Have you ever left a job to later realize the activities were illegal?

I've worked on some which were not illegal but unethical. One got convicted for corruption. Some dragged out projects as close to success as possible without finishing, to charge more, or found ways to hold the client hostage. One got banned, which was probably illegal, but not jail time type of illegal. In some of these situations, there were SOPs on how to dispose of all evidence within hours.

It's frustrating because it's like keeping a family secret. There is no evidence and will never be. I often meet young people who speculate on what happened and want some bullshit like innocent until proven guilty, or statistics, or police reports. It is.. sort of like your uncle confessing to an affair. You can't give evidence that it's happening without some betrayal and nothing good will come out of it. They know how to keep it legal. All you do is hurt your own credibility. The victims will often refuse to believe you and want more proof anyway. But so far, all of them meet with karma.

My advice: don't do it. It's incredibly demotivating and while you often don't need motivation to get something done, demotivation will keep you from getting anything real done. Projects like these bleed talent and are full of unpleasant people. And the ones who play with corruption and lies are also likely to lie to you and exploit you.

yes i know of a friend. he used to work for some b2b stay company in bangalore, india, the lady partner was a fraud.

she used to do black magic, do drug dealings, run prostitution rackets to fund her business.

he once realized this, he was threatened, if he will reveal it to anybody, he will be murdered. he went to police and the entire scandal was exposed.

finally he is free-lancing as a go programmer.

Not quite, but I once left a job in which all the other employees were illegally wiring equipment with no electrical registration. I told management they were working illegally and the outcome was that they moved their operations to Taiwan and nobody in New Zealand got the work. I was not entirely gratified.

Yess please let us know below.. so I can report it to the SEC and collect a phat bounty