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The question is whether there's a power imbalance. Investor/founder: not OK. Manager/rank and file employee: not OK. Two peers at the same level of the organ
by bjt 9y ago
The question is whether there's a power imbalance. Investor/founder: not OK. Manager/rank and file employee: not OK. Two peers at the same level of the organization: fine by me if it's mutual, but problems arise if it's not.
- btilly 9y agoThe problem with peers at the same level is that if they have a messy breakup, it may be hard for them to interact on the job. That said, been there. Done that. Married her. :-)
- scarface74 9y agoI also met my wife at work at a small company. I knew she was a good person and while I wasn't in complete control of whether we broke up, I could control whether the breakup was "bad". The only thing that I could imagine that would make the breakup bad, would be if I didn't show her respect, wasn't honest with her, etc. If I did all of that and we decided to go our separate ways, I feel that we would have been okay professionally. We both needed our jobs and couldn't afford to get fired - especially not in 2009.