[mdlug] OT: job openings
Robert Adkins
radkins at impelind.com
Tue Nov 6 08:02:52 EST 2007
> >
> > But if you want to believe that interviewers and hiring committees
> > aren't aware of that, you go right ahead.
>
> I've actually worked on some logistics for someone that was
> doing a 'adult entertainment' website. (installing and
> networking some webcams basically). Although it was a small
> enough job that I didn't list it on my resume, I learned
> enough to know that some very profitable websites are run by
> individuals who simply don't have the same hang-ups over
> their sexuality as the rest of the conservative types in the
> general population.
> If you want to get technical, a good number of 'adult
> entertainment' websites don't use 'workers' at all but simply
> plagiarize photos they have collected from other sources and
> sell access to them for profit.
> But if you also want to get technical, many so called
> 'legitimate' business have been seen to have equally
> repulsive business practices over the years, whether it is
> conveniently overlooking the use of child labor or sweat
> shops in third world countries when the bottom line generates
> a greater profit margin, leaving environmental calamities in
> their wake or having a few CEO's run away with company
> profits in mass scams. (anyone remember worldcom?) Makes me
> wonder how many interviewers and hiring committees remain
> abreast of those kinds of issues or condemn everyone that may
> have ever worked in an associated industry to the same
> standards as the crooks or other unethical types that
> perpetrated them?
>
They won't and the simple reason is that "the real world" everyone
keeps quoting deals heavily in something called "Double Standards".
-Rob
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