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Of course it is unethical. Regardless of anything your contract might state and regardless of your other options, if your employer needs you, you are bound by duty to stay. You have an ethical obligation to make things as easy as possible for your colleagues, no matter what hardships or long-term commitments this requires that you take on. Having collaborated on a project with others gives the collaboraters an unlimited moral claim on your future time and energy.

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So you think it's good for the employer if an employee wants to quit because they think they are underpaid to stay and work on said project? Especially when they seem to they are screwing him?

He was being sarcastic (I hope).

Yeah, I was. Since I'm getting quite a few down votes I'll just add that I felt the sarcasm was warranted because I don't understand why this question even needs to be asked. What would ever make someone think that they had some sort of ethical obligation to start some project just because their employer asked them to? And even if the thought did occur to you, the implications are obviously absurd.

I think some of the downvotes you got are from people who just didn't read the whole comment. After your first sentence, I wanted to downvote you too. It wasn't until the last line that I was sure you were being sarcastic, so I can understand other peoples confusion.

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