Many people meet their future partners at work. They also potentially meet the person they are seeing behind their spouse’s back. Or, they meet someone they abuse for their own gratification. Each of these scenarios are not the same, and thus, have policies around them. We can’t tease them apart without investigating…

I get your point but I don’t agree. I think it’s way more of a hassle and has the potential to be incredibly exploitative. Couples who want to pursue a relationship can report it to HR. If it’s the kind of relationship they don’t want to disclose to HR, it’s probably best to end it. To be clear, I’m no fan of HR. Fuck…

I don’t know their exact position in the organization structure. I don’t have to. There’s plenty of scenarios where their messy bullshit impacts other people without even getting into their individual dynamic. Let’s say a crew person overhears something while prepping their hair and makeup for the broadcast. Then they…

Oh! Gotcha. I thought it was a reference to the US Senator. ;) 

Is he into scat porn, or something? I’m on a work machine and am afraid to Google it.

Because of the power dynamics involved in a workplace. Relationships don’t exist in vacuums. If someone wants to set fire to their marriage, that’s fine by me. They can do that without dragging it into the workplace.

When you shit where you eat you get shit all over yourself and your coworkers. It’s the reason organizations have “don’t shit where you eat” policies. Moreover, if you shit where you eat at a media corporation (TV, film, YouTube, podcast, etc.), you run the risk of the entire operation shutting down and putting people…

Jesus Christ, that’s bleak.

Well said.

Once again, don’t shit where you eat.

Good luck with that. I hope for your sake I’m wrong.

Gird your loins, I have a feeling the UK will resemble the hellscape of the US pretty soon.

Scab.

The railroad industry is extremely profitable. They have been short staffing the trains and generally treating their workers like shit* for decades. I hope they strike and bring this godforsaken country to its knees. There are one hundred thousand rail workers in this country. The cops can’t arrest them all.

Yes, Joe “Nothing with Fundamentally Change” Biden is a moderate Republican. When you do more than follow Ds and Rs and map real material policies to political ideology, he’s a moderate conservative.

I don’t know if you follow Philosophy Tube (Abigail Thorne) but her recent video dug into one of her pet theories that much of the hatred and dismissing of trans people is rooted in misogyny. What man in his right might would give up his gender?! What woman in her right might would ever think she could adopt the…

Can’t wait to read followup reporting on how this person had previous run-ins with the law, but it was swept under the rug. Or that his co-workers witnessed him saying or sharing some awful criminal pedophile shit that went unreported.

I don’t know what to tell you, friend. Except that Google is an amazing tool to answer these kinds of questions.

No. Both spellings are acceptable. I prefer two but my office spell check always flags it so I started using only one.

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