I was kinda shocked by the results of his informal survey, because this was a big focus of my ethics course in college. I guess a lot of developers either didn't get a CS degree, or their degree program didn't involve an ethics course.
The Skype for Business "installer" is too good at removing stuff.
Skype for Business stop working, I run "Repair" on the installation, progress bar zips to completion. Skype for Business is now gone. Oh, and so is the rest of Microsoft Office.
Indeed. I supported the absentee voting push during the pandemic, but one thing a lot of my friends don't understand is my opposition to absentee voting being normalized going forward.
In the US, implied employment contracts are "at-will". This means the employer may fire an employee for any reason (except reasons that explicitly break a law, like firing a black employee for being black). Likewise, an employee can quit at any time, with no recourse for the employer (2-weeks notice is a custom, not a contractual obligation under at-will employment).
Just to be clear we don't have indentured servitude or forced labour in my country either. Employees can quit any time they like, even with employment contracts. A contract cannot force anyone to work, under any conditions. Even with a contracted notice period an employee can walk away at any moment. They would be in breach of their employment agreement but there's very little recourse on the employers side. The employee must be paid for any work they have performed, no exceptions.
The employer may sue for damages in the case an employee does not complete their notice period, but they cannot force them to work it. And the employer would need to demonstrate damages.
But an employer cannot just dump an employee who has an employment contract (implied or explicit).
> The employer may sue for damages in the case an employee does not complete their notice period, but they cannot force them to work it. And the employer would need to demonstrate damages.
Not completing your notice period opening you up to a lawsuit sounds like essentially forcing you to work.
In America, it is exceptionally rare to hold someone liable for quitting their job, even if there are damages. Like, if I work the opening weekday shift at a small store, and decide to quit with zero notice, and now there's nobody available to open the store the next day, it's not my problem. Even though the owner could demonstrate the damages of lost sales an during those hours, there's literally nothing they can do.
At a larger corporation, even if my departure causes some major project to fall behind schedule, it's not my problem. Software engineers can quit with zero notice and be completely immune to any legal ramifications.
There are other usages of we for an individual. I think the writer is trying to use what is called the editorial we, not the royal we.
I will say it's use in that article is rather jarring however.
edit: Looking it up, it appear this has a fancy name, encompassing the royal we, the editorial we, and more: Nosism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosism
