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Legal, but possibly *unethical* engineering and/or computer related jobs?

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Mike Gayner said:
Erm, how on earth is accountancy unethical? I'm an accountant and I spend my working day helping local small businesses and sole traders operate and arrange their finances.
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cuz the idea of money is general is unethical...

in a perfect society we wouldn't need to measure up to one another..and place the value of a man in his billfold.
 
It can be simpler than a lot of you are making it out, such as accepting any job with extremely unrealistic deadlines or other circumstances

i.e. you are asked to design a building in 1 month that would normally take 1 year. Even if you crunch on it, you know that you will have to cut corners somewhere

I think it's a lot harder to define unethical "jobs" than it is to handle it on a case by case basis
 
Businesses that use reverse engineering to figure out a competitors product, and then change a few things to avoid patent infringement.
 
Gibson486 said:
that is every product development company out there.
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Exactly. There are so few truly original ideas out there... just minor improvements of existing ones.

Anyone who doesn't believe that probably thinks that Apple actually "invented" the smart phone or the tablet. They didn't... they just made the first improved models that didn't suck for various reasons.
 
ultimatebob said:
Exactly. There are so few truly original ideas out there... just minor improvements of existing ones.

Anyone who doesn't believe that probably thinks that Apple actually "invented" the smart phone or the tablet. They didn't... they just made the first improved models that didn't suck for various reasons.
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😀

"The iPhone! Sucks 38% less than its predecessors!"
 
Holy carp! This thread is still going? What the fuh. Didn't see that coming. My paper pretty much made me look like a douchebag; I said that with enough money, I'd pretty much do anything that's legal.

In real life, not so much. I just needed to get a rant going to fill 4 pages of bullshit. 😛
 
You could map an argument for Pharmaceutical sales reps. Some only help but there is definitely a blurring of ethical/unethical going on there.
 
slugg said:
Holy carp! This thread is still going? What the fuh. Didn't see that coming. My paper pretty much made me look like a douchebag; I said that with enough money, I'd pretty much do anything that's legal.

In real life, not so much. I just needed to get a rant going to fill 4 pages of bullshit. 😛
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I'm glad that the "douchebaggyness" of many ATOT members has finally come in handy for something 🙂
 
slugg said:
Holy carp! This thread is still going? What the fuh. Didn't see that coming. My paper pretty much made me look like a douchebag; I said that with enough money, I'd pretty much do anything that's legal.

In real life, not so much. I just needed to get a rant going to fill 4 pages of bullshit. 😛
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what grade did you receive?
 
slugg said:
Holy carp! This thread is still going? What the fuh. Didn't see that coming. My paper pretty much made me look like a douchebag; I said that with enough money, I'd pretty much do anything that's legal.

In real life, not so much. I just needed to get a rant going to fill 4 pages of bullshit. 😛
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98th Rule of Acquisition.
Every man has his price.
 
Not really a engineering or computer, but my brother in law was the analyst that crunched the numbers for a large corp. on if it was cheaper to go forward with a given plan and pay settlement court fees on people who got sick vs. scrapping the plan and moving to a different course of action.

The company was a some sort of safety gear Company that sold stuff for airlines. Not sure what it was, but pretty much the product wouldn't save as many lives/limbs as they claimed, but so much was spent in marketing this product the conflict was to determine which was cheaper, paying to settle suits on the "expected" settlements when they got sued, or try to change their marketing strategy and perhaps the product. He left about 6 months later...
 
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