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For what it's worth: the company (HR in particular) logs everything you do, so that in the unlikely case they need to justify firing you, they have ammunition. Even if it's unrelated to the real reason.

This is especially true of companies with sensitive contracts, data, or relationships where they have all kinds of reasons to want to cover their butts. They may intentionally ignore you doing something you shouldn't, just to silently build a case and keep it in a back pocket.



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