I pondered the issue of a NDA a couple months ago and someone (might have been you) pointed out that Trump's not working in a Corporate environment now, it's Government, where sunshine and whistle-blower laws are in effect.
Might have been. I’ve worked in the corporate world and had to sign NDA’s but it was pretty much to protect intellectual property and trade secrets. One of the companies I worked for, a manufacturer definitely had some proprietary formulations and manufacturing processes that were important for them to protect from competitors. But this same company, UK owned had a whistleblower hotline where employees could report all sorts of things they felt were either against written company policy or illegal or unethical and supposedly were protected against any type of retribution. Working as the Payroll/HRIS manager but being in the HR department I knew of a couple of complaints filed.
I thought about filing one myself once, the president of the company had the company write a check to a local politician’s re-election campaign which was not only against company and corporate policy but also illegal in PA as we were a corporation. The politician was actually honest enough to return the check. But then the president replaced it with his own personal check but then got reimbursed for it via an expense report.
I debated it in my mind, especially since the politician was a conservative Republican but then again our president was big nasty jerk. I even talked to my boss about it but she advised me it was probably best for my career to just ignore and hope that one of our auditors caught it. And I had plausible deniability because even as I processed expense report payments via payroll, I had no role in reviewing or approving them and it was the CFO who supposedly reviewed and signed off on the president’s expense reports, my only role in the process was to process the payments.
We also had our sales reps and some others like some in engineering sign non-compete agreements but our labor law attorney advised us that they were pretty much not even worth the paper they were written on and we rarely if ever tried to enforce them.