Right, hence my comment. I wouldn't be worried at all. It feels like a different working culture (or country).

It seems like one of those cultural things, like how Europeans and Americans have inverse views on the severity of sex and violence.

I think you may have even misinterpreted my comment as me thinking I'm somehow "above the rules" or whatever, even. It's not that. It's that it would have literally never crossed my mind that my continued employment would be related to how I behave in relation to this document.

In my personal life I left behind that sort of 'rules lawyering' when I left school. No job I've ever held has actually functioned like that. The closest I've been is working at a large accounting firm, but even there most people had a mutual understanding that the 'book' (a lot more official than this post) was just a CYA fluff document invented to keep certain people busy and certain other people happy.

I also wonder this when looking at the "Workplace" Stack Exchange site or at Reddit's /r/legaladvice. So much CYA stuff, "you must collect a paper trail", "email yourself your recollection of the situation, so it's time stamped", how quickly you can become a liability for HR and how much companies are scared of getting sued for, to me, frivolous reasons.

Sure this also exists in corporate Europe, but it seems America is more "robotic" in this respect. Well, they'd just call it being professional I guess.

Eh, many of the questions in Workplace are about FUBAR situations. It makes sense to take extreme measures in those cases.

Sure, but I think that is itself the cultural thing. I'll take your word for it that some people experience this, but the idea that anyone would fear being fired for missing fiddly details of a document like this is completely foreign to me. I've never seen a code review checklist that people followed even 75% of.

> I'll take your word for it that some people experience this, but the idea that anyone would fear being fired for missing fiddly details of a document like this is completely foreign to me.

There is currently a very public example of this going on at Stack Exchange over a code of conduct that was still in review status.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/336526/stack-overfl...

Yes, that's a good example of what's completely foreign to me. I don't have time to trawl through all the details of the story you linked, but it's incomprehensible to me why Stack Exchange would do what's described here, and I've multiple times made negative comments about a proposed set of rules without facing or fearing punishment.

> I don't have time to trawl through all the details of the story you linked

Having done so myself out of morbid curiosity (and a sense of "there must be another side of the story that we're not getting"[0]) I would not suggest it. It's a rabbit hole that, as far as I can tell, leads back to the post I linked as the most accurate summary of the situation.

[0]: If there is, I have yet to find it after hours and hours of time wasted.