Having his wife know is not the same as having his board of directors, his other relatives, his co-workers, his golfing buddies, his investors, or other people in his life know. Maybe he didn’t want some OTHER girlfriend/mistress to find out she wasn’t his only outside interest.
My local newspaper has really been milking this.
On Saturday, the headline was:
Coldplay at Camp Randall Stadium tonight: Madison concert is first since Kiss Cam scandal that led to Astronomer CEO resigning
On Sunday:
Chris Martin warns fans may be on Jumbotron at Coldplay’s Madison show
On Monday (today):
No Jumbotron scandal, just great pop spectacle, from Coldplay at Camp Randall in Madison
That’s hard-hitting journalism right there.
Maybe. It’s certainly “news you can use” for a certain portion of the audience. 
So…cheating. On whomever.
He was wrong. If he wanted it kept secret, from any of those entities, why the heck was he even in the venue.
Dumb. And dumber.
The reason he resigned? Because there’s no excuse that works.
In a society that has decided that widespread publicity about an affair is a career ending offense, his career got ended.
Nothing more to see here.
Those CEO dickheads are a boy’s club and are never unemployed for long. He’ll be some kind of consultant. It may be a tough sell for the head of HR
Yes, that’s probably the sad part of the whole story: who will give the head of HR a new job now that she’s known all over the internet? And she didn’t cheat on anyone, she’s not married. She should have reported the relationship, but her boss didn’t either and now she is in the least enviable position.
I think she was married or at least in a relationship. She had divorced a couple years ago but several months ago bought a house with a different man.
Presuming that she knew he was married: she’s still cheating, because she’s part of his cheating.
(Also presuming it wasn’t an open relationship, and she’d confirmed that with the wife.)
That means both of them were in normal relationships with other partners and were keeping their love affair secret. But then it was extremely stupid of them to go to a public concert together. Well, they won’t make that mistake again.
It’s a matter of perspective: I would say that his marriage is none of her business. Whether he is cheating, whether he no longer wants his marriage, or whether he is just having a little fling on the side is entirely his business. But people can view this differently.
That’s not necessarily what it means. They could be in open relationships which is very common. We have no idea (yet) what the deal was.
I would say it’s none of her business unless she’s having sex with him. But that makes it her business, because it makes her his wife’s business. (And also, very likely, makes her bodily fluids his wife’s bodily fluids; though to me that’s not the major part of the issue.)
If you drive a car for the bank robber, knowing that they’re robbing the bank and using your transportation for the purpose, you’re committing a crime even if you don’t go into the bank. If you have sex with a married person, knowing that they’re married and not having confirmed with their spouse that it’s OK, then you’re committing adultery. IMO, anyway. I can see your argument, though I don’t agree with it.
We will probably never know how the two are doing or what deal they had. They are out of the headlines and we hear nothing more about them. I wish them all the best after the shock they experienced over the weekend!
I believe they were from NY and the concert was in Boston. Neither of them were well known outside of their company. The only normal way they would have been discovered is if someone from the company was at the concert, and even then, the likelihood of it making back to anyone that cared was terribly small. I believe this only made it to the public because someone happened to be recording the jumbotron on her cell phone. It was just a perfect storm of bad breaks for them. Sure, in hindsight, it was stupid. But they weren’t taking any risks that millions of people before haven’t done without trouble.
Romantic relationships between employees being prohibited is not a universal truth here in the United States. My company has no such policy nor do you even need to inform HR if you begin such a relationship. The only policy we have related to that is you can’t be married to a coworker if you work under the same director and we won’t hire anyone related to someone in HR.
They aren’t prohibited at almost all companies. There are rules about not dating a subordinate which has been said over and over and over and the reasons why have also been said many times already.
Not every company has a policy on that kind of thing. Mine doesn’t.
K. Thx.