The Oregonian has a better article than any I've seen posted here so far:
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2018/06/intel_...
Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee
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Re: Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee
#282It was stupid of him to do. The executive suite of large companies is very Game of Thrones. Why leave a knife around for someone to stab you in the back? Of course people knew. And then they were “shocked!!” to formally find out. This is a serious thing. What if you knew about the relationship, and the other person was promoted over you? I worked at a place where 2 colleagues had an open/secret relationship. One was…
>> I guess he can always go to Oracle Why would a CEO of a microprocessor company be accepted at Oracle?
Oracle has a reputation for being the place you go after a scandal that precludes you from employment at most tech companies.
Kinda like the Oakland Raiders. Sorry Oakland fans.
Re: Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee
#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
I assumed it was a man because of another gender bias: I don't know many women working at Intel so statistically its likely to be a man
unless I am missing something, people usually don't switch their sexual orientation based on gender breakdown at their workplace.
Pray tell, how do you know the sexual orientation of Intel's CEO to confidently state that it could have "switched"?
Re: Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee
#284Jesus, why would you throw that kind of power and money away for that...
Regardless of your gender, orientation... whatever... keep it in your pants regarding the workplace!
Re: Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee
#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quoting the article: “An ongoing investigation by internal and external counsel has confirmed a violation of Intel’s non-fraternization policy, which applies to all managers.” It's not just the specific act(s) but the fact that he knowingly broke policy, which raises the question of whether he decided other policies also didn't apply to him. CEOs have a lot of power and enormous compensation and, at least in theory,…
Its also company policy that you should be fired on the spot for sleeping at your desk -- some kind of hold over from manufacturing that makes no sense for most office positions. Risk exposure to lawsuit is incomparable to the relationship case but it was consensual.
Yeah, and if the CEO was sleeping at his desk it'd be reasonable to either reprimand him or expect him to spend 30 seconds rescinding that policy because “the rules are for you but not me” has a terrible effect on morale.
Re: Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
All relationships at work are a bad idea. They're dangerous to the firm and bad for the people's involved careers. Best rule for everyone is no relationships between co-workers and if one happens both people are fired.
That is mind-boggingly ridiculous: the concept that a company would have any sort of opinion on who I have sex with. US work culture sometimes feels so incredibly alien when seen from the outside.
It's alien when you're on the inside too.
Re: Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee
#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why assume at all?
Because writing in English requires either gender specific singular pronouns or the awkward sounding use of a gender neutral _plural_ pronoun referring to a singular person.
There is no rule in English that says a pronoun cannot be both singular and plural. Here's a simple example:
"Which of you thinks you are the smartest?"
I used "you" as both singular and plural in that sentence, and no one would blink an eye at it.
"They" is used the same way as "you", as either a singular or plural pronoun depending on the context. This was the case in English for centuries, until some prescriptivist grammarians decided they didn't like it, each for their own reasons.
BTW, do you really think that last sentence would be improved by saying "each for his or her own reasons"?
The modern resurgence of singular "they" is just returning English to what was common and correct usage before the prescriptivists hijacked the language.
https://www.google.com/search?q=singular+they+history
https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/everything-yo...
Re: Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee
#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was an opinion on marriage, a millenia-old quasi-political-religious traditional institution. The world is full of such opinions. Polygamy is illegal in 50 of 50 United states, even California. Don't slip on that edge of political wrongthink. Communism is certainly the most damaging political movement of the 20th century. Should we oust Communist sympathizers from their positions of power?
Polygamy is very different from same-sex marriage, though.
How?
Re: Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee
#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> I guess he can always go to Oracle Why would a CEO of a microprocessor company be accepted at Oracle?
Oracle has a reputation for being the place you go after a scandal that precludes you from employment at most tech companies. Kinda like the Oakland Raiders. Sorry Oakland fans.
now it makes sense why the raiders play within sight of where the warriors play.
Re: Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee
#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because writing in English requires either gender specific singular pronouns or the awkward sounding use of a gender neutral _plural_ pronoun referring to a singular person.
"they" is both singular and plural.
You are correct. See my other comment in this thread for some supporting evidence.