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KovalainenFanBoy

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  1. @span, yeah that's a pretty fucked situation to be in. I wish there were better systems in place for job re-purposing and unemployment mitigation.. and it sucks to have your job pitted against doing what's right on a global scale.

     

    Somewhat tangential, I'm in a situation where my best job leads coming out of university are with defense contractors; not exactly thrilled about it.

     

    Doing software? I've read horror stories about defense subcontractors (of subcontractors of subcontractors...), like managers urging people to slow down progress because they would lose funding if the project was finished. You might end up in a cool project though, if you don't mind working for the world's worst money sink

  2. I currently work for a defense contractor. I'm doing software for a spanish ship, but a different team is working on the ship(s) we're supposed to be selling to the saudis. I live in an area with crazy high unemployment, with loads of people in the naval industry, which depends largely on the deal with the saudis. Now, left leaning and even right leaning parties agree we should just stop selling weapons to the saudis, but at the same time you can't just leave a fuckton of people without a job. The moment the president started making moves to stop the weapons deal, and during my first week in the job, the whole factory went on strike and started burning tires on the roads and shit, which, you know, it's kinda fucked that the biggest protests here are *against* trying to mitigate the biggest human rights crisis in recent memory.

     

    Today during the coffee break we were talking about the journalist that was butchered by the saudis, and how it's gonna affect our work, etc. and one guy went "guess it's time to go burn some tires again" to which other guy replied "it sure draws more attention than burning a yemeni kid", and then everyone just went to work again

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