Say you needed a job, and then got offered a position from a company that you despise

[HipChick]

would you still take the offer, until you could find something else?

[Xyzse]

1. Depends on the job.

If it is the type of job that I want, and the pay is good, I don't see why not.

A job is a job, I don't take things personally.
If I am in a high enough position, perhaps I can even move it to a direction more in line to what I want.

If I really don't like it, as well as the culture, then my job search is not over, and keep searching while working. (I really have no idea what to do with myself if I am not working)
I'll take the money from the job, and if I was vindictive enough, I'd use it against them.

However, as mentioned, I don't take things personally and I tend to be professional about such things.

So, that's how it is with me, I am sure others are different.

The only place I don't see myself going for, even if I need a job would be Chick-Fil-A.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. I was desperate for almost ANY job when I moved to Tucson... to the point that I had my hair cut...

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... from small-of-my-back length to about an inch long (I identified recently with Dystopian's
son, who seems to have done the same thing for a day job) -- and found out later that Tucson
employers, for the most part, don't CARE about male employees' hair length.
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I mentioned to one of the Native American show hosts at the community radio station where I
was doing volunteer clerical work at the time that I would not EVER consider Raytheon -- a
Defense contractor that makes missile systems here in Tucson.
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He told me that he admired my value system (they're one of the few GOOD-paying jobs you
can get here entry-level), but that he would jump at the chance.
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This kinda shocked me... both that he didn't see it as an obvious and natural choice on my
part... and that HE would work there (duh... I realized later that he had a kind of rightwing
Libertarian show as compared to the more spiritual progressive shows of our other two
Indian hosts).
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I spent 6 years in the Army as a medic, but I saw "our" job as one of deterrence (70's still
being the height of the Cold War).
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I see those missile systems as dealers of death... not deterrence.
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So no, I would not have taken an offer from a company I truly despised.
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[HipChick]

5. I've worked for Raytheon...but this would be like jumping to Halliburton

[crunch60]

20. Unless you can let all the things you see, hear, and are asked to do, roll off your back, without

becoming emotionally involved, I would never take the job. Life is to short, and stress will kill you. Don't sell yourself
to a company you despise.

[Blue_Tires]

3. Depends on the company

If it was say, Fox News, then no way in hell...

But for example, I've been a longtime Wal-Mart hater, but even I have to admit it has saved my uncle and aunt (whose previous once-profitable professions went up in smoke with the 08 economy crash), and as a result their adult kids and their growing brood of grandchildren, since they've had some rough times lately, too...If they found a way for me to get in on the management/administration side of things, I'd seriously think about it...

My uncle and aunt are lifelong liberal Dems (although still in the stone age on GLBT issues), but it is shocking to see how easily they've gulped the "Wal-Mart is the greatest, most innovative cost-efficient corporation in the history of America and all unions in every industry should fucking DIE!" -koolaide

[HopeHoops]

4. No. I wouldn't apply in the first place.

[HipChick]

6. Sometimes in contracting, you don't know who is behind the green door

until you get the contract

[Xyzse]

7. Ohhh... So this is contract work.

That makes it a bit easier then.
I'd hold off for another job. If it was an in house management job, I'd take it. It would allow me to affect some change within the existing system.

[HappyMe]

8. If there aren't a bunch of other things

on the horizon, I would take it. Since you said that it is a contract job, I assume that there is an end point to the work. If the end point isn't far into the future, I would take it. Take their dollahs.

On the other hand, if it is a long job and you know that you will be very unhappy, don't take it. Your hatred of the company might affect your work, and then in the long run their evaluation of you.

Good luck.

[hunter]

9. No, don't accept the offer.

Working for someone you despise will interfere with finding the job you can live with, or even the job you will love.

Every minute you work for a soulless corporate machine you despise will be a minute removed from your life.

If it's an exceptionally wretched job and contrary to everything you stand for, then it will eat away at you and you will lose two minutes of your life for every minute you work there.

Trust me, you don't want to drop dead when you're fifty on the floor of some factory making parts for a useless, expensive, dysfunctional, pork barrel weapons system.

I figured that out in my twenties...

[RobinA]

10. Why Did I Apply

for a job at a company I despise? I have never done this.

Oh, ok contract. Have never done that either (hope I never do), so I don't know. Actually, I wouild take a job at a company I hate before I would be a contractor.

[Yavin4]

11. If You Really Need The Job, Take It

If you can afford to not take it, then don't. We live in culture that only cares about money and wealth.

[HipChick]

12. How true...whatever it takes to pay the bills..

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. Yes, I would take it. Hold my nose and take it. Pay my bills and keep looking.

Good Luck!

[SEMOVoter]

14. I don't know.

We have one shot at life and the opportunity for many careers.

I loved my last job until a feckless company bought it. Management used my personal information to setup a credit card on my line of credit and without my signature. I was asked to do things of a financial nature that were highly questionable. No, I wouldn't work for them again.

Money is never the only motivator.

[Moondog]

15. Yes.

If I needed a job, I'd take it. Bills to pay, and all that.

And then there's this essential perversity - it's frequently much easier to find a job if you already have one. Many employers will pick a fill that is already employed over one that is not on the theory that the one that is currently employed can demonstrably "play well with others" while the one that is not possibly has issues, so why take the chance. Hideously unfair, but it happens.

Why handicap yourself? Take it, and keep looking.

[HeiressofBickworth]

16. Many years ago

I interviewed for a job with two attorneys. They told me that they were active in the Republican Party. I told them that I didn't share those values and would do nothing to further them or support them. So if I worked for them, I would do no work for them relating to the Republican Party. I figured that would be the end of that....

They hired me anyway. And they never asked me to do any work for their party. I was there for 2 years and left because their business was dropping off and since I was also the bookkeeper, I could see that there was no future there so I took a different job.

[Iggo]

17. I take it.

[Nye Bevan]

18. Take it, and work to improve the company from within,

so that I no longer hated it.

[kelliekat44]

19. Take it and use their money wisely. nt

[Orrex]

21. Funny you should ask! I worked that job for nine years.

Ultimately I hated my boss, my department, the company, the industry, and the job itself.

But I had this strange compulsion to feed my family and keep a roof over our heads, so somehow I managed to drag my ass back to my cube each day.

I took the job in the absence of options, and for that reason I stayed.

[Corgigal]

22. I did it

worked for a call center at a major bank where I was suppose to not give back any fees unless they asked for it. Was told to fight with people if I had to so I could force them to ask for fees back on overdrafts for example.

Worked there two months and my family begged for me to quit. I did. (I gave everyone their money back, screw that asking crap. Some people really did honest mistakes and didn't even know to ask). I can't work for a bank. I'm not that person.