[bulatb]

It's hard to be professional if no one wants or values it but you. The word your manager would use is "obstinate."

If they have not internalized the consequences of the risks they're asking their subordinates to take, they'll weigh what look like vague misgivings about "mumble, should be better, dangerous, blah blah" against the better understood risk of their bonus disappearing if the product doesn't ship on time.

Even if you choose to sacrifice yourself, your reputation, and your future prospects--again, if almost no employer in your industry would value what you call professionalism over short-term profits--someone else will ship the code you wouldn't.

That isn't a defense of anything; it's just a fact. Taboos (e.g. against bad code) don't work if they're not shared by the majority.

[wpietri]

Sure, you can tell yourself that, and it will remain true. Or you can act like a professional and seek out places that value that. I have, and know others who do. I don't think we've sacrificed anything.