• stinerman@midwest.social
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      “Oh, you know what Bill’s doing? He’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market. He’s very smart.”

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      I worked in marketing. Though…

      • I create materials/tools to help patients with chronic diseases stay adherent to medication while building a better lifestyle
      • I made materials to convince health insurance companies to cover medications

      So, it’s not all bad. I moved on to hospital records analysis to identify things that would kill people, and now work in protocols and systems that help preserve the privacy of user data (one of them even uses ActivityPub).

      I’ve been pretty fortunate in the jobs I’ve been able to find.

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        “Look, I’ve worked with other vulture companies to convince them to get better PR by not being absolute soul-rotting evil all the time!” is not the flex you think it is, R.E. insurance compainies.

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      Same. Although mainly because I don’t have the cool maintain my cover while undermining the organization from within.

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          A) That’s not the question. The question said “regardless of pay.” So we can imagine you get paid $500m. It doesn’t have to be realistic. That’s the point of a hypothetical.

          B) If that’s the case, you need to work on your impulse control. In our hypothetical scenario, you would be sacrificing the political change you could create with your salary for the short term satisfaction of hurting someone else. It’s a bit of a trolley problem - but then, the point of trolly problems is to get us to grapple with our ethical assumptions.

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      As a Software Engineer my list is only slightly longer and has these additional companies:

      Oracle

      Microsoft

      Google

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      Don’t forget the fiscal, environmental, and resource destruction. Now if they only made cool camping/ outdoor gear…

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      assist or partake in the murdering

      Militaries outside of America do a LOT of non-murderous jobs. Sandbag the planet? Search and Recovery? Coordinating aid on the ground? When you’re a force that happens to be armed, it’s a different job. But they still need boots and belts and brass and buttons and berets and boomsticks.

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      Would you be willing to spread misinformation & propaganda to advance a good agenda for money?

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      Me ex-wife worked 100% in surgery. She used to laugh that she never had to talk to the fuckers. She was so clinical about it that she could tell me about a case and had no idea if it was a man or woman, black or white, nothing, just body parts.

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      My wife works in Accounts Receivable, and now manages a team who talks nicely to people about paying that debt over others, so their essential products arrive on time. She’s an absolute sweetie and I don’t know how she does it, but she’s excelled for a decade at it now.

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      travel to the US

      They round up 12 people a month from New Zealand. NEW ZEALAND! Anyone hating on the nicest country on the planet really has mental issues they need to get solved.

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    Sales. Especially telesales.

    I spent years doing sales because they were the only opportunities that I had available, and I hated every minute of it. Now that I’m finally out, I would NEVER go back.

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    Anything where you’re around the public all day. Rather wash dishes than be a waitress.

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      That’s the one thing i got from working food service: i so much prefer dealing with the stink and mess of dish room than having to deal with people …. Although tipping made the pay disparity pretty significant

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      I’d go back to waitering if I needed to – and if my feet weren’t so trashed from either combat boots or dress shoes already!