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Discussion on: Have you ever had to take an ethical stand while on the job as a developer?

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Edited

These are all different bosses by the way:

  • That time my boss wanted me to marry a random person to get a visa.
  • That time my boss asked me to DDoS a competitor.
  • That time my boss wouldn't consider female candidates because they could get pregnant.
  • That time my boss purposely emotionally rattle employees as a strategy to get them motivated.
  • That time my boss asked me to lie on government grant programs
  • That time my boss damaged multiple rental properties by refusing to follow clear, simple instructions by the landlord how to avoid water damaged and asking me to collude they were not a fault by providing false evidence.

In almost all cases I left the company unless the behaviour was corrected.
These were all tech startups.

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ogrotten

Sounds like you should charge into a different segment of programming. Something other than startups.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

You're right, and I have.