Timeline for How to discuss potentially dropping a Client I (and others) have a moral objection to
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| Jan 5, 2022 at 23:21 | comment | added | Jared Smith | @Ertai87 yeah, I'm just saying it depends. But yeah, I'm okay with doing some things at work I wouldn't otherwise do, that's part of what they pay me for | |
| Jan 5, 2022 at 23:18 | comment | added | Ertai87 | @JaredSmith That depends on the particulars of OP's objection to this task. With Pornhub, I can easily understand why you don't want to work there; you named the company, their role and product is well-known and understood to be controversial. But OP has given no details about the client nor about the objections to the client (nor am I encouraging them too, they're free to withhold that information and doing so is probably a good idea). Without knowing that information however, it's hard to categorize their objection. | |
| Jan 5, 2022 at 22:44 | comment | added | Jared Smith | I think it really depends on the industry. I'm in software and while I'm sure pornhub has very interesting scale, networking, storage, throughput, etc problems to work on, and I'm pretty sure given the particulars of their business they're quite profitable and probably pay their devs a premium, I'm even more sure I will not be working on them there. I don't think employers are going to look askance at me for that (no offense to people who work at pornhub, just ain't my cup 'o tea). | |
| Jan 5, 2022 at 16:29 | comment | added | Ertai87 | @Marandil That assumes your company is extremely high-demand to the point where you have to ration workload, which is an assumption I'm not making (I state my assumptions and I didn't state that one). | |
| Jan 5, 2022 at 14:09 | comment | added | Marandil | "Until you get to megacorp size, you don't just get to pick and choose your clients if you want to maximize profits, and you don't get to be a successful company if you don't maximize profits." I want to disagree - it's much easier to pick and choose your clients as a small corp, especially if you don't have the capacity to serve all of them. | |
| Jan 4, 2022 at 22:16 | history | answered | Ertai87 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |