[Teever]

It's too convenient that so many of these stories go something like "It was okay when I joined but somewhere along the way things there got dirty, but I'm still clean!"

Why is it always that way?

Why is no one ever writing "It was always dirty there but I convinced myself that it wasn't until I couldn't do it anymore."

Because people don't want to admit "I made a mistake."

That's why.

[dpark]

That’s one possibility. Could also be “it got worse”. Could also be a combo of the two.

This “holier than thou” stuff is lame. Shaming people for having a job. You working for UNICEF?

[Teever]

It isn't in dispute that it got worse.

Most of us have worked at a place that was either bad enough that we knew and didn't say anything or that we should have known was that bad. That isn't anything new. You do what you gotta do and all that.

What we're splitting hairs over is whether or not Google (and others) were already "too bad to work for" 10-15 years ago. And whether or not some people correctly identified this and others didn't / did but say that they didn't.

You're totally right -- very few of us have careers entirely at places like UNICEF. That's just reality. What isn't reality is the image some people like to portray that they didn't know or couldn't have reasonably known that the entity that they were a part of for so many years was no UNICEF.