> To me, this immediately puts you at a position of distrust with your employer. Well yes, it does. After all, the employer doesn't trust me either, otherwise

> To me, this immediately puts you at a position of distrust with your employer. Well yes, it does. After all, the employer doesn't trust me either, otherwise we wouldn't have a whole industry of performance monitoring tools, time tracking systems, access control solutions, etc. You cannot expect one side to pretend we're all a big family while the other does not. > I highly doubt most management teams see workers as "easily replaceable" especially considering how hard it is to get workers these days. Then go ahead and chat with a few Amazon warehouse workers or Starbucks Baristas or Uber drivers. Or Amazon developers for that matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31789381 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31789381