> It was three hours of nearly-continuous meetings, all with the same subject of how bad it was to email a higher-up without first emailing every single person in-between first.

There is a famous scene, in the movie Office Space (1999), where the low level coder is constantly harassed about an idiotic memo because he forgot a cover sheet on his TPS reports.. he is reminded of this 3 times and then some by other people..

It's unreal how the "modern" corporate environment, remains the same as it was in early 90s..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLUidiYm0w