Their employees and partners probably WorldCom found out about it but it wouldn’t have become the eternal meme it is now.
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UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
This whole situation is kinda like the Streisand effect; nobody would have know who they were if they didnt react
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
How the hell did your autocorrect turn that into “WorldCom”? Is that something you type out a lot? 😅
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Speech to text most likely and then not checking what you’re posting.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
It wasn’t speech to text but obviously no, I didn’t check.
ugo@feddit.it 17 hours ago
And I still don’t. I see these people everywhere but never an ounce of context.
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
‘Random’ couple gets put up on big screen during the kiss cam or something during a cold play concert since they were embracing each other and it seemed like a nice moment. Said couple immediately turn away from eachother and try to hide. Coldplay singer says they must be having an affair. Turns out theyre both married, higher ups in a company, and having an affair with each other.
ugo@feddit.it 17 hours ago
Thank you, finally I’n in the loop
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
It was kinda implied though right?
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
lmao ratted out by some dorky radiohead ripoff lol
dustyData@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
They ratted on themselves. Hundreds of couples get put on the screen on coldplay concerts and nobody remembers them. It was their stupid reaction, as if a sniper was going to shoot them, that made the clip go viral.
Had they not reacted at all they would’ve been forgotten like everyone else.
They were warned even, Chris Martin always warns audiences of the camera before hand so they could’ve gone into the back for a minute and been on zero risk of this happening. But a guilty consciousness ousted them.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 17 hours ago
What’s pissing me off about it now is people eating up the fake statement that the guy “released”. Neither of them have commented on it.
fckreddit@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
But guilt made them react. They knew what they were was wrong, but did it anyway.
match@pawb.social 19 hours ago
no one: pursues the guilty: flees
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Is this deep or am I just stupid?
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
It’s pretty deep for a bible verse
“The wicked flee when none persueth, but the riteous go bold as a lion” or something like that
1984@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
Its only wrong because humans have decided its wrong, when you think about it.
During roman times, it was common with complete orgies. Society makes up these rules as it goes.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
It’s wrong based on consent.
If one party in the married pair – who consented to be with each other forever, usually in front of many others – defies that consensual agreement, then what they did is wrong.
Otherwise you can just use a thought-terminating cliche like “all rules / words / ideas are made up” and end any meaningful discourse.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Yep, that’s it. I’ll never understand why the cheater doesn’t just break the marriage up if there is infidelity. He looks too old to be this immature.
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
I’m in a married, committed relationship with my partner because that is how we both decided this is the kind of relationship we want.
We also have friends who are married but see other people openly, and both parties are aware, and their additional partners know that they are married.
Neither one is right or wrong, it’s what works for them.
In this case, both people went into their marriage with the intent to remain monogamous. These two did not honor that. That is why is wrong - it’s not about seeing other people if that is the initial agreement. It’s the lie, which both of them did.
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Orgies still happen. Open relationships, too.
If you don’t want to be exclusive then don’t enter into an exclusive relationship.
I agree we could be less uptight about open relationships, but this is really about a rich filthy person being humiliated at a time when most of us feel powerless to stand up to money in any real capacity.
Sergio@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
oh fam thank you… I needed a good laugh…
Why did the Romans construct so many buildings? for their ORGIES
Why did the Romans build acqueducts? to clean up after the ORGIES
Why did the Romans make their roads? to get to their ORGIES
Why did the Romans conquer so many people? because they needed folks for their ORGIES
thank you, friend. fwiw you’re kinda right about morality being a social construct, but I don’t know if that’s the best takeaway from all this.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
You’re only thinking of the morality side of it.
It’s also wrong because they work for a company that probably says subordinate-supervisory relationships are forbidden because of the power imbalance and complications around how a personal relationship–or even the perceptions of one-- might affect workplace decisions. Co-workers–even non-supervisory-- who might even be at the same “level” or their work brings them together for anything can be incredibly problematic. All of this is even at a local, department or site level to say nothing of C-level consequences. This also says nothing of the fact that one of them is in charge of the function, HR, who would be the person most responsible for ensuring this kind of conduct didn’t happen between employees. The hypocrisy and abdication of duty couldn’t be more severe. Both have lost all credibility with anyone in their company, which means they cannot lead others.
Sergio@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Agreed with everything you said. Just wanted to add the term “conflict of interest” to this part. If they had to make a decision that was good for the team and/or the customer, but bad for their lover, they might not make the best decision.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
CONSENT
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
sure. and people get caught cheating all the time. because that’s what it is, if you agreed to monogamy, this is cheating. I strongly suspect both of them agreed with different people to keep things monogamous, hence their panic.