Working In Utah
Monday, January 15, 2007
I recently made an offer to a local college student to do some temporary work as an intern on a project my firm is working on. The position pays a ridiculous amount of money compared to any job I ever had in college, part-time or otherwise. Had the project gone well, we likely could have kept him busy enough to literally pay for the rest of his college education.
Here was his reply.
Thank you for the information. I'm going to turn you down though as full time is a little too much for me right now (I'm doing part-time work and full-time school), and I have moral qualms about developing software for a casino. I appreciate you sending me the information - if you have opportunities in the future that involve fewer hours and aren't involved with casinos, I'd be very interested to hear them - feel free to email me again in the future.
Rest assured. I won't. Apparently this kid hasn't heard of Harry Reid.
This reminds me of an old joke from my theater days.
Actor: What's my motivation?
Director: Your motivation is that if you don't do it, the actor we hire to replace you will.
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Talkr | 2526 readsI can't wait
I can't wait till he's faced with the old classic "morals vs. eat" dilemma we all face 100 times a day.
Hmmm.
He sounds like an idiot, and you dodged a bullet when you didn't get him hired on. Wow.
And yeah, he'll be singing a different tune once he's had those 8 kids and is struggling to pay the tithing while keeping his non-working wife and kids in nice clothes and new Mormon Assault Vehicle.
Too bad one cannot
Too bad one cannot discriminate on moral grounds against people who won't work for casinos on moral grounds.
Bridge Arsonist
Wow, you'd think he could simply state a professional "no thank you" and not feel the need to impose his values where he is not even going to take the job. Maybe he just goes around applying everywhere thriving on scornful refusals. It reminds me of the time I turned down a church recruiter because he asked about my "recommend" status. I felt like I was in East Germany in the pre-1989. I essentially told him "Well, I recommend you keep looking".
Now stand and watch it burn...
That's exactly the point. He's free to choose his employment on whatever grounds he wants. But really, just say no to an offer you don't want. I don't honestly give a crap what your reasons are.
Moral Crusader
He must be worried about the overpowering temptation to gamble away all of the money you were offering.
It's not just Utah
I've worked for a company here in the land of decadence with related qualms...
In a general meeting, someone asked if there were further plans to distribute *ahem* adult materials, and a high-level executive explained how he'd like to be proud to show his mother what we do and how he hoped we weren't "about that."
(A bunch of computer programmers aren't "about that", yeah right *snicker*)
And somebody countered "But our company provides gambling services, right?"
Well, yeah, of course that's a lucrative business....
Ah, moral relativism!!! ;-)
Job still open, Pete? I
Job still open, Pete? I have no qualms and as of my "apostasy" (so I'm told) no morals.
(Course I have no software writing skills either, so that might be a deal breaker...)
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This will be the guy, ten
This will be the guy, ten years from now, when he's doing the good old Utah Self-Emplyment thing, will have paid his tithing on Sunday, then bend you over the table and do you in the keister come Monday morning in some business deal.
Geez, I love moral dilemmas.