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TreasonousBastard

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4. It's very simple-- if your principles don't allow you to do your job...

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 01:03 PM

Oct 2015

don't take the job.

I know-- it's not easy to walk away from a good-paying job, and you get a lot more press out of a fight, but if you actually have principles, you will do the right thing no matter how much it hurts.

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