To make this a bit more abstract: Bob is a big wheel over at SomeCompany. Bob is outside work drinking with some friends, say Eve, and runs into Alice. Alice

To make this a bit more abstract: Bob is a big wheel over at SomeCompany. Bob is outside work drinking with some friends, say Eve, and runs into Alice. Alice joins them and while she doesn't currently work for SomeCompany she indicates to Bob she would like to join. Bob, like most people, hangs out with a lot of people with similar interests/skill-sets/abilities. As the night wanes, Bob flirts with Alice. Alice declines Bob's advances. SomeCompany ends up not hiring Alice. So where are we on the morality meter here? First, it is clearly inappropriate to flirt with people you may want to hire. Obviously. But the empathetic side of the argument is that just because you're a big wheel at the cracker factory that shouldn't mean you can never go 'off the clock' and do things humans tend to do like try to get laid. Work and life have become so blended for so many people it's unrealistic to expect this not to happen. We created this culture of 'living to work' and this is a consequence. We should expect these sorts of messy situations to occur and build sane rules/expectations around them. But go ahead and throw stones/downvote/ act outraged. That'll solve the problem.