous account, it means jack. Bull, even.

Re:He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price by jackdaniel on Thursday December 07, 2023 @05:15AM (#38554828)
People often lie not only to others, but also to themselves. Also I don't see a problem with somewhat controversial takes from anonymous accounts; given today's internet opposite would be brave/stupid.
Re:He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price by throwawaysleep on Thursday December 07, 2023 @05:18AM (#38554844)
Is it that you morally disagree (I agree that it is a poor reward for doing me a service) or you have a disagreement about why society punishes whistleblowers?
Re:He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price by jackdaniel on Thursday December 07, 2023 @05:27AM (#38554913)
I disagree with equating whistleblowering and snitching. We all have dirty secrets, but let's loosely say that the scale matters.

It is a different story when coworker tells "boss" who is lazying around, and a different story when someone reports a serious misconduct towards other people. I'm not sure how to phrase it clearly, but generally I would not associate myself with former people, but I wouldn't mind the latter. Maybe one day they'd prevent me from doing something really terrible (given I wouldn't know better).

Re:He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price by rsynnott on Thursday December 07, 2023 @05:26AM (#38554900)
Possibly a fundamentally different outlook? I would trust a whistleblower, but I would have difficulty trusting a person who would cover up serious crimes for an employer. Most employers, by the way, actually do not want it covered up when one of their departments is Doing Crime.

(In particular if you're in, say, finance, or a safety-critical industry, you are not going to want to hire someone who has a known track record of failing to report crimes. I mean, unless you're, like, FTX or someone.)