> Virtually all of the rights we learn about in grade school are suspended in the workplace.
Virtually none of them are suspended in the workplace. When you're at work, though, you are on someone else's private property and so some of your rights are constrained (just as some of the rights of people visiting your home are constrained while they're there). This is because there are competing rights involved, and it's logically impossible for everyone to retain their full sets of rights in those circumstances.
But, as you say, if the restrictions on your freedom are more greater than you can tolerate, you can quit. If no workplace gives you the amount of latitude you need, then you can work for yourself.
But, at the core, we live in a society with other people, and that inherently comes with certain restraints on behavior.
Virtually none of them are suspended in the workplace. When you're at work, though, you are on someone else's private property and so some of your rights are constrained (just as some of the rights of people visiting your home are constrained while they're there). This is because there are competing rights involved, and it's logically impossible for everyone to retain their full sets of rights in those circumstances.
But, as you say, if the restrictions on your freedom are more greater than you can tolerate, you can quit. If no workplace gives you the amount of latitude you need, then you can work for yourself.
But, at the core, we live in a society with other people, and that inherently comes with certain restraints on behavior.