Every company I've worked at has strict policies about external communications by employees. They have a public relations department for that. Shut up and code, or get the hell out.
I have left a job before because I had ethical issues on what was going on. Being a software developer isn't a rare job that you cannot find an other place to work that will pay the bills. And have a company policy good enough where you can sleep at night.
There have been other jobs which I have worked other employees left because they had ethical issues with the job, but they were for things I didn't feel bothered by, so I had stayed.
There are problems in the US Market around employment, such as how the corporate structure in general as forgotten to create a promotion path in the organization and tend to prefer to hire someone from the outside vs promoting someone on the inside (even if their HR documents say otherwise) So we no longer can start in the Mail Room and work up the CEO in 20 years. However this system isn't slave labor. As you can indeed quit your job, and if you are smart, you find a new job first then quit your job.
I have left a job before because I had ethical issues on what was going on. Being a software developer isn't a rare job that you cannot find an other place to work that will pay the bills. And have a company policy good enough where you can sleep at night.
I have tried to choose jobs that at least don't cause me problems sleeping at night, and if I can find ones that are morally better I'll go there. I'm guessing I might have a salary $10k higher right now if I was less picky, but, well, sleeping at night is important. Paying bills is also important.
To an extent, if you can't find at least a way to think neutrally about your employer then at least looking around quietly should be on your to do list. Of course if something about your particular job annoys y
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's
got to be a better way.
-- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
Nothing unusual here (Score:5, Insightful)
Every company I've worked at has strict policies about external communications by employees. They have a public relations department for that.
Shut up and code, or get the hell out.
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Yep, here in the good ole USA, you have the right to remain a slave.
Enjoy it while it still lasts.
You have the right to leave any time (Score:2, Insightful)
you have the right to remain a slave.
In what way is having a job at Amazon slavery?
If you want you can leave any time. Care to tell a real slave they should just leave if they don't like it?
If you don't perform well, you'll be let go and be able to find some other job - again let us contrast an actual slave, who would be beaten or killed.
So why devalue the word slave just because you are upset you cannot pretend to speak on behalf of Amazon just because you work there?
Re:You have the right to leave any time (Score:4, Insightful)
I have left a job before because I had ethical issues on what was going on. Being a software developer isn't a rare job that you cannot find an other place to work that will pay the bills. And have a company policy good enough where you can sleep at night.
There have been other jobs which I have worked other employees left because they had ethical issues with the job, but they were for things I didn't feel bothered by, so I had stayed.
There are problems in the US Market around employment, such as how the corporate structure in general as forgotten to create a promotion path in the organization and tend to prefer to hire someone from the outside vs promoting someone on the inside (even if their HR documents say otherwise) So we no longer can start in the Mail Room and work up the CEO in 20 years. However this system isn't slave labor. As you can indeed quit your job, and if you are smart, you find a new job first then quit your job.
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I have left a job before because I had ethical issues on what was going on. Being a software developer isn't a rare job that you cannot find an other place to work that will pay the bills. And have a company policy good enough where you can sleep at night.
I have tried to choose jobs that at least don't cause me problems sleeping at night, and if I can find ones that are morally better I'll go there. I'm guessing I might have a salary $10k higher right now if I was less picky, but, well, sleeping at night is important. Paying bills is also important.
To an extent, if you can't find at least a way to think neutrally about your employer then at least looking around quietly should be on your to do list. Of course if something about your particular job annoys y