If you work in a job with legal, ethical, or public policy implications;
and your job involves performing work to effectuate decisions made by people above you without your direct input;
start thinking NOW about what kinds of instructions you will refuse, and how you will refuse them.
and your job involves performing work to effectuate decisions made by people above you without your direct input;
start thinking NOW about what kinds of instructions you will refuse, and how you will refuse them.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
Stance is and always was I'd rather walk.
I have a family to feed, but fuck it, I can uber and code on the side.
I don't sympathise, but it's understandable.
Even so, it's getting increasingly difficult to convince myself that work involving democracy & a legislature is anything more than a farce anymore.
I've already made peace w/the fact I'll likely get arrested and incarcerated myself if
So be it.
I will die fighting the fascists rather than live under them.
What I’m saying is, think about where you, personally, can draw your line.
and it’s a lot easier to take action if you’ve already thought through all the consequences and externalities with time on your side
so, yeah. If you do it now, you won’t have to do it later.
- CIA field manual
And trust me: if there's one thing an IT person can do, it's quibble over shit until the last minute if they're not comfortable doing something
Remember that you own a share of every harm done that you contribute to, even if it's just doing what you're told so you don't lose your job.
However, souls are rarely sold in one transaction.
They are mortgaged in a series of small compromises and trade-offs.
You have to know at what point you’ll go no further…
I work in law, man, sometimes it leaks out
https://bsky.app/profile/miamimellymel.bsky.social/post/3lay4lb7r5s2b
I've walked away laughing at several bosses who've tried to instruct me to do something verbally but then balk when asked for a receipt
Loss of the hospital, those jobs and health services will kill many small towns.
Leopards.
Don't risk your job if to do so puts you in the soup line.
#TheResistance
#sabotage