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I finally got my user off the shadow ban. It is a throw-away account. Thank you Daniel!

I realize this is a low-signal post, but I'm still here, unable to sleep, feeling utterly disrespected as a cysec professional.

A few days ago I was a valued member of the team, now upper management is using fear and intimidation to keep a semblance of normality for as long as possible: You want to go home? We won't have you back. I would walk away gladly if I could do it without affecting my team and my employer.

We have all the conditions required for secure remote work, in fact it would be a tighter environment in many ways. Apparently it's too difficult to manage the outsourced resources.

This is why we need the state of emergency declared. To keep people like those from putting more people are risk.

Is there anyone else going through something like this?

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You are learning an important lesson the hard way.

Never be loyal to a corporation. Corporations are not loyal to you (or other employees) in spite of how it may seem sometimes. How could they be loyal? They are not human.

I first heard this from a CTO at my first dev job when he was encouraging me to come along with an upcoming merger. I said something like "well I want to be loyal to company..." he immediately cut me off and said "never be loyal to a company -- a company will not be loyal to you." (paraphrasing)

Since then, I have witnessed his assertion come true many times.

Save your loyalty for people. We would like to think that the bonds made with teammates will be shared by the company, they won't.

> I would walk away gladly if I could do it without affecting my team and my employer.

If this is really the case, and you can survive without this job, you should consider walking. Your employer has demonstrated that they do not care about you or others on your team who are being pushed to continue showing up. And your employer, with this kind of approach, does not deserve any of your loyalty.

It's bad that some employers are still pushing people to show up for non-essential work. It's an entirely different level when people are showing up symptomatic, and still being pushed to show up.

Edit: I meant to add, that you'd probably be supporting your team by walking if you can. The more people who walk, the more clear it becomes that the employer is in an untenable position.

At this point, you should look out for yourself - why worry about affecting your employer if they’re the ones putting you at risk?

If you have enough saved up, quit and be safer. That will signal to your team and they can make their own adult choices.

If you think you have corona already, take sick leave.

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