>You do have a choice of where you work. "i just want to keep my job" is not a valid excuse for anything. I'm not sure how valid this is. It might be true in m

>You do have a choice of where you work. "i just want to keep my job" is not a valid excuse for anything. I'm not sure how valid this is. It might be true in most of the United States, but if you work for $GIANT_JAPANESE_AUTO_COMPANY which produces the second largest number of patents/year in the world after IBM (iirc), you have very few employment options other than said company geographically, and the corporate culture there makes it extremely difficult to change jobs at all.