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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 782466" data-attributes="member: 7394">I believe I've already replied to this criticism. Can you say troll?Too many companies have this incorrect belief that they own their employees just because they give them a paycheck. I've never tolerated that philosophy and I never will. There are at least two companies in the past 10 years that considered me an asset that I've left because they had the wrong approach to dealing with their employees. Specifically, one was because of mandatory meatings regularly called after hours or on days off with no more than a couple day's notice, and another was because of a generally hostile attitude towards all the employees by the management.Personally, I generally choose to be respectful towards my co-workers, but aside from what the company must do to conform with law, I refuse to have any extra degree of "respect" imposed on me. I probably wouldn't read Maxim at work, but I believe I should have the right to do so on my time if that's what I choose to do. Monitoring reading material is just a way a company has of repressing their employees. I don't tolerate that.FYI, I work for a company that was recently nominated as the best company to work for in Western Washington. One of my co-workers does read Maxim at his desk, and even keeps the past few issues on hand. I don't see it as a big deal.</blockquote>