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You must not allow them to fool you into thinking that these aren't the rules they're playing by. David Sirlin's "Playing to Win" is a good treatise on how to be good, and perhaps the most important lesson is to play the game by the rules as written, and not by some other set of rules that exists only in your head.
(Though in this case the victim was senior enough that I suspect he was playing the game to the best of his ability, trying to humanize himself to gain the upper hand in some other manipulation game and misplayed, kicking things into the legal arena, as one does)
Make shit up. Don't talk about your personal life at a company function, ever. Hell, lie and make an embarrassing but completely legal story. Or something stupid like you were totally embarassed in HS or college. But, never ever share your actual personal lives in a corporate setting. Not one time.
I would strongly discourage anyone from making things up. I have participated in these exercises, and many people simply said, “I really have nothing to share that would interest you.” Those were the people others respected the most. They might share personal things with close friends, but they had a clear definition of what friendship meant. In other words, be a person of character. It is perfectly fine not to be fr…
Companies will use everything and anything against you when they believe it’s time for you to go.
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It's not, although rules vary by state. Medical professionals can prescribe it even though it's a Schedule III drug. I get ads for these presumably legitimate therapy services online all the time on major social networks.
why isn't Netflix firing anyone who had even a minor surgery or even tooth extraction done, since it most likely involved opioids
I always felt that those trust exercises, "bring your whole self to work", "let us pay for a personality test so we can know each other better" are all ruses to find the most gullible people and then take advantage of them or get rid of them.
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Could always read the article to find out, since it answers your question.
They don't give any real details
At a January company retreat this year at a Netflix-owned property in California, Baillie shared this experience "
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"A company attorney acknowledged that “the ketamine therapy issue has factored into the termination.”"