Workplace comedy meets corporate horror—again. In Part 2, Under NDA serves up two more head shaking tales of control obsessed leadership and morale in free fall. Former tech exec turned Code TV (https://codetv.dev) creator Jason joins the mic to discuss workplace control run amok.

Stories in this episode:

1. “Why I Left the Startup” – A product manager promised “zero red tape” arrives in a Notion jungle of templates, mandatory rewrites, and Slack policing, right down to bug ticket titles.
2. “The Priorities Were the Problem” – An engineering manager celebrates a freshly agreed roadmap until execs change course 48 hours later (and again the next week, and the next…). ICs scramble, weekends vaporize, and Jason’s blood pressure hits new highs.

Along the way we unpack leadership FOMO, template tyranny, and why great managers know when to back off and let teams cook.

Make sure to also listen to Episode 3 – “Control Issues Everywhere” (Part 1).

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Workplace comedy meets corporate horror. In “Control Issues Everywhere, Part 1,” Under NDA dishes up two jaw dropping tales of bad boss behavior, toxic management fails, and HR nightmares.

Stories in this episode:

1. “Consistently Unreasonable” – Meet the manager who decided that 5:30 a.m. (!) was the perfect time for a mandatory, cameras on weekly meeting…for a totally local team with zero emergencies. (Spoiler: the whole thing goes off the rails, and the cameras do, too.)
   
   
   
2. “The Manager Who Faked a Data Breach” – Think phishing drills are harmless? Try a newbie boss who impersonates the CEO, dangles a $100 carrot, and then publicly shames the click-happy victims on a leaderboard.

Sprinkled between the stories: spicy takes on grind culture, quiet-quitting survival tips, and the kind of unfiltered banter that’ll make your next Zoom call feel tame.

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A wise woman once said- “no career has ever been made at a corporate event, but many a career has been lost…”

So what happens when a brand-new hire dazzles and then detonates before Day 1 even arrives? And how do you handle an HR crusade that suddenly outlaws every hug, even though it’s part of company culture?

This week, game-industry insider Andrew K. joins us to discuss these “too much, too soon” scenarios. We tease out where the line between healthy enthusiasm and instant career suicide really lies, and Andrew shares the playbook he’d use as a manager:

• spotting the red flags before an off-site implodes,
• salvaging culture without swinging the policy hammer, and
• coaching teams to read the room, without killing the vibe.

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