[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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