This is my reaction. Who cares? It’s not even interesting. It’s bog standard CEO behavior. People think this is funny?
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The company has finally (really) issued a statement. You will all be glad to know that the Board of Directors has started a formal investigation.
Agree. Wouldn’t it be funny if the whole thing was a scam that will now get exposed? They did just get $100M in funding so probably not.
*Elizabeth Holmes is frantically taking notes*
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what are you talking about you know too many executives like this guy? You know absolutely nothing about this guy, except that he was cheating
Historically, HR was the pink ghetto and in most companies big enough to matter, the only CEO subordinate who was a) female, and b) of sufficient rank and income to interest a CEO was the HR chief by whatever title.
Move along; nothing to see there i your prior jobs. Or in the instant case of this thread.
Aren’t they all the same thing?
You may ask yourself, why are these two going to a Coldplay concert? Who would chose to go?
You may not know, a lot of big companies get tickets to shows, concerts, sporting events, to use an employee incentives.
And no one wanted the tickets!
So the CEO says, hey, I’ll take Kristin. Maybe she’ll think I’m hip, and I can get laid.
And Kristin says to herself, “I hate Coldplay like any thinking person, but I’ll go with Andy, because anything to keep the relationship going. What could go wrong?”
And the rest is history.
In truth I don’t even know that for certain, but he APPEARS to be a CEO cheating with a subordinate employee. If that’s not enough evidence for me to align him with the other CEOs I’ve KNOWN who carry on similarly, I apologize to you for offending your “innocent until proven guilty” maxim, but we’re in the court of public opinion here.
I’m not offended. I couldn’t care less about this guy. I’m just amazed at how many CEO’s you apparently know
I don’t exactly know any CEOs but the ones that were in charge of the large places where I worked were all soulless pricks.
I like my CEO, but it’s a nonprofit.
I don’t know many CEOs per se, but I know plenty of rich men who cheat on their wives and the wives who quietly bear it.
To quote my father in law: “It’s a family tradition!”
CEOs function at the top of a dog-eat-dog environment, and a CEO caught is a CEO stupid. The story of Harry Stonecipher is instructive: the board of Boeing (many of whom were undoubtedly enjoying the favors of women besides their wives) brought him back from retirement to pump balloon juice into shareholder value, and that done and his services no longer required, produced hotel records of liaisons with an underling (both in the org chart version of underling and in the literal underlingus sense). Stonecipher was hoist on his own viagra’d petard.
This is pretty funny (50 seconds…wait for it):
The Phillies take a jab at the Coldplay affair with their own version
From the BBC:
A US tech company has placed its CEO on leave after a big screen embrace at a Coldplay concert - rumoured to involve two of its employees - went viral.
“Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding,” the statement read. “Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability. The Board of Directors has initiated a formal investigation into this matter and we will have additional details to share very shortly.”
“We expect our leader not to get caught.”
This feelsl like it should have been a “See video clip, chuckle, move on with life” thing instead of the saturation it’s had for the last couple of days.
I don’t listen to them but apparently they’re still selling out 50-70k seat stadiums within minutes so all the “hurr hurr, Coldplay” remarks feel like a classic case of crying all the way to the bank on the band’s part.
A lot of the “saturation” I’ve seen has been people riffing on it with clever memes. That doesn’t mean it Matters, any more than the Zoom Cat Lawyer or Bernie Sanders wearing mittens Mattered.