i remember once 'expressing myself' as a 'really cool, open company' -- sf office -- ten or so years ago -- was like some internal blog on our hiring process, w

i remember once 'expressing myself' as a 'really cool, open company' -- sf office -- ten or so years ago -- was like some internal blog on our hiring process, which i thought was too much, and i had just gone thru it. i got a lot of backlash, and strong -- like i had just skinned someone alive and hung them up in the office, School of Americas-style. it was pretty stupid of me, but i guess i was kind of like 'f it' and also bought into the company hype a bit. i prob said some word or thought that would have gotten me a reprimand here at HN, too. companies are near-perfect totalitarian regimes, so the idea of 'being able to express yourself' there is pretty ridiculous, imo. all the fired and harassed Starbucks ex/employees know this, amazon unionizing employees, google anti-war employees, etc.