Comment by Kluny
7 years ago
You have to decide for yourself how much you can tolerate and still respect yourself. I'd have made the same choice as OP, and because I know that about myself, I keep fuck-off money in my bank account in case I ever need to take a stand that gets me fired. Self-respect is more important to me than any one job.
Yeah, I'm with you there. Like at the end of the day, I don't want to work for a company that treats a client's site with such gross negligence. The client was trusting us to manage the site responsibly and we would have been majorly violating that trust with those actions. To me, it felt like an ethical issue, I wasn't even thinking of legal ramifications (which I imagine there are some). I was very young then.
Nowadays I'm in the medical field. If you let standards slip to "get shit done fast," you can kill someone.
I don’t yet have that luxury, but this is one of my big overriding goals - FI by early 40s.
I’ve been in one or two situations where I would have walked if not for my mortgage and being sole provider with a young family.
Absolutely hated not having that choice, remembering how disempowering that was keeps me on track to work towards that freedom.
(I am not in SV, and good options at my level in my location take a few months to find)
It's easier to stand your ground when you're young, single, and mobile (which I was at the time).
As a medical student you might see something unethical or negligent happen during rotations, but even speaking up could risk your career (superiors give you a bad eval, this affects residency applications down the line). This hasn't happened to me personally, but you hear stories from other students with all kinds of actions and outcomes. So I really feel ya there. There isn't a one size fits all walk off point because stakes are always different.
Good luck on your FIRE plans!