Always cover your ass. Every âThis is illegalâ or âThis is unsafeâ email needs to be BCCâd to your private email adres.
Iâve had a company hire me as an indpendant consultant, because the law says they need someone qualified to check their waste management plans. Their plan basically said âWeâll take one scoop of polluted soil, and mix it with the clean soil, making sure to stay under the legal limits for clean soilâ. I told them that was really, really illegal, would cost them their license, would cost me my license, and would cost every person who signed it several thousands of euroâs personally. I also email them.
4 months later, I get inspectors ringing my doorbell, holding up the plan I very definitely didnât sign, with what absolutely was my signature. If I didnât have those emails, Iâd be royally fucked. With those emails, we could add fraud to the charges.
I donât know why, but I first read âorgâ as âdogâ and I thought âexcuse you, OP and all 100% of the upvoters but you can fuck right off. My dog absolutely has my back and he is more family to me than my parents areâ
but then I re-read that and was like âoh, yeah. 100%â
âI will definitely commit crimes and legal falsehoods for my dog, and fuck anyone who disagreesâ
I get it. Heâd do it for me, so Iâd do it for him
Do yourself a favor and donât stick with these kind of employers. Iâve only worked for one company where I had to routinely send CYA emails. Should have resigned the second I figured out that the CEO was morally bankrupt and my boss was a spineless jackass who refused to stand up to him. I donât miss that job one bit.
- Donât break the Law for the company or the boss.
- Keep the company shit in company devices and your shit in your devices. That means company computer and phone for their stuff and your own for yours. If thereâs ever any Lawsuit or Criminal investigation on the company they wonât take your stuff as evidence if you donât at all use it for company work and wonât intrude in your privacy if the company stuff isnât used for your own stuff.
- Even if itâs totally legal, if something that your are being ordered to do against your better advice might come back to bite you (i.e. you might get blamed for the negative outcome you predict will come from it), get that order in writing.
Even your direct lead canât be assumed to be your friend (no matter how nice: niceness is easily and commonly faked) until youâve gone through some proper shit together and he or she has shown themselves to be somebody that will take the hit rater than âblame their underlingsâ - trusts is earned, not due.
Whats âyour orgâ in this context? If your org is any sort of refugee help org then this seems impractical. I assume âorgâ is supposed to mean commercial company/employer?
