A US tech company says its chief executive has quit after he was apparently caught on a big screen at a Coldplay concert embracing a female co-worker, in a clip that went viral.

The clip showed a man and a woman hugging on a jumbo screen at the arena in Foxborough, Massachusetts, before they abruptly ducked and hid from the camera.

The pair were identified in US media as Mr Byron, a married chief executive of Astronomer, and Kristin Cabot, the firm’s chief people officer.

  • malloc@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I was interviewing with this company 💀. Withdrew my application/interview last week because of this.

    Didn’t leave a reason. Just emailed recruiter, “I am no longer interested”.

    Also, they have like 6-7 interviews with various people in company.

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      14 hours ago

      Really? How would this have impacted you as an employee? And how do you know the other companies are different?

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        to be honest I buried the lede. I withdrew largely due to the long interview process. I had ghosted or left them on read for a week but the viral news reminded me.

        Thinking how it would impact me directly? Probably not much. But this is a small company. If leadership is this sloppy at covering up extra marital affairs. How bad is it on the inside?

        Shitty leadership in my experience often correlates with awful company culture.

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        Stock goes down, they lay people off to make it go up. And they will be without a CEO for a while. The fill in person probably will be at a disadvantage in deal negotiations because the topic of conversation will be the affair, not whatever product they are offering. That will also hurt the companies future prospects and stock price.

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          Stock goes down,

          Why?

          they lay people off to make it go up

          This. Is. Not. How. It. Works.

          And they will be without a CEO for a while

          Substantial costs savings.

          The fill in person probably will be at a disadvantage in deal negotiations because the topic of conversation will be the affair,

          This is one of the wildest assumptions I have seen for a while.

          That will also hurt the companies future prospects and stock price.

          How?

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        CEO having an affair with head of HR… The flag for rampant violation of company policy from above, nepotism, mix of private and professional life… really cant get more red unless the head of HR is also his daughter.

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        13 hours ago

        A ceo that’s fucking his employees is probally fucking his employees.

        It also makes working for the company a punch line on your resume.

        “Ohh, you worked for Astronomy? Wasn’t that the company where the CEO got cuaght fucking around at a Coldplay concert?”

        The above may be a good or bad ice breaker at future interviews, but its still something you may have to deal with.

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          So what? Let whoever fuck whoever you dont have to participate and just say no.

          Dont ruin your own family bu cheatimg on them however

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          There’s an expression “fish rots from the head down”, meaning when the leadership of an organization is bad, the whole thing starts to stink. In this case, the CEO was having an affair with the head of HR, and was so unsubtle about it that he was caught like this at a public event. So, either the rest of the execs are completely unaware of what’s happening around them, which isn’t good. Or, they’re aware and did nothing about it, which is also bad.

          Sure, this may be happening at plenty of other companies, but those CEOs have at least managed to avoid getting caught. Why work for the one company you know is troubled like this?

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            They were there with a group of coworkers, apparently this was some sort of open secret amongst some of the staff.

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      These multiple rounds of interviews to get a job are fucking ridiculous. They chose the pope in two fucking days, you do not need a week’s worth of interviews to know if I’m worth giving a paycheck.

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        I guess it depends on if they are interrogation style interviews or more of a getting to know you kinda thing. For my current job I had like 4 casual interviews and it was a blessing in disguise. I applied for a role I that I was pretty tired of but had the most experience in. Without letting me know the first interviewers recognized that I had some skills that would fit well with a different position that wasn’t advertised on their homepage yet. In the end I was offered a job for the latter!

        I know this is anecdotal and probably not how it usually goes. I also agree that 6-7 interviews is probably overkill. But multiple interviews aren’t always a bad thing.

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        To be fair, it has occasionally taken a very long time to choose the next Pope, which is how they ended up with the tradition of locking the cardinals up together and not letting them out until they’d made a decision in the first place.

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          tradition of locking the cardinals up

          Seems like a good idea to implement all the time.