What is the moral thing to do?
Ask HN: Should I testify?
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Re: Ask HN: Should I testify?
#32I'd say there's something even more important operating here for you than career, and that's who do you choose to be? This is really a question it works for you to answer yourself. Consult your own values, search your feelings, is this something that really inspires you? Are you being you authentically if you do testify or not? Whatever you discover, take the risk and act on that, whichever it is. The choice that is…
This is the only answer to his question :)
Re: Ask HN: Should I testify?
#33Testify.
As an employeer, the kind of lawsuits that give me pause would be from a sanctamonious employee out to make a quick buck.
This lawsuit look like the testamony is coming from a principaled employee: the kind of employee that I would be proud to work with that would call me to better behaviour.
Re: Ask HN: Should I testify?
#34I'd say there's something even more important operating here for you than career, and that's who do you choose to be? This is really a question it works for you to answer yourself. Consult your own values, search your feelings, is this something that really inspires you? Are you being you authentically if you do testify or not? Whatever you discover, take the risk and act on that, whichever it is. The choice that is…
This is the only answer to his question :)
Or hers :)
Re: Ask HN: Should I testify?
#35Tell them to subpoena you - then the choice to testify is not yours any more. You'll have to. But you can tell future employers that you were forced, if you'd like to.
This is smart. Guilty as sin or not, testifying against an employer seems risky for one's career. You want to be able to explain to future employers what happened in a manner that takes personal character assessment out of the equation: somebody broke the law and you got a subpoena.
EDIT: I've worked at some shops that were "cultish" and would look at testifying without a subpoena as not being part of the team. Fucked up, but organizations are often so. You need to do the right thing in the smartest way possible.
Re: Ask HN: Should I testify?
#36I think it depends a lot on what the actual infraction is.
If it's something that most people in your industry actually think is bad, go for it.
Then again, there are now so many and so broad regulations that any business will violate some on a daily basis. I would like to work with people who don't go to the legal system whenever they can.
Re: Ask HN: Should I testify?
#37Tell them to subpoena you - then the choice to testify is not yours any more. You'll have to. But you can tell future employers that you were forced, if you'd like to.
I prefer this over to the "search within yourself" answer.
Re: Ask HN: Should I testify?
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Re: Ask HN: Should I testify?
#39i was a named plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against google in 2009. that didn't stop them from contacting me repeatedly to try and hire me, and i did work for google for a bit in 2013.
i wouldn't worry about it.
Re: Ask HN: Should I testify?
#40I'd say there's something even more important operating here for you than career, and that's who do you choose to be? This is really a question it works for you to answer yourself. Consult your own values, search your feelings, is this something that really inspires you? Are you being you authentically if you do testify or not? Whatever you discover, take the risk and act on that, whichever it is. The choice that is…
This is the only answer to his question :)
Except it doesn't answer the actual question...