I Hereby Resign in Protest Effective Immediately

[hunter]

76. I had an engineering professor who quit an MIC job like that.

He was designing sophisticated radiation-hardened electronics for tanks and other armored vehicles. This was during all the media hype about "neutron bombs" and such. One day he thought to look up what would happen to the people inside those armored vehicles at the levels of radiation they were expected to endure.

He realized the crews exposed to those levels or radiation would all be dead men fighting, survival measured in days, no hope. But the tanks would still be functional...

Before that he hadn't thought much about what sorts of machine he was building, or what his roll in the bigger picture he was. It was just a job. He gave notice shortly after that and went back to school.

It was a very odd class he taught, engineering with a side order of humanities.

We also had a purple-heart veteran in the class who was missing an arm. When class started he was wearing a cosmetic prosthetic, I suspect because he was a little uncomfortable being back in school and didn't want to stand out in the crowd. Somewhere along the way he started wearing his functional plastic and metal prosthetic arm, I think his "coming out" was in this class when he removed the cosmetic arm and shared his story.