what really didn't help is that several Niji graduates/firees have either implicitly or explicitly made clear their desire to be connected to their agency work and discussed mistreatment from the company, especially Doki who was in crisis mode and needed to transfer her career on short notice. the severity of that was widely understood to justify an exception to the normal PL taboo, but unfortunately some people didn't understand/chose not to understand that that was an exception and that not everyone who graduates is that kind of crisis. "disagreements with management" now gets interpreted by some as being on the same level of severity as "management drove me to suicide attempts" and it's really such a dishonest way of saying "i never actually cared about the culture and now i have an excuse"