Your company is doing something unethical. What do you do?
When a California technology firm started selling surveillance tools to an oppressive regime, the employees refused to be a part of it.
Ever been asked to do something at work you think is a bad idea? Kriss Andsten has. Before he quit, he was an engineer for a California-based technology firm, and he was part of a project so questionable that one colleague described it this way: “People could well die from this work.”
So, according to leaked information obtained by Forbes, he sent a company-wide email on April 4 announcing his departure. It’s the kind of email you wish you had the guts to send but haven’t had an epic-enough reason. In it, Andsten reveals to every employee what their company, Procera Networks, was doing.
“I do not wish to spend the rest of my life with the regret of having been a part of Erdoğan’s insanity, so I’m out,” he wrote. “We are … heading down the rabbit hole where we’re not using it for good anymore, in the name of chasing the next buck. A recent request from Turkey … seals the deal for me. The Cliffs Notes version is that we’re selling a solution for extracting usernames and passwords from unencrypted traffic.”
