> You have a lot of cautionary advice here which would be good for people to have awareness, but I have to say it comes across as very confrontational advice ro

> You have a lot of cautionary advice here which would be good for people to have awareness, but I have to say it comes across as very confrontational advice rooted in an us vs them culture that may be very much influenced by where you worked and what you went through. Yup, but I think OP's advice should be the baseline from which you relax these things as you learn that level of caution is not warranted. The business world as a whole has a bad enough reputation in regards to individuals that caution is the correct tact to start with.