Porno in the workplace

[Ticktock]

I think its reasonable to mention it if the business is one of the morally challenging ones.

e.g.

Porn
Vivisection
GM food
Alcohol
Gambling
Payday lending
Pawn
abortion
tax evasion
Telesales that target pensioners / the weak.

etc.

just purely to avoid wasting everyone's time.

I personally have no issue with porn that is made with consenting adults. Not sure I would want to actually work supplying it but friends did.

I might have an issue with aggressive payday lending, gambling and on demand abortions though.

Following a redundancy when permie I was out of work for a while and did turn down a role at a company in one of those industries. It didn't help that there was some clause that had been forwarded to me that said something along the lines of "employees must wholeheartedly agree with our values". Having researched what their values were, and some controversy over how they acted in developing countries I told my wife I was sorry, but there was no way I could work for them, even if we were short of money, and she fully supported me.

[d000hg]

If you need a window cleaner you don't expect to have to tell him in advance what type of business it is you do. You just hire a window cleaner.

I'm not hiring a window cleaner to be involved in my business. If you want to equate yourself to a cleaner be my guest but I sure don't view myself that way.

And anyway I was speaking pragmatically. If you work in an area people find controversial, you can expect some applicants won't want the gig once they find out - therefore it's in your own interest to weed them out early on rather than have someone turn up and then quit.

[VectraMan]

I'm not hiring a window cleaner to be involved in my business. If you want to equate yourself to a cleaner be my guest but I sure don't view myself that way.

I thought one of the benefits of contracting were that you didn't have to get involved in the business. If you're paid to change tapes, or monkey some code is it really any different to being a window cleaner? Nobody's asking you to embrace the core principals (or lack thereof) of the organisation.

When I worked for a client that created software for the police I know there was at least one person come for an interview and decide to turn it down on moral grounds. So you probably have a point. I still feel a little uneasy at the fact I helped the US military kill people in third world countries, but I was a permie then.

[d000hg]

I thought one of the benefits of contracting were that you didn't have to get involved in the business. If you're paid to change tapes, or monkey some code is it really any different to being a window cleaner?

If I'm directly working on the product, then yes.

[vetran]

I thought one of the benefits of contracting were that you didn't have to get involved in the business. If you're paid to change tapes, or monkey some code is it really any different to being a window cleaner? Nobody's asking you to embrace the core principals (or lack thereof) of the organisation.

When I worked for a client that created software for the police I know there was at least one person come for an interview and decide to turn it down on moral grounds. So you probably have a point. I still feel a little uneasy at the fact I helped the US military kill people in third world countries, but I was a permie then.

ah the I was only following orders gambit, how is that working for you?

[minestrone]

I declined some work that was in secured loans, they wanted me to SMS home owners that were declined pay day loans in the last year and hit them with offers of secured loans. Pretty much setting them up to lose their house.

[Gumbo Robot]

Well, a couple of days in and all I can say is that I'm not exactly comfortable being asked to look at eWank.com to get ideas for CSS styles but there you go.

I also have to browse these sites using my own mobile - gawd knows what the missus would say if she looked at my browsing history

Anyhow, It pays the bills and the market is really dead at the moment. Worryingly dead, in fact.

[stek]

Porno in the workplace

Do they run Windows for Wànkers and Orifice 4.2?

SExchange 2003 up the backend?

[SlipTheJab]

Well, a couple of days in and all I can say is that I'm not exactly comfortable being asked to look at eWank.com to get ideas for CSS styles but there you go.

I also have to browse these sites using my own mobile - gawd knows what the missus would say if she looked at my browsing history

Anyhow, It pays the bills and the market is really dead at the moment. Worryingly dead, in fact.

At least you have an excuse when the missus stumbles upon your internet history, it's work!

[MicrosoftBob]

Do they run Windows for Wànkers and Orifice 4.2?

SExchange 2003 up the backend?

If they're going to running something ancient surely it would be Back Orifice