I remember the point in my career when I started having to routinely sign non-disclosure agreements, put "proprietary" labels on my writing, and meet with attor

I remember the point in my career when I started having to routinely sign non-disclosure agreements, put "proprietary" labels on my writing, and meet with attorneys regarding agreements and contracts. I gradually realized that all real managers and executives routinely work with information which can't be shared - much of it specifically being hidden from coworkers. Combine that with all the competing interests (maximize profit & minimize costs for all the major stockholders and investors vs. all the employees). And so, eventually, I finally realized that "honesty" and "integrity" in the corporate workplace are largely an intentional illusion. If someone believes in that their workplace is "moral", it tells me that he is either someone insignificant in the company or someone who has, like most executives, adopted a "business value system" which is usually very "Ann Rand-ish" and "free market" usually with some "personal responsibility" thrown in (it helps to ease the cognitive dissonance when justified by "they deserved it" and dehumanized by "markets") Addendum: I've spent more than a decade in open source, so anyone who tells me that I should try that is just drinking the kool-aid.