Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit

Re:Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behin... by d4nt on Sunday March 16, 2014 @11:28AM (#7409742)

What you say is true, but I don't believe a contract of employment entitles any company to tell someone who they can or cannot date.

If, for the reasons you describe, they wish to maintain a public position of "we not encourage dating coworkers" that's one thing, so long as they don't actually think they have any say in this matter.

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Re:Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behin... by lobotryas on Sunday March 16, 2014 @05:37PM (#7411447)

> I don't believe a contract of employment entitles any company to tell someone who they can or cannot date.

Shame that companies believe that just fine. They can and will fire an employee if "no dating coworkers" is a policy that said employee violated. You are welcome to avoid working for these companies, but that's your only recourse unless you have an overwhelmingly string case that discrimination was involved.

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Re:Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behin... by brongondwana on Sunday March 16, 2014 @07:01PM (#7411793)

Reasonable is "don't date anyone in your line of management". Options in the case that you do start dating including transferring out to a different manager. That's reasonable, because it's a conflict of interest issue rather than a "who you are allowed to date".

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Re:Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behin... by ahomescu1 on Monday March 17, 2014 @05:56AM (#7414056)

Probably also reasonable is "don't date anyone in your building", at least that way you don't have to see them every day if it goes south.

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