> "How was your weekend" is not the same as spending a couple hours on a non-work related website.
If it takes you "a couple hours" to complete https://www.teamblind.com/sign-up, that's on you.
> There wouldn't even be an article about this had any of this occurred after hours or on breaks.
You can't just make shit up to win an argument; there's absolutely no way of telling whether or not these emails were generated during breaks. All we know is Matt intercepted them. They could've signed up outside of work hours, during breaks, on vacation, etc. and Matt would still have been receiving them.
If it's anything like most other tech companies, breaks aren't even formal, let alone tracked/timestamped.