Agree.  I would definitely not want to work at the kind of place you mention (it actually sounds a little bit like modern academia in the liberal arts).  But third-hand information aside, I can&#x27;t imagine a context in which someone would feel it&#x27;s okay to act like this at a brand new workplace.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t call the discussion here histrionic either.  I think it&#x27;s a progressive dialogue of really differing opinions, which I find are illuminating issues I hadn&#x27;t thought of.  Also most people here are pretty intelligent and would be treating it like a thought experiment, as we know we do not have all the information at hand.