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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Why is every company you've worked for an example of how things ought to be done?

I didn't say they were, but since it's a pretty common practice, it suggests that Adder is not "clueless."

Unless you're Katie Hill, in which case it becomes the authority on which "news" websites trafficking in revenge porn can claim there's been an ethics violation.

There was an ethics violation. But did that really matter? In your world, are there a lot of people looking specifically for revenge porn involving ethics violations?

But for the ethics violation, the allegation against her would be that she engaged in a consensual relationship with two other people. It would seem to me that sort of thing is arguably... noncontroversial? No one's business?

Isn't the allegation that she abused her authority by sleeping with a subordinate? Or when you say "but for the ethics violation," do you mean "If we assume there's no problem when a manager gets involved with someone working for him or her"?

Adults need no intervention on questions of who they may or may not fuck beyond the laws barring people from forcing it upon subordinates and allowing victims to sue for damages and lawyers' fees. This "ethics rule" is an example of the Death of Common Sense.

Isn't this the "forcing it upon subordinates" thing?



Immaterial. It's the authority by which she's being forced out for nothing. (Well, except the tat, which is quite questionable.)

If Trump is an authoritarian driving us to fascism as the paranoids claim, chances are I'll be in the gulag quickly. But as I oddly do know a number of people near him, it's unlikely but also possible I could also find myself offering some policy prescriptions. And if that odd scenario were to occur, mine might by offered on a postcard (to return our little back and forth to your first comment):

Any man who argues "We should pass a rule..." in immediate response to an issue shall be exiled to Bouvet. Or shot. Em can choose.