Working for the villians...

[Technocrat]

So, after graduating with your BA in history of art, you've been scrabbling around desperately looking for work. You've managed to seize a reasonable paper-pushing job working for a finance company. The work isn't hard, it pays about £18,000 P/A (or whatever a low-ish desk-jockey earns in your part of the world), the benefits and environment are nice, and the colleagues are friendly. You're not quite sure what the company itself does, but they don't ask a great deal of you.

Eventually, you come across documents showing that the company are involved in some incredibly unethical activity. Think "Quantum" from James Bond. Things like causing droughts to drive local populations away and enable business exploitation of rural South America, or the sale of armaments to African warzones. Actions which, while having no direct bearing on you, are likely to lead to the death, sickness, or homelessness of thousands around the world, to further business and political goals of their clients.

Your position is but a cog in the machine. Your job involves making sure that all the t's are crossed and i's are dotted, and your departure from the company would result in someone replacing you. Having found out what the company does though, how would you act with your new knowledge?


a) Quit as soon as I can, and take whatever evidence I can to blow the whistle.

b) Quit for bland, generic reasons, not letting them on to your knowledge (e.g. I need to spend more time with my mother, etc)

c) A job's a job - put effort in, and keep at it with a good work ethic. It's not like it affects me too much, after all.

d) Be the best damned employee I can be. After all, if I prove my worth around here, I could be rich sooner or later! Or end up calling the shots.

e) Something else

[Atelier]

Not A. Corporations like that are sure to have hit-men. And your address.
Not B. Corporations like that are sure to spy on you if you resign spontaneously.

So possibly D. If I end up calling the shots, I can stop all this without court cases, tapped phone-lines, or a bullet in my brain.

Or E. Go back the next day and photograph all the evidence with a disposable camera. Then give the film to the regular soak in the local, who we all know works for the Secret Service.

[Anian]

I think that this company sounds like the perfect thing to start doing the same thing we do every night Pinky, TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

[tzachs]

It depends on how afraid I'm gonna be...
If I'm brave, then e. Go to the police (without quitting, maybe they will want me to go undercover for them for some extra cash  ).
If not, then B (and AG, you've seen too many movies  ).

[Bulbapuck]

E. Stop doing the job. Basically get in late, take naps, play PSP and such. Getting fired is not as suspitious and besides, you get the benefit of being lazy at work

[GarageGothic]

WikiLeaks through anonymous means (provided I'm not the only likely suspect, otherwise the authorities). When it happens depends on my chances of collecting better/more evidence by keeping the job, and on whether there's an immediate threat that can be halted by exposure.

[Igor Hardy]

Didn't Diamonds in the Rough have a plot like this? (I still haven't played the full version)

[GarageGothic]

Didn't Diamonds in the Rough have a plot like this? (I still haven't played the full version)

It does, very much so. Though your character isn't some peripheral pencil pusher for Evil Inc., but quite pivotal to their plan (yet unaware of its goal and scope). Lesson learned: Anonymous corporations who track down people with psychic powers and seclude them in a company owned town in the middle of nowhere probably aren't doing it for charity.

[Mr Flibble]

In an adventure game, A, obviously.

However in real life, it's a coinflip between D and B.

[GarageGothic]

In an adventure game, A, obviously.

And miss out on the whole industrial espionage section of the game? I mean, I love Phoenix Wright but I'm not sure courtroom drama makes for very exciting gameplay from the witness' stand.

[Baron]

As a unionized worker, my first impulse was to vote for the "keep putting time in, but not a whole lot of effort" option.  But -gasp! it's not there!  C'mon, at least some of you would be tempted to do a half-assed job, if not to slowly rot the enterprise from within as your low work-ethic permeates the work force, then because it is surely the path of least resistance.  I'll add it as option F.

[Mr Flibble]

In an adventure game, A, obviously.

And miss out on the whole industrial espionage section of the game? I mean, I love Phoenix Wright but I'm not sure courtroom drama makes for very exciting gameplay from the witness' stand.

The industrial espionage bit would be me gathering the evidence and trying to take the company down, and then I'm also trapped in the building like Die Hard style, and have to escape with all the evidence. Or trying to take it down by breaking minor things, that'd be a nice game too.

[Dualnames]

Choose whatever you can sleep with. There's not an ideal choice here.

[Layabout]

Sell your story to the local tabloid, or even better, the Sun newspaper, take the riches and move to another country.

[InCreator]

d)! It's a nice jump-start for becoming an evil genius. It's not like mayhem and destruction would stop or become any smaller without you. But right now, you have a tiny bit of control how it goes--
Also, if you work yourself up, you have even more control over it. So you could preach and turn whole company from dark paths... or profit from it via your wage and get at least something good out of bad -- or donate it to suffering people, or whatever...

I'd personally do it just for sake of doing something globally evil  ..   but only if pay grade > (conscience*2).