#ethical

What is going on with these people in EMTech? I invited a friend who works at a CO₂‑capture startup to do a talk, and suddenly they’re asking me to “see if we can use his models.” We get constant phishing‑awareness emails drilled into us, yet now they want me to violate someone else’s IP. That’s not curiosity ,that’s asking me to steal technology. Amazing. We can’t click a fake UPS link, but apparently stealing someone else’s technology is fine.

I suggest we all submit reports to the Ethics Line on the Head of HR for clearly unethical and immoral rollout of the new RTO dashboard. I say it's unethical as they are now claiming it to be retroactive when not even 24 hours earlier, it was showing myself and many others as 100% compliant.

https://capitalandmain.com/oil-companies-accused-of-massive-accounting-fraud-in-new-mexico.
"Oil companies ExxonMobil, Empire Petroleum and their subsidiaries engaged in accounting fraud that could cost the state nearly $200 million, a lawsuit filed in New Mexico District Court alleges. If successful, plaintiffs say the case could change how old oil and gas assets are sold, leading to fewer orphan wells in the future"

This company does not care about you, and they think they can get rid of you in order to save costs. That is all this company cares about, is money. So, that is the way to make them hurt and feel some pain...

We are all in positions where we can make the company costs increase significantly relative to our puny wages. I'm not talking about doing something severe, illegal, or sabotage. I'm not encouraging that at all and don't condone it.

In our respective areas, we all have things such as:

• Improvements (nice to haves) that you are working to stream line or automate - stop working it.
• We all have "grey" areas in our work area's. Whether it is regulatory compliance (AER, Mines and Minerals act, ABSA, APEGA, OH&S, Law) etc. We have things that are often borderline and can be interpreted for or against us. We likely have sided on the companies side in these matters, at some personal exposure and risk. Stop supporting these, and side on the other side.
• We all have specific work items that have significant Financial Risk. Mine plans, Mine Equipment, End of life, etc. which we actively try to defer or push out. I certainly know of some items that could easily be $100M on the mine side that can hit the books next year, let them.

Again, for many of these things, you don't need to do anything active. Just stop pushing to save the company money. We can do way more cost damage than they think...

The $150M savings they are expecting annually by getting rid of us, we can easily cost them that + WAY MUCH MORE. So, Fu-k Them!

Do your part! Let the ship sink and let the bean counters feel some pain.

They’re all terrible enterprises that only care about the bottom line, no matter the cost to clients or employees. But Optum has been, hands down, the most exhausting, mentally, physically, and emotionally. The mix of daily toxicity and uncertainty, constant ethical dilemmas, and the pressure to underserve clients has taken a real toll. I don’t know how the rest of you are coping, but I can’t seem to shake it off, even in the little free time I get.