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Some of the reasons that stopped me: - He asked me privately during a lunch, without telling the people that do the actual work about it. - I only knew that h
by Raed667 8y ago
Some of the reasons that stopped me:
- He asked me privately during a lunch, without telling the people that do the actual work about it.
- I only knew that he intended to fire these people later when started putting the spec of the project.
- He asked me (someone very junior/intern) instead one of his more confirmed devs, which means he didn't want the company to know yet.
- I had a lot of sympathy and even kind of a friendship with those people.
- I wasn't paid enough for it.
- solarkraft 8y ago"I wasn't paid enough for it" is probably close to the best reason. To even consider doing it (for me) the value I gain should at least relate to the value I'd produce.
- pc86 8y agoIt's the only thing close to a justifiable reason, honestly. But even then, if you're paid for a full-time job as a developer, and asked to develop a piece of software, you can't very well say "I'm paid enough to develop all the other stuff you want, but not this one thing" with a straight face. You could certainly use your development of it as a good reason for a raise, though! While there are some truly bad things in the top-level comments, it seems a non-trivial percentage of the responses here are some form of "my employer attempted to make money, sometimes even a profit, in legal ways."