[liquidise]

God help whoever received that. I won't comment on the perversions in private life, but i hope that was not sent to a coworker. Sending such a message to a coworker, especially if you are in a managerial position above them is… reprehensible to the point of permanent ejection from any respectable company.

[village-idiot]

Exactly. If that was a private partner and done with consent, it’s fine, even if I personally would never consider such an arrangement for my own life.

If he’s gotten into a consenting relationship with his subordinates, then that’s kinda skeezy, since one has to wonder how much workplace power dynamics come into play. There’s a damn good reason why HR tends to clamp down on workplace dating, it creates a whole host of issues.

If he was using his power to push that, or springing it suddenly on coworkers and subordinates, then he needs to be blacklisted ASAP.

[samstave]

Ironically, HR people I have known in the past have been some of the worst offenders in this area...

Think of Zenefits, for example, an HR tools tech company which had to literally create an official policy stopping people from having sex in stairwells at the office.

[blattimwind]

> Think of Zenefits, for example, an HR tools tech company which had to literally create an official policy stopping people from having sex in stairwells at the office.

dev1: busy?

dev2: coding wizard for "no workplace dating" policies

dev1: wanna bang?

dev2: sure

[village-idiot]

I’m sure the chat logs from that company are very embarrassing.

[lozaning]

I mean this is the same Zenefits that according to friends that worked there only had 1 chair for every 1.5 employees. Everything I hear about their boom time was reminiscent of an old school frat party shit show.

[onetimemanytime]

... reprehensible to the point of permanent ejection from any respectable company.

Courts will make any company "respectable," whether they want to or not.

As a matter of principle, people should enter such agreements if the want to and able to give consent. Of course, this doesn't make it right to send such email to the 18 year interne that started last week.