Meh, it worked at Google for a really long time, and only broke down around 50,000 employees. "Spend money like it's your own" was literally in the T&E policy a

Meh, it worked at Google for a really long time, and only broke down around 50,000 employees. "Spend money like it's your own" was literally in the T&E policy and people understood it to mean "be reasonable, but also don't be miserable." I agree some amount of clear rules is good and keeps you from guessing, but the article says that the policy goes on to cover those, so what's the problem? Not every employee-employer relationship is adversarial, no matter how much HN wants to believe it is. (Although, I grant you, beyond a certain size it tends to become adversarial.)