These people are really brave.
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2025
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I just find this odd. They're working for a large corporation and demanding that it should have some moral standards? Are they not self aware? Corporations exist to make money without consideration for pesky things like ethics. That's like working at a steak restaurant and then suddenly making a big fuss about how killing animals is bad.
Someone else said it and I'm stealing it: these people are brave AF. They're going to be struggling to find work for the rest of their lives.
I'm sceptical because a lot of companies (and Microsoft) rely on Linux particularly for servers. Also, there are a few companies out there (not Google though) that must surely have some sanity, and even some respect for people who speak their voice in the workplace. Might not be as well paid but you say jobs.
... Might not be as well paid but you say jobs.
this is the key.
avoiding genocide enablers and fascists is going to keep you out of high paying social circles that microsoft is a big part of. doing so required me to take a 66% pay cut and others will have to do something similar if they want to hold onto their values.
At least they will live knowing that they did the right thing in the eyes of evil. I doubt they will remain without work tho, MSFT in their CV will still weight a lot, and as the world is becoming more and more antizio, they will eventually find a good place among non assholes and nazi collaborators.
antizio
i never heard this and i'm stealing it now. lol
antizionism is having a moment right now because the ruling class accidentally left a gap open with tiktok and the rest of social media; they's since then plugged that gap by forcing tiktok to sell and forcing reddit/facebook/etc. to hire idf moderation so i suspect that our antizionism moment is going to pass.
Besides the megacorps not many companies will remember this in the future.
i suspect that i was on a blacklist for using an employment lawyer against my faang company in the past since i had to move to the other side of the country to get potential employers to even respond to my applications.
this was years before radio silence became a de facto standard like it is now.