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by hechang1997 2375 days ago
It's so disingenuous to call out employees advancing their agenda when the corporations themselves are constantly abusing their power to advance their agenda.

> And the risk of people abusing power to advance their personal agenda is NOT something that would get passed easily once discovered.

Yes, it is. It get discovered all the time and no one gives a sh*t about it.

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Um, not disingenuous. See, the company isn't funded nor owned nor managed by its employees. So it's not "abuse" and it is completely legitimate, even a mandate, and a fiduciary duty that compels companies advance their agenda. A corporation MUST take these kinds of actions, it isn't even legal for them not to, let alone abuse.

Conversely, an employee's agenda can be left at home, please, if they agree to be employed. The "Engineer" is lucky she isn't brought up on misuse of computing system charges.

I don't like companies that invade employees and customers outside-of-work freedoms. Just as I don't like employees that abuse and undermine the relationship that they freely entered with their employers. If you don't like it - quit and go work somewhere else. Then become activist.