Re: Ethics and Job-Hunting
Obviously a fallacious assumption.I agree more so than not. However, while it might be fallacious to assume that you advocate a product, it might be a reasonable assumption that you didn't actively object to it.
I believe that for most of us writing documentation is JUST A JOB. It
pays the bills and allows us to enjoy life with our families and other
priorities. It doesn't really matter what the subject is, we just do our
best to explain it.
And don't forget, too, that people are going to assume that you advocate the product, almost automatically, and despite anything you say.
For example, because I have worked for several Linux companies, many people assume that I'm violently anti-Microsoft, and love all the endless variations on Tux, the Linux mascot. It doesn't matter how often I say that Microsoft is mostly irrelevant to me, and that at two companies I instituted a "no-Tux" policy in marketing.
It may be just a job to us, but, to other people, where we work helps them decide what they think of us.
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Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com
"Humpty Dumpty was pushed: head over heels all over the wall,
Humpty Dumpty was pushed: nobody noticed at all,
And all the king's horses and all the king's men
Gathered round Humpty and kicked him again;
And they called for a priest and a couple of friends,
And they all stood around and chanted, Amen."
-Tommy Sands, "Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed
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