It's a defense tactic. They are confronted with potentially upsetting threats to their hate world views and so they immediately shut down and pivot to comfortable territory.
Remote worker with a very secured laptop. Came back from vacation to a BSOD, and after an entire weekend of teams video calls from my phone with our support team, they gave up trying to remediate since our security was so strict. Ended up getting issued a new laptop overnight, and sent mine back for reimaging. I just smiled and sipped coffee, while browsing lemmy on my system76 personal linux laptop. You literally cannot do anything off company resources, of which i had none for 3 days.
Yoshi P and Soken, I'm sold.