I work at a big tech company (not Google) and this flagrant contempt for the legal hold is absolutely shocking to me. We're also under a legal hold. It has noth

I work at a big tech company (not Google) and this flagrant contempt for the legal hold is absolutely shocking to me. We're also under a legal hold. It has nothing to do with anything relating to my work. I will never have anything responsive to any kind of discovery request, I don't even work on a product team, only infra. The company is preserving everything that could even hypothetically be responsive to some future discovery request. If I need to reimage my work laptop, I can't, current company guidance is to return the laptop to IT and get a new machine because they need to preserve any data on the laptop. Email is being archived, there's regular communications about making sure everyone from top to bottom knows to preserve anything tangentially related to the legal hold. During yearly compliance training one thing that was stressed was not to mark anything A/C Priv unless it actually was. They made sure to call out that including someone from legal in an email chain does not make it A/C Priv and not to try anything like that. At the time I thought it was silly that the training went over such obvious things as "don't commit white collar crimes" in essence but apparently that's not how they do things at Google. I just can't wrap my head around why any of the many different people involved could ever look at what they were doing and think "yes, this is fine, I should continue this behavior". WTAF.