Dear Bureaucrat, my job wants me to lie
All. The. Time. Legal paperwork is &quot;it&#x27;s just standard required legal blahblahblah, just sign it&quot; right up until there&#x27;s a dispute, and then it might as well have been signed in blood.<p>A job I worked at required that I acknowledge having received and read a pamphlet on sexual harassment in the workplace. My understanding is that it is a requirement of the state of CA that employers distribute such a pamphlet. The state even has a stock pamphlet that fulfills the requirement, though employers are free to substitute their own. My employer wanted me to acknowledge that I&#x27;d received the one via the HR website … except the link caused 500 Internal Server Errors.<p>I reported this, and even noted that if the link just goes to the standard pamphlet [and I linked to that] that we could consider the defect in the website &quot;cured&quot; and I could sign and life could move on. That part of the message got ignored, of course; the people responsible for the HR site are like &quot;well it works for us?&quot;, and of course there&#x27;s still pressure to sign a statement that I&#x27;ve read this thing.<p>All of that after I explicitly asked for any and all paperwork that would require my signature <i>up front</i> before becoming an employee. (This was, of course, not included in what I was given prior to starting.)