Would you work for a corporation that you oppose ideologically, if the pay is good?

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• HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No

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• Encryption@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Definitely not.

  I think money can and will never play down the feeling of working for something/someone that is against your principles and ideology. Every day you get up to work, while drinking your morning coffee you will have thoughts and hate about the place you will start working after commuting.

  And do not forget, you will mostly have friends with similar ideology, they will disapprove of this too. Good friends will stay nonetheless but discussions will arise portably more often than you’d like about your choosing a workplace that is against all you believe in.

  When you just go and work wherever because the pay is good, then your ideology is not more than a façade you hold up for yourself.

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• FuzzyGrumblebee@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Absolutely not. I have had recruiters contact me about “defense” (read: murder and imperialism) companies and flat out refused to even consider the jobs.

  I hold the position that if I knowingly helped design a system that delivered a bomb which, for example, blew up someone’s wedding party, I would have to pay the murdered people’s families reparations out of what money I do have, and kill myself to atone for abetting that atrocity. Defense contractors are disgusting, I don’t know how they can delude themselves into doing their evil jobs and keep living with thr shame.

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• Kinglink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Depends but pretty much sure.

  I’d rather take a lot of money from someone I hate so I can donate it to stuff I like than a little money from people already doing what I want.

  Obviously good pay is subjective but at the end of they day you need to eat and pay for housing. Not everyone is going to ideologically match with their company.

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• ParsnipWitch@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No. I actually did quit a job in the past when I realised they are buying email lists to send around “newsletters”.

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• Steve@compuverse.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That all depends on the specifics of “good pay”. I guarantee there is some amount of money that I’ll accept to do practicaly any job. That may he far Kore than “good” though.

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• Magister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It depends, big oil yeah I guess, but for instance a company that make face recognition camera used in China to basically arrest people, no. As for instance I’d never work for a far-right pro-life company.

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• DigitalFrank@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes. I don’t care about anyone else’s ideology. I work, and in return, you pay me. Seems simple enough.

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All Googlers say yes.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I worked in accounting. I’ve done it.

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• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Depends on how far off we were.

  I’m against big oil but currently we need oil to function.

  I won’t work for Amazon because I don’t like their core values.

  There are other companies where their core values just don’t align with mine. I won’t work for them.

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  • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Currently working in oil and gas again after trying really hard to get away from that after working in a related industry for the last 10 years. I have mixed feelings about it, but my commute went from 75 miles/day to 3, I get to spend 3+ more hours a day with my family, and I am paid more. The benifits for me, monetarily, my personal environmental impact, and on my mental/family health are worth the compromise of how my work impacts the world. At the end of the day, my chair would be filled with someone else if it wasn’t me. I am happy that because it is me, I am limiting my envionmental impact even if I don’t agree with the industry.

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I love electric cars but let’s be honest. We are still an oil based economy.

      I don’t oil companies are “evil”. Well I opposed to fracking because of the toxic mess they create but otherwise they’re no more evil than many other companies

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• andrewta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At my age? Yeah I would.

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• Adalast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m actually about to face this question down and I am dreading it. I love the job I have now, but the pay isn’t there and it isn’t going to be, so I have to leave. I have been WFH for 7 years now and have been following the trends in the workplace and I am so terrified of how toxic the landscape has become. Especially in any part of the VFX industry which I am trained to be in, so I am having to look wide and hope I can spin my skills and Applied Math degree into something meaningful to a company that will pay me what I’m worth.

  Maybe a little off-topic, but I guess I just needed to get it off my chest.

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• Iheardyoubutsowhat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I currently do, and I subvert them every chance I get.

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes, but I wouldn’t be very good. Just good enough to keep the job.

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• Ddhuud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Would? Yes, I do.

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• fugepe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes. Refused to work for apple as a soft. Eng. They were offering around 50k more. Ill never buy apple products either even if they come with infinite battery.

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• lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m lucky enough to be able to have a lot of choice where I work - in a software engineer and there are any number of places where I could work and be paid well. Given that I feel some responsibility to work somewhere ethical - not everyone else has the opportunity to decide.

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• Badass_panda@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Earlier in my career I probably would have. These days I’m an executive… I have a lot more of a choice about where I work, and a big part of my job is representing the corporation and motivating a lot of folks to work hard together to get its mission accomplished.

  I don’t think I could do that for a company that I thought was harmful or immoral, and I know I wouldn’t want to.

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• PsychedSy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t oppose the corporation, but I dislike some of the things we make. If they ask me to work on something I object to then I’ll worry about it then.

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• lol@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m studying to be a doctor specifically to avoid working for hugely unethical corporations. Even if I end up in the private sector (public healthcare is mostly free here), it’ll be easier to justify saving lives vs. working for a defense contractor.

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know someone who works in big pharma. And just by saying those two words I know I’ve conjured a thousand images of overcharging for insulin and pushing opioids on people. But that really is just an internet distortion. I guarantee you this person I know sleeps very well at night having met people who are only alive because of their company’s product.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I guess it depends on how desperate I am. Currently if I was job shopping, absolutely not. I have an okay job that I can keep until I find one with a company that doesn’t offend my sensibilities.

  But if I’m desperate for a job? I have to help feed my family. They have to come first.

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• ZosoRocks3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Should watch The Devil’s Advocate. Or The Firm.

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• LeateWonceslace@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No. I have gotten 2 offers to work for the NSA and turned them down hard. If I could stomach it, I could have a job working as an actuarial scientist for an insurance company.

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• PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Depends. I won’t work for Raytheon regardless of how much they pay. Meta though? Maybe…

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• Widowmaker_Best_Girl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Absolutely.

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• JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No. Don’t need them.

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• elscallr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, probably.

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