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Perfect, unless they're threatening to prosecute you as well if you don't cooperate. Otherwise, explain the situation to the prosecutor and detective and ask to be subpoenaed. They'd likely be happy to comply.
There's no prosecutor. It's a civil suit.
I'm going to answer from my own experience, which may or may not fit your situation at all (you're kind of vague about it, so there's no way to judge). This is also in part inspired by the comment of humanarity ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9360218 ) Several years ago in The Netherlands we had a website blockade of The PirateBay. Most ISPs had to block it, it was stupid, and it did not work at all. The ISPs…
You don't need career advice, you need to degauss your moral compass.
I really respect you, but that's spoken by a person relatively unlikely to need to convince someone else to hire him again.
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Since when is having a moral compass a platitude?
It's like the generic advise that everyone already knows. "be yourself!" isn't super helpful when he/she is asking specifically about career impact.
There was a time when I didn't know how useful "being yourself" was. I don't believe I'm the only one. For instance, people substitute defining themselves by a contrarian viewpoint relative to others, until they work out who they really are. Case in point: the petulant teenager.
And when you don't know you don't know, the questions you ask and actions you take don't display an understanding of that -- so it works to address the non literal if you want to contribute to helping people with those requests.
I hope this helps ! :)
- do you think the company did something wrong?
- do you want to help discourage other companies from doing the same thing in the future?
If the answer is yes to both, then you should testify.
The truth is, no one here has a crystal ball that will tell them the impact of testifying on your future. In life, you sometimes have to just go with what you think it right.
People are giving surprising answers here. But it is really quite simple: - do you think the company did something wrong? - do you want to help discourage other companies from doing the same thing in the future? If the answer is yes to both, then you should testify. The truth is, no one here has a crystal ball that will tell them the impact of testifying on your future. In life, you sometimes have to just go with wha…
Instead of doing the world a service by testifying, you could do the world a service by not buying t-shirts made in sweatshops, or something like that.
The moralising in this thread is too much.
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Right, which is why trying to hide the fact you testified might be a bad idea... If someone won't hire you because you testified against a criminal employer... You probably don't want to work for them. Since, as you said, companies hide their true colors, this way you can know before being hired.
On the other hand, many times hiring managers are just looking for a reason to discard your resume to narrow down the talent pool. Anything negative gets you tossed. They see this. Maybe it's a good sign, maybe it's a bad sign. Either way it's something out of the ordinary that will take more time to evaluate. Better just toss the resume. There's still another stack of 100 candidates to go through...
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> Fucked up, but organizations are often so. You can choose not to be a part of these organizations.
You can certainly aspire to that. Some companies are really good at hiding their true colors. Mortgage, kids... Sometimes you need a paycheck.
Mortgages are not inherently bad. It's what you take the mortgage for is the bad decision.
Example:
Good:
Having a mortgage for a legal duplex (2 dwellings) and renting the other half out, while you live in one.
Bad:
Getting a house that's one big sink hole of cash and having more bedrooms/lawn/what have you.
You can be employed to build someone else's dreams. However there are other options available to you that don't involve being a rat.