it-and-ethics

Call it what you will: Black hat, bad, abusive, evil, wrong, illegal. There are many things that are greatly looked down upon in the online world of the internets. Some things are outright illegal, and others just annoying. In my 10 or so years of being in IT I’ve only had to outright refuse one request from an employer. I was fortunate in that the combination of my prior performance/attitude outweighed the importance of the requested action. On many other occasions I’ve won at talking the company out of the action or modifying the request so that it met my standards.