How do you reconcile "love contracts" [0]?

[0] https://www.woodsrogers.com/insights/publications/this-valen...

I've never worked at any company that used them or heard about them. Instead we take yearly training saying that even flirting with the idea is a cause for immediate termination.

Your companies had zero tolerance for consensual relationships at the office? Not even married couples? Possible, but the exception because that really constrains your talent base.

Good idea about stats. Please share what you find.

Do you suppose Jensen had a love contract with his subordinate, when the breaking of the news of their extramarital relationship led to a 20% drop in stock and the removal of Jensen as CEO?

You're asking a leading question with flawed premises and assumptions.

1. The subordinate story broke yesterday. The stock dropped 12% (not 20) and recovered half.

2. But for the spy/export control subversion, do you think a CEO would be stepping down for banging a co-worker? LOL...

If you go that route you can extrapolate to some absurd degree. Basically any relationship with a power imbalance becomes sexual harassment.

Congrats you just figured out divorce laws and alimony from first principles.

Wow you are mere inches from understanding the concept of sexual harassment. Keep going!

So is Huang only allowed to have sex with Lisa Su or something? But even then Nvidia dwarfs AMD in power.

There is always Elon I guess…

100% of his relationships have been with nvidia subordinates and business partners. You realize there are more women on the planet right?

> 100% of his relationships

*that we know of

You mean infantilising adults and denying their agency to feel better about yourself.

Obviously it depends from case to case and there are certain lines that shouldn’t be crossed but otherwise consenting adults should be free to make their own decisions.

You do understand the issue of mixing consent with power imbalance?

Got it, that's why I only date girls within this criteria:

* My age +/- 2 years

* Comparable emotional and intellectual development

* Same level of education

* Earns as much money as me +/- 10%

* Total net worth +/- 10% of mine

* Muscular, so we are of comparable strength

* Exact same cultural and ethnical background

* No chronic disease or disabilities, as I do not have any and that would be an unfair advantage

* Reads Hacker News pathologically frequently, so we both know when to short NVIDIA at about the same time

Yes, you can extrapolate, and our society does. This is why ministers aren't supposed to have relationships with their clergy, therapists are not supposed to have relationships with their clients, lawyers, doctors, etc. The list goes on and on.

Can become, yes. Depends a bit on what exactly the nature of the power imbalance is. Which is why there are usually strict rules about relationships with your reports and how to resolve the situation. Like reporting it to HR so the work positions can be shifted in a way to move positions so that there is no longer a reporting relationship between the two.

Considering he was fired it's the other way around. This at most only applies to very small companies or to people at the very bottom on the totem pole.

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How do you know the boss initiated?

Yeah. It’s not like being an ultra chad billionaire with great biceps and confident personality is NOT attractive to women. Maybe her husband wasn’t doing it for her (legit feel bad for that man, whoever he is, today).

Everyone loves to jump to this conclusion when I think that should require some heavy evidence.

You could just as easily say she did sexual favors to get a leg-up over more qualified peers and get/maintain her position.

If anything, the fact he got fired seems to imply she has all the power in their relationship being outed. I haven't seen anyone calling for her head.