It's a good rule, one that keeps a lot of trouble from potentially happening, if followed.SCLaxAttack wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 11:38 amI’ll remember to quote you when you come up with the next BS thing you’re complaining about.jhu72 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:20 amOh the outrage.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:49 am
The bare fact you make light of what for most is an awful, life-altering, no-way-out, imbalanced power-dynamic sexual relationship should (but likely will not) make you stop and reset. For the few who get 'married' out of the equation, countless more can never forget the terrible choices they were forced to take.
One of the first things I was taught by my first boss - “Don’t $_it where you eat.” It was appropriate then and it’s appropriate now.
The no dating rule should apply across the board and not just between management and staff. Too many dynamics can occur within and after a relationship that can negatively affect an workplace and not just the two people directly involved.
But many a high powered consultant has married another high powered consultant, a doctor and doctor or doctor and nurse, or executive and executive, executive and secretary, etc.
You can sure bet that if you put folks into a high stress, long hours environment, sexual attraction will occur, relationships will develop. The 'rule' helps avoid stepping over the line, creating all sorts of not necessarily intended consequences.
But the serious question is when someone utilizes their relative power to coerce another person sexually. That's the issue of #METOO, not some extreme anti-sex position, whether from the rabid left or the rabid right.