Pet your dog, put your kids to bed. Water the garden. Eat dinner with the fam.
It’s not all that hard.
(It’s really not very often, no sex is happening in your own bed. That’s just something cheaters say to justify themselves. Barring disease or disability. Which still does not make it right to cheat on a spouse)
Ah, but that’s not true, romantic relationships between employees are fine. (Source: am in one. In fact marriage.) Romantic relationships between a superior and a subordinate are not fine, because like @Spice_Weasel said there is a possibility of “quid pro quo” where you (the boss) might tie either preferential treatment or the lack of negative treatment to sexual favors. And the head of HR reports to the CEO. Also, as Ask a Manager says, how could anyone at the company trust that HR would handle reports of sexual harassment properly? What if it, oh, involved the CEO?
Random story: I knew someone at a smaller company whose husband worked on a project under her, which the company let them do because they were both known to be very rational, level-headed people, and also she didn’t write his performance reviews (so she wasn’t technically his boss even though he reported to her). Even then she said it was not a great situation – and after about a month, even though she continued to be the head of the project, she asked her own boss to be the person that her husband reported to, because their relationship was leaking into the project – in the sense of, her telling him what to do all the time is a reasonable dynamic for boss/subordinate but not really for spouses.
Romantic relationships typically aren’t prohibited so long as there is no reporting relationship or discrepancy of power between the two parties. People date and even get married in the companied I’ve worked at all the time.
What companies don’t want is a conflict of interest or some implied quid pro quo that can happen when say a Vice President is dating a junior person. That is to say, someone gets the best projects because they’re blowing their boss or they feel they can’t leave the relationship without damaging their career.
In this case it wouldn’t work, because there is no other department/company. However, the other thing is that they lied about their relationship. And as the relationship is/was between a superior and a subordinate, the superior lying about it, as in not bringing the relationship to the attention of the board of directors, is the character flaw.
Yes. I am sure the guy is a scumbag and the company ludicrously shady, but this is the professional norm he violated (in this case; he may have been involved in all sorts of Elizabeth Holmes stuff in general).
I’m pretty sure that the company is legit. They provide a service for small companies. Larger companies do it in house. There have been no allegations that the company is a scam nor do they claim to manufacture something physical. The comparison to Elizabeth Holmes is baseless.
My wife finds the endless variations on the theme amusing. Personally I find the original incident funny but could do without all the photoshop and AI versions. The wife also was obsessed with all the “Bernie in mittens” memes. But I still love her.
That said - is that Heidi Klum in the worm outfit?
For me it is kind of funny that lying is considered a character flaw when at the same time the President of this country is lying that the beams are bending.
Whether Brigitte Macron’s reaction has anything to do with adultery is not clear from the video. I think Europeans are not more mature or blasé about extramarital relationships, they are just more pragmatic and realistic.
It’s riduculous to think, given human nature that any nationality makes you more likely or not to be in an extramarital affair.
Or a nasty divorce. With all that brings.
Rich, poor…with or without children.
Cheating is never good. Whether it’s your math test in 3rd grade or in your adult life, sleeping around.
I could see a culture treating it more like a speeding ticket than vehicular homicide. Sure, it’s better if you don’t, but it’s not going to break up your marriage or anything. [I should add, that’s not my view, or my preference for my marriage. But I’m fine if others want to live that way.]
That’s how I see it too. It’s possible that Andy Bryon’s marriage was only on paper anyway and his wife is using this opportunity to get a financially favorable divorce. Since her husband lost his job, he can no longer maintain their previous standard of living. On the other hand, it is also possible that the wife has a lover as well and does not find the situation so dramatic. Is an extramarital affair cheating? That depends very much on the situation of the married couple.
That’s the very definition of cheating. If a couple is in an open relationship, then it’s not an affair. If his wife knew that he was canoodling with another woman do you think he would have ducked under the seat the way he did?