I was commenting regarding my own workplace contrarian personality.
It also doesn’t have to be so obvious.
I work as a purchaser for a very small manufacturing company and you’d might be surprised how much parroting of our CEO is done by our workers. I’ll be on the phone with one of them (who are located in NV) and they’ll complain about something (taxes, logistics, CA laws or gas prices), which sounds exactly like something our CEO has said recently.
I’m generally suspicious because I know that my employer does NOT have my best interest in mind. Most workers are brainwashed into believing the opposite.