Ask HN: Do you refuse to work for certain companies or industries?
I'm a Software Developer, and like many Software Developers I often get approached by recruiters on LinkedIn and over the phone about jobs. Today I was approached about a job with Rio Tinto, the miner who knowingly and deliberately blew up Juukan Gorge, the only inland site in Australia with evidence of continuous human occupation for over 46,000 years, including through the last Ice Age. (the importance of this site cannot be overstated - it would be comparable to a mining company knowingly and deliberately blowing up the Cosquer, Lascaux or Chauvet Caves in France, the ones with ~30 000 year old stone age paintings in them - imagine the outrage that would cause) You hardly need to be some kind of bleeding heart activist to not want to even consider working for an organization like that. Do you refuse to work for certain companies or industries? Why, or why not? I should mention I'm no saint myself! I work in the travel industry and ask myself to what degree I enable massive CO2 emissions for people's leisure, wasteful businesses having in person meetings that they probably don't need to etc etc. 4 comments on Hacker News.
I'm a Software Developer, and like many Software Developers I often get approached by recruiters on LinkedIn and over the phone about jobs. Today I was approached about a job with Rio Tinto, the miner who knowingly and deliberately blew up Juukan Gorge, the only inland site in Australia with evidence of continuous human occupation for over 46,000 years, including through the last Ice Age. (the importance of this site cannot be overstated - it would be comparable to a mining company knowingly and deliberately blowing up the Cosquer, Lascaux or Chauvet Caves in France, the ones with ~30 000 year old stone age paintings in them - imagine the outrage that would cause) You hardly need to be some kind of bleeding heart activist to not want to even consider working for an organization like that. Do you refuse to work for certain companies or industries? Why, or why not? I should mention I'm no saint myself! I work in the travel industry and ask myself to what degree I enable massive CO2 emissions for people's leisure, wasteful businesses having in person meetings that they probably don't need to etc etc.
I'm a Software Developer, and like many Software Developers I often get approached by recruiters on LinkedIn and over the phone about jobs. Today I was approached about a job with Rio Tinto, the miner who knowingly and deliberately blew up Juukan Gorge, the only inland site in Australia with evidence of continuous human occupation for over 46,000 years, including through the last Ice Age. (the importance of this site cannot be overstated - it would be comparable to a mining company knowingly and deliberately blowing up the Cosquer, Lascaux or Chauvet Caves in France, the ones with ~30 000 year old stone age paintings in them - imagine the outrage that would cause) You hardly need to be some kind of bleeding heart activist to not want to even consider working for an organization like that. Do you refuse to work for certain companies or industries? Why, or why not? I should mention I'm no saint myself! I work in the travel industry and ask myself to what degree I enable massive CO2 emissions for people's leisure, wasteful businesses having in person meetings that they probably don't need to etc etc. 4 comments on Hacker News.
I'm a Software Developer, and like many Software Developers I often get approached by recruiters on LinkedIn and over the phone about jobs. Today I was approached about a job with Rio Tinto, the miner who knowingly and deliberately blew up Juukan Gorge, the only inland site in Australia with evidence of continuous human occupation for over 46,000 years, including through the last Ice Age. (the importance of this site cannot be overstated - it would be comparable to a mining company knowingly and deliberately blowing up the Cosquer, Lascaux or Chauvet Caves in France, the ones with ~30 000 year old stone age paintings in them - imagine the outrage that would cause) You hardly need to be some kind of bleeding heart activist to not want to even consider working for an organization like that. Do you refuse to work for certain companies or industries? Why, or why not? I should mention I'm no saint myself! I work in the travel industry and ask myself to what degree I enable massive CO2 emissions for people's leisure, wasteful businesses having in person meetings that they probably don't need to etc etc.
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