Right, hence my comment. I wouldn't be worried at all. It feels like a different working culture (or country). It seems like one of those cultural things, like

Right, hence my comment. I wouldn't be worried at all. It feels like a different working culture (or country). It seems like one of those cultural things, like how Europeans and Americans have inverse views on the severity of sex and violence. I think you may have even misinterpreted my comment as me thinking I'm somehow "above the rules" or whatever, even. It's not that. It's that it would have literally never crossed my mind that my continued employment would be related to how I behave in relation to this document. In my personal life I left behind that sort of 'rules lawyering' when I left school. No job I've ever held has actually functioned like that. The closest I've been is working at a large accounting firm, but even there most people had a mutual understanding that the 'book' (a lot more official than this post) was just a CYA fluff document invented to keep certain people busy and certain other people happy.