If you can’t see it, it’s either willful ignorance or a chasm too wide for me.

Best of luck, you’re going to need it

I have never once had an issue with this.

Know why? Because I work with responsible adults. Once you start treating adults like little kids with no agency, you’re opening the floodgates for the control schemes which finally start to affect you personally.

What could your employer do that would overstep your personal boundaries? By handwaving this one away, you’re enabling them to cross your line later. You must see that, yes? It’s clear to everyone else.

You are not doing yourself any service, even if you think you’re just “sitting this one out.”

Career haters just love to shit on anyone who has a preference, and thinks they can boil down an entire group of population with a single pithy comment

You sound like a career hater. We did this ad nauseum in 2007, grow up it’s embarrassing for you