I feel like many HN'ers have been in this situation.

I was once in a confedential "back out" of a system. There was some shared code base with the other company. One of our devs made a comment that was something like "Reversing Migration Script" in the code.

In less than an hour from that commit(I didn't know at the time) I was in stuck in a firestorm WTF DID YOU DO battle between the two CEO's of the companies. It turns out that the other company was ACTIVELY spying for such terms in the code so they could react if we tried to leave. It was going to be an honest non renewal at the end of the contract so not even anything shady. I didn't find out till later about how they were spying out so there was this huge witch hunt about who was the rat and such. It was awful.

It seems this level of sociopathy is just the norm these days and I'm just an old fuddy duddy doing regular honest work without having a Machiavellian scheme running in parallel no wonder places only want to hire 20yo's /s /sorta.