Ask HN: Should I do industrial espionage? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Should I do industrial espionage?

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Post by AnimalMuppet » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 12:01 AM UTC

jahitr wrote: post #9

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #3

You're going to bug your workplace? Are you trying to get fired? Why not just quit?

Yes. No, I'm trying to get intel on my bosses, and in the company future course of action. I don't like to quit things.

If you get caught, you're fired. You also are unemployable, and for good reason.

And that good reason should tell you, don't do it. Instead, knock off the Machiavellian spy games, and try to change whatever inside you makes you think this is even a remotely acceptable course of action.

Even if you wind up losing this job, don't do it. There are other jobs. But what you're proposing is a career-destroying move.

Re: Ask HN: Should I do industrial espionage?

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Post by AnimalMuppet » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 2:02 AM UTC

jahitr wrote: post #7

rtl49 wrote: post #2

While this is indeed the most rational and emotionally intelligent course of action in the wake of your recent professional disappointment, have you accounted for the possibility that you're too stupid to pull it off?

Yes. I always compare the size of the challenge with my own capabilities. This is one of the methods that lead me to take action or not.

Um, I'm pretty sure that rtl49 was being sarcastic when saying, "While this is indeed the most rational and emotionally intelligent course of action in the wake of your recent professional disappointment..."

That is: It is most emphatically not either a rational nor an emotionally intelligent course of action.

Re: Ask HN: Should I do industrial espionage?

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Post by jahitr » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 4:45 PM UTC

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #12

jahitr wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. I always compare the size of the challenge with my own capabilities. This is one of the methods that lead me to take action or not.

Um, I'm pretty sure that rtl49 was being sarcastic when saying, "While this is indeed the most rational and emotionally intelligent course of action in the wake of your recent professional disappointment..." That is: It is most emphatically not either a rational nor an emotionally intelligent course of action.

Then. the rest of the setence, doesn't makes much sense to me.