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You have just perfectly demonstrated how these new rules can be used to crush even a hint of dissent. I'm out.

I think a few of the things from the quote are troubling because they were phrased so ambiguously the management could interpret them in disingenuous ways that mean you could theoretically push anyone you wanted out of a company. But at this point isn't it just a memo from the CEO and not a formalized SOP? I would hope the SOP would clarify more.

However, I think lots of people wondered why in the quote you included a few things that don't seem to be anything aside from objectively bad, such as "assuming bad intent" and "making unsubstantiated accusations."

How did someone simply asking you about it "crush" you into silence?

That person used my very questioning of it as an example of something that "assumed bad intent", etc etc, as the memo said, "will not be tolerated". Scale that up to a workplace, and I can see how that could go sideways.

In what sense were you crushed by goatinaboat? If somebody publicly disagrees with you, does that mean they have crushed you?

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