I didn't exactly quit, but when the C/UNIX development company i was working for indicated that because we'd lost our main client, we were considering doing work for Australian Defence Industried (you know, helping people blowing things up). I sent an email to the boss, cc'ed to it "all" indicating that whilst i was happy to work on any non-defence project, i would not participate in defence (the best defence is a good offense!!) related work. two other people sent emails stating that they also took this position. We were obviously the first three to be "downsized".
I didn't have kids or a mortgage back then, but I am glad i stuck by my morals (and i don't apply my moral boundaries to others, if you want to write software to aim helicopter gun turrets, i ain't gonna hold it against you). It took me a while to find another decent job, back that was back in '96, and the next job got me into java programming and i haven't looked back. I am very fortunate, that i've never had to work on Windows, and I've managed to work on SUN machines since 1990, in fact, for my last job, i made it a condition of working there, that i got to work on a sun box rather than a PC:-). If I could not work with proper computers, I would definitely be lining up another job:-)
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I didn't exactly quit, but when the C/UNIX development company i was working for indicated that because we'd lost our main client, we were considering doing work for Australian Defence Industried (you know, helping people blowing things up). I sent an email to the boss, cc'ed to it "all" indicating that whilst i was happy to work on any non-defence project, i would not participate in defence (the best defence is a good offense!!) related work. two other people sent emails stating that they also took this position. We were obviously the first three to be "downsized".
I didn't have kids or a mortgage back then, but I am glad i stuck by my morals (and i don't apply my moral boundaries to others, if you want to write software to aim helicopter gun turrets, i ain't gonna hold it against you). It took me a while to find another decent job, back that was back in '96, and the next job got me into java programming and i haven't looked back. I am very fortunate, that i've never had to work on Windows, and I've managed to work on SUN machines since 1990, in fact, for my last job, i made it a condition of working there, that i got to work on a sun box rather than a PC :-). If I could not work with proper computers, I would definitely be lining up another job :-)