If the CEO, or high level executive at Exxon

[WriterDom]

is married and has a pattern of screwing the latest intern in the company, is it still no one's business or is the private sector different from the public sector?

 

[Laurel]

So long as it's consensual, who cares? None of my business. Long as he does his job and the shareholders are happy, then it's something between him & his wife. Is he an asshole for cheating? Absolutely. Is it my business if he chooses to be an asshole? Only if I'm married to him.

But I don't care who politicians boff either, so I'm probably not the best person to answer this question. Private matters should remain private.

 

[lavender]

 

[Laurel]

The CEO of Exxon is fucking a pig in the ass?

Isn't bestiality illegal?

 

[miles]

I don't care if a CEO is fucking a pig in the ass

Why do we have to drag Hillary into this?

 

[miles]

WriterDom

I have no problem with it as long as he lies about it under oath.

 

[Guest]

Re: I don't care if a CEO is fucking a pig in the ass

Why do we have to drag Hillary into this?

LOL

 

[Nogard]

Who would care unless he/she is a democrat. Then, of course, they must be burned at the stake

 

[WriterDom]

So if Literotica was a corporation, and Laurel was the CEO, maybe she would turn a blind eye to executives having interoffice affairs with subordinates. Until the first multimillion dollar sexual harassment case hit the courts, perhaps.

 

[Cheyenne]

...turn a blind eye to executives having interoffice affairs with subordinates. Until the first multimillion dollar sexual harassment case hit the courts, perhaps.

Exactly.

Based on what I've seen at the senior exec level, I believe most times cases like this will be settled BEFORE going to court with a payoff to the lower level employee to make them go away quietly.

Even though everyone is standing around yelling about how the affair was between two consenting adults and it is no one's business, the reality of the situation is that you do NOT want the corporate name dragged through the mud in the media with a senior executive and/or the company being sued for sexual harassment.

In the end, the lawyers convince the company that paying off the lower ranking sex partner is the way to go. And I really really hate writing those checks.

 

[WriterDom]

I was waiting for you to jump all over that one, Cheyenne.

 

[Cheyenne]

Like I said, I really really hate writing those checks.

We had to literally fumigate one office before anyone else would move into it after it became common knowledge what one former exec did in there with a former secretary. Consenting adults? Yes. We still wrote a check when the fun and games were over.

 

[pabloback]

perks of the job methinks

 

[Guest]

Congressmen play by different rules. Makes it a hell of lot easier to be "all about sex"

 

[ManOSafety]

When someone has an affair, isn't that a betrayal of the trust their spouse had in them? A violation of their marriage vows? If they can so nonchalantly break a promise and betray a trust, is that the kind of person that we can trust as constituents?

And as Cheyenne pointed out so eloquently, it certainly makes a difference in the private sector because it costs a hell of a lot of money to settle the suit (and to pay the wonderful attorneys that allow us to settle the suit instead of going to court about it).

 

[Weird Harold]

When someone has an affair, isn't that a betrayal of the trust their spouse had in them? A violation of their marriage vows? If they can so nonchalantly break a promise and betray a trust, is that the kind of person that we can trust as constituents?

I don't think marriage vows have ever been "sacred." At least not for men. It would not surprise me at all to find out that the man who came up with the words "forsaking all others, 'til death do you part," violated the spirit of that vow as soon as he finished writing it.

The "double standard" has been around longer than the current form of the typical marraiage vows, and throughout history only women have been seriously punished for adultery unless there was some political or financial motive for punishing a man.

I know several people who think that a politician who is faithful to his wife is faithful only to keep the press from finding out wwhat he's really hiding.

I told my ex-wife that I would not go looking for outside sex, but "if somebody shoves some strange pussy in my face, I'm going to lick it and if they drop it in my lap I'm going to fuck it."

I think that every man on this board would do the same thing. Regrets about broken vows come later when the upper brain has enough blood to function.

I personally don't care who or what a public figure is sleeping with or what "sacred vows" the lower brain breaks. Political and financial decisions aren't (usually) made with the lower brain or under the influence of hormones. Those are the decisions and vows that are important to me.

We have had several despicable presidents over the years if they are judged by their marital fideleity. Most of those same presidents are considered by "History" to have been good, or even great, presidents.

 

[Problem Child]

Uhhh....when was Hillary going to fuck the pig again?

 

[Oliver Clozoff]

There's definitely a double standard here. During Clinton's numerous scandals involving alleged sexual harrassment, women's groups who ordinarily steadfastly back women in sexually harassment claims were nowhere to be heard. The message I took home from the situtation is that sexual harrassment is ok inappropriate and despicable...

unless you're a pro-abortion President.

 

[Andra_Jenny]

Wierd Harold

I used to think like you, i.e, if it is thrown at me.

Only problem is, over the years, I've come to respect my spouse, so I don't think like that anymore.

I also have found a new respect for myself.

 

[JustKristin]

Re: Wierd Harold

I used to think like you, i.e, if it is thrown at me.

Only problem is, over the years, I've come to respect my spouse, so I don't think like that anymore.

I also have found a new respect for myself.

Halleluiah.

Ditto.

But as far as public vs. private sector, if an Exxon office intern was missing, presumed dead, I believe the police would be all over the president or whomever did the screwing. I don't think it would get the amount of publicity though. Journalists get very self-righteous when it comes to what politicians do on the people's dime and time.