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Do you not understand the power imbalance between an employee and an executive? How can a subordinate consent if their job is potentially on the line? This exi
by pfarnsworth 9y ago
Do you not understand the power imbalance between an employee and an executive? How can a subordinate consent if their job is potentially on the line? This exists to protect people from being threatened into going into a relationship against their will.
Every time a power imbalance exists there is always a chance it will be exploited and people must be protected from this.
- gnicholas 9y agoAlso, other subordinates will likely be treated worse than the one who is dating the boss.
- DanielBMarkham 9y agoI agree. I want to make sure you don't overstate your case. It is possible to have a relationship with a subordinate that's nothing but equal and fair. People do it all the time. Where the problem comes in is when there's a problem, either somebody did something wrong or the people just don't get along anymore. Suddenly every little piece of the relationship is now the company's business -- and there's no way anybody can go back in time and piece together what happened in private between two consenting adults. This makes what is usually a private emotional mess between two adults (and possibly a criminal case if something was done wrong) into this huge corporate-wide drama that can never be resolved well. The only thing to do when something like this is discovered, crisis or not, is to fire both parties immediately for violating policy. So there's nothing puritanical going on at all here. And manager/subordinate relationships are not always bad and evil. Just from a practical standpoint, it makes the employer's job impossible to do well, so it has to be avoided.