The attitude you share always strikes me as a business cover your ass move, implemented as cultism (don't talk to outsiders) and marketed as professionalism. Y

The attitude you share always strikes me as a business cover your ass move, implemented as cultism (don't talk to outsiders) and marketed as professionalism. You make it out like the only acceptable options are "keep job, don't talk" "quit, don't talk", or "sue". Which doesn't really reflect real life, people are not robots. It's just a set of options that minimize risk for the employer by keeping the potential labor pool under-informed unless you have a legally actionable gripe that you can afford both financially and emotionally to pursue legally. And asking for them to reveal their identity is just a way to attach a reputation to them. That way the job market can punish them for breaking an unwritten rule against attaching a reputation to a company.