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As a member of an unrelated professional body, the buck always stops with me on issues of ethical behaviour. I don't care how much the CEO wants me to do a thi

As a member of an unrelated professional body, the buck always stops with me on issues of ethical behaviour. I don't care how much the CEO wants me to do a thing that is good for the bottom line - if I want to keep letters after my name I have to behave in a way that is in line with the professional code of conduct I signed up to. I'm not saying that such a model is the right one for devs, but it would certainly be an interesting move away from "not my fault - nobody would let me do it right". CEOs would, of course, then have the choice to hire non-accredited engineers to work on their software, and then the buck does stop there because they made an active decision.

FussyZeus 9y ago
> I'm not saying that such a model is the right one for devs, but it would certainly be an interesting move away from "not my fault - nobody would let me do it right". I would say I'm in a similar position, but that's because I'm more or less essential (no ego here, and can't explain obviously, but I am) and if I walk out, the company has a lot of BFPs to deal with. Perhaps there should be some sort of guild? Some way that we could make it harder for ourselves to be replaced in such a way where we can actually stop bucks without just getting fired while they find some script kiddie to do what we wouldn't.