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I would do whatever you feel is in your best interests. Don't worry about the finances or jobs of other people, it's not your responsibility. Also don't worry a

I would do whatever you feel is in your best interests. Don't worry about the finances or jobs of other people, it's not your responsibility. Also don't worry about the well-being of the company unless you have a large financial stake in it. Who cares if they're wasting money on employing them. Your role as an engineer is to write code. I wouldn't step too far outside of that. Let management do what they want.

CyberFonic 11y ago
Perhaps you should have gotten a go ahead to do the work. But now that you have done it, demonstrate it to your manager. Present the pros & cons. Doing so you demonstrate your initiative and abilities. Then as already suggested, let management do what they are paid to do. Business is not a social justice exercise, especially not for engineers.
- wavefunction 11y ago
  Writing the tools in the first place demonstrate their initiative and abilities. Present the tools to the analysts and let them see what strengths and weaknesses they find that you can use to refine your tools. Their inter-departmental praise (if such is the case) will lift your ship more than allowing your manager to claim credit for managing you to develop the solution. >>Business is not a social justice exercise, especially not for engineers. Says one person.
- micheljansen 11y ago
  > Business is not a social justice exercise, especially not for engineers. Actually, ethics are especially important for engineers, as they are often the ones with the skills to bring about impactful changes to society. Makes me think the IEEE and ACM codes of ethics should be more known: * http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html * http://www.acm.org/about/se-code http://www.acm.org/about/se-code
eropple 11y ago
> I would do whatever you feel is in your best interests. Don't worry about the finances or jobs of other people, it's not your responsibility. It is his responsibility--I would say duty--to not be a shitty person. Whether or not the ramifications of his actions would make him a shitty person (and while I tend to think, in the case that has been described and assuming the unlikely case that he is right about its impact, it would not, that does not have any bearing on the greater, more important issue that you have stomped upon), it speaks rather well of him that he is concerned about those ramifications upon those around him. The advocacy of unthinking selfishness is one of the worse diseases of tech workers. Were it that everyone in this industry gave such a damn about the people around them, yeah?

CyberFonic 11y ago

Perhaps you should have gotten a go ahead to do the work. But now that you have done it, demonstrate it to your manager. Present the pros & cons. Doing so you demonstrate your initiative and abilities. Then as already suggested, let management do what they are paid to do. Business is not a social justice exercise, especially not for engineers.

wavefunction 11y ago
Writing the tools in the first place demonstrate their initiative and abilities. Present the tools to the analysts and let them see what strengths and weaknesses they find that you can use to refine your tools. Their inter-departmental praise (if such is the case) will lift your ship more than allowing your manager to claim credit for managing you to develop the solution. >>Business is not a social justice exercise, especially not for engineers. Says one person.
micheljansen 11y ago
> Business is not a social justice exercise, especially not for engineers. Actually, ethics are especially important for engineers, as they are often the ones with the skills to bring about impactful changes to society. Makes me think the IEEE and ACM codes of ethics should be more known: * http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html * http://www.acm.org/about/se-code http://www.acm.org/about/se-code

eropple 11y ago

> I would do whatever you feel is in your best interests. Don't worry about the finances or jobs of other people, it's not your responsibility. It is his responsibility--I would say duty--to not be a shitty person. Whether or not the ramifications of his actions would make him a shitty person (and while I tend to think, in the case that has been described and assuming the unlikely case that he is right about its impact, it would not, that does not have any bearing on the greater, more important issue that you have stomped upon), it speaks rather well of him that he is concerned about those ramifications upon those around him. The advocacy of unthinking selfishness is one of the worse diseases of tech workers. Were it that everyone in this industry gave such a damn about the people around them, yeah?