In case anyone thinks assistants serving others can't have some incredibly dystopian consequences, The Star Chamber podcast has an incredible 2-part series, * With Friends Like These ...* describing a case that boggles the mind.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVb7__ZlHI0 (key timestamps: 31:45 and 34:3)

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZvQGI5dstM (key timestamp: 22:05)

If you're like "Woah, this seems kinda disconnected, I'm missing context..." Uh, yeah, there's so much context.

Here's the link that most critical bit in Part 2: https://youtu.be/vZvQGI5dstM?feature=shared&t=1325

And if you listen to the whole thing, here's the almost innocuous WSJ article:

Here's the WSJ article that put it into the press: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/workplace-har...