Recently joined a private school. After signing the contract, orientation and first week Director held a meeting and announced teachers weren't allowed to be friends, make groups or meet outside the school. I thought it was ridiculous and how would they even enforce that.
Summer break, no students are coming to school. Teachers are preparing material for the rest of the term. We decided to sit together during lunch, it was a regular half an hour lunch, we moved the desks in one of the classrooms to make a long table, switched the AC on in the room (avoided turning on multiple ACs by sitting together) and everyone shared food. Immediately after lunch there's a message on the WhatsApp group with a picture of us taken from a surveillance camera (there are cameras in every classroom to monitor the classes during sessions). The message was something along the lines of, teachers are not allowed to move desks, talk about their personal lives or talk about anything other than school work on the premises.
All the AC remotes for the classrooms were locked the next day. Any classes with chairs big enough for teachers to sit were declared out of bounds. We were told to take lunch at the work stations or in the nursery classes (with little plastic chairs where it is impossible to sit for more than 10 minutes).
The next week I met a co-worker who I knew over a decade ago. We were friends as children and I had moved away. We talked for 15 minutes, but both of us completed our assigned tasks for the day and did some extra clerical work. The next day, I was told to not work in the same classroom as her anymore. I was invited to the office next door to the director's to work alone.