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Could you work for a morally questionable company?

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I'm being recruited for a gig at a private college. Think university of Phoenix. It's not that one but it's kinda like it.

I'd work in enrollment, which is really a sales job but they don't call it that.

These colleges have a somewhat shady reputation, like Corinthian and ITT tech got shut down years ago.

But the offer is really good financially. So I'm tempted. It's not like other companies are beacons of morality either. I mean, the place I work now charges insane prices to people who are too lazy to shop around, so this college would be no different, right?

Or am I just rationalizing because I want the money?
 
Fedorgasm said:
I'm being recruited for a gig at a private college. Think university of Phoenix. It's not that one but it's kinda like it.

I'd work in enrollment, which is really a sales job but they don't call it that.

These colleges have a somewhat shady reputation, like Corinthian and ITT tech got shut down years ago.

But the offer is really good financially. So I'm tempted. It's not like other companies are beacons of morality either. I mean, the place I work now charges insane prices to people who are too lazy to shop around, so this college would be no different, right?

Or am I just rationalizing because I want the money?
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You gotta look out for number 1

 
Fedorgasm said:
I'm being recruited for a gig at a private college. Think university of Phoenix. It's not that one but it's kinda like it.

I'd work in enrollment, which is really a sales job but they don't call it that.

These colleges have a somewhat shady reputation, like Corinthian and ITT tech got shut down years ago.

But the offer is really good financially. So I'm tempted. It's not like other companies are beacons of morality either. I mean, the place I work now charges insane prices to people who are too lazy to shop around, so this college would be no different, right?

Or am I just rationalizing because I want the money?
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I would like to say no. But, I worked in adtech for over a decade. So...
 
It's all relative. You could work for a corporation that's openly evil or work at a mom and pop that doesn't actively destroy the planet but the owner probably tortures people in his basement.

Unless you live outside and eat dirt, you'll be contributing to someone or something's questionable activities.
 
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Nah, only if in some bizarre desperate circumstance. Otherwise, life is too short to sell your soul for money. I mean, most everyone does it to *some* extent, but going day in and day out to something that beats your conscience like a red headed step-child is no way to go through life.
 
It's all a spectrum I suppose. Most companies sell people shit that they don't need. I used to work in a company that sold flavored electrolyte drinks in plastic bottles. They tasted like shit. It's just more plastic garbage that will end up in the ocean. I thought it was stupid because people could just drink water with some sea salt and eat more bananas. In a sense it's all questionable but it's "normal" I suppose.
 
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Yes, i work for a tobacco company
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Oddly, I wouldn't view a tobacco company as really being morally questionable any more. I mean, at one point, they obfuscated the risks, and advertised in dubious ways, but that seems all in the past. Feels to me everybody that smokes now knows what they are getting into.
 
Most are
But guess helps i'm morally questionable myself

Real line to cross or not would be if you're involved in the actual morally questionable part of their activity, or you do something else there

And what morally questionable is to you

Like call center, debt collector, divorce lawyer etc are easy ones to point finger at

But even actual city department using local police not to clean streets from criminals but to put tickets on average Joe's car not parking perfectly (while paying agents with average Joe taxes) is morally questionable as you can get

Good question is wich Company is'nt morally questionable, because i worked in many many different places and tiny minority would pass clean ass test
 
I worked for Halliburton for a while. I was Fracking (which some would say is evil in itself) and so we'd be driving all around in big convoys of trucks and I'd always feel like this



Great company to work for though, I had to leave when oil and gas went into decline in Canada and the branch I was working for closed down
 
When you are new or young and dumb you probably aren't fully aware or you have rationalized it to yourself.

As you get older or more experienced you start to notice it plain as day and start to question what you are doing with your life and if it's for you. And that feeling gets worse as you age I think. Unless you are a callous cunt who likes rubbing money all over themselves.
 
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