Across 3 companies in 10 years, yeah, each one requested me to pursue ethically questionable ends. Sometimes it was an abuse of our customers. Sometimes it was

Across 3 companies in 10 years, yeah, each one requested me to pursue ethically questionable ends. Sometimes it was an abuse of our customers. Sometimes it was an abuse of other employees. I could tell the people requesting these things often felt trapped themselves, that they had to. In one occasion, I was told the company could shutter in months if "we" didn't throw up smokescreens and obfuscate the product. An important lesson is these types of people don't actually value you if you deliver their unethical requests. They've already demonstrated their lack of backbone. It's rarely a quality that cohabitates with empathy and respect.