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If I was working at the place where my colleagues were trying to actively undermine CEO by character assassination, that would be disruptive for me. Those folks as my experience at workplace shows could be quite bullies. Working by their side would absolutely be disruptive.

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That's not how anything works. Your sensibilities being offended is not the same as materially disrupting the operations of the business.

when I work on something important and someone approaches me with her left-wing political activism, operations will most certainly be disrupted. I work in tech, and I know firsthand what sort of bullying is being preceded by such people approaching you. It is absolutely material

> That's not how anything works. Your sensibilities being offended is not the same as materially disrupting the operations of the business.

The NLRB disagrees with you. Look up the James Damore case.

I agree, though the problem for me is that it was public not private. By blasting it publicly they violated their NDAs too (I presume)

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