Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
by prmoustache on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:51AM
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This.
For the obvious reason that you spend many hours of your week in the workplace, it becomes the place where you meet the most people in your life and that includes friends but also your potential love or sexual partners. As simple as that.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
by paulryanrogers on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:05AM
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It's not illegal to have relationships with subordinates in the US. It's usually against company policy because the risk of lawsuits, or even just people quitting over relationships gone sideways, is too high. Bosses have a lot of power over people because healthcare is tied to employment. Employment is often the only thing keeping one and ones family from being homeless.
There's also a long history of bosses exploiting power dynamics for their personal pleasure.
... than this still is stricly a private thing.
At least in many countries outside the US. There was this fun thing happening then Walmart tried to expand to Europe ... doing zero investigation about social norms before that. They tried to forbid their employees to have relationships. But the germans just said "To the heck, we don't let restrict our freedom by private entities". Over there there are thousands of marriages between e.g. a hospital Dr. med. and nurses. And all of them started as a relationship between a superior and one subordinate. From a german PoV this is entirely okay. What would not be okay is abusing the power of being a superior ... but that has to be backed with evidence first, otherwise it's just a sly accusation.
Don't people have personal freedom of expression in the US? Or can't they enforce their freedom against the powers of the employers or the lynch justice like moralizing of complete strangers?
Always puzzles me.