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For the same reason that, today, you're not considered a national security risk if you are openly gay, but you still are if you are closeted and trying to hide it. You can't easily blackmail an Elon type who has no shame and whose sex and drug addictions are part of his public reputation. Jensen presented himself as a faithful family man.

Also, if you cannot comprehend that there are issues of consent when it comes to having a sexual relationship with someone whose career you can destroy with no consequences, then I seriously hope you never get a management position.

Say your boss has two reports, you and someone else. You are the same gender as the someone else. They are sleeping with the someone else. They then promote the someone else while not promoting you. Now you have to ask yourself: do I need to have sex with the boss to get promoted? This type of situation is why most companies will fire you if you’re sleeping with someone you’re writing the performance reviews for. Also, all of Jensens reports now have a path to sue Nvidia for unfair treatment, he put the company at huge risk.

You can ingratiate yourself to your boss without having sex. I have seen people doing non-sexual favors to then successfully get promoted. Not saying that sex with subordinate is OK, but that you have to ban all kinds of personal favors.

Lmao. No, one of those is not like the other. At all. Sounds like someone wasn’t paying attention during the harassment training. Basically you have a right to a workspace free from sexual harassment. The behavior described above is either explicitly harassment or getting close enough to it for people to get uncomfortable (and you have a right to not be made uncomfortable due to inappropriate/sexual work situations.)

You don’t have a right to a workspace free of social discomfort or pressure though. Feeling some pressure to bring them a donut isn’t protected in the same way unless it’s becoming harassment.

I was not talking about bringing donuts. How about cooking especially for the boss and getting promoted as a result? This is not a sexual favor, does that mean it is a-ok? It should be banned because an employee is getting promoted not because of business outcomes they produced but because of their skills in kissing ass. Should other employees have to compete with this? If not, why not ban all personal favors, not just sexual ones?

That was the policy at the company he runs. It's hypocritical, if nothing else (and it is much else).

Are you really trying to use musk as an example of normal social behavior that we should accept (encourage…?)