If any Silicon valley company did this HN will have a party roasting it.
These days I'm convinced that the usual "The government can't do anything right!" pro-Trump guys are not saying it as a warning or complaint: it's an aspirational quote for them.
Everyone here has had management with overly tight 'you must track your time' and 'you can only work on XYZ tasks' (normally where XYZ is capitalizable or billable) requirements and we all know how that turns out.
These days I'm convinced that the usual "The government can't do anything right!" pro-Trump guys are not saying it as a warning or complaint: it's an aspirational quote for them.