This should only apply for large companies. Only in large companies do you end up employing large numbers of idiots. And only then do you need the rules that a

This should only apply for large companies. Only in large companies do you end up employing large numbers of idiots. And only then do you need the rules that a minority go crazy with. In my experience, the cure is usually worse than the disease. Give someone a rulebook that they can use to justify the awful inclinations of their personality, and they will spend 99% of their energy doing this. Small companies manage this better in my experience - outside of the guy who came from LARGE TECH COMPANY and spends all day writing lists and telling people how they do things at LARGE TECH COMPANY - because they will get rid of someone who is being disruptive rather than try to move them somewhere else. HR in large companies tends to be far softer. Btw, my point is that all this applies to social activism too. We need rules because eventually someone will do something dumb. The rules will get taken too far. And that small minority ends up making almost everyone else unhappy. Incidentally: there is a probably a parallel with this forum. Of any internet forum, this place is probably the most humourless and exacting when it comes to people quoting rules (often by number) to each other. The monkeys will take over the zoo 100% of the time in these cases. I have actually even had interviews like this. I remember one particularly funny one was for a front-end role where I was witness to a lecture from a "senior dev" on the topic of: why X technology/pattern is "wrong"?