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paxy • yesterday at 2:27 PM • 6 replies • view on HN

No such thing as consensual when saying no to the boss could result in getting fired.


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wasfgwp • yesterday at 2:37 PM

If you go that route you can extrapolate to some absurd degree. Basically any relationship with a power imbalance becomes sexual harassment.

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caminante • yesterday at 2:35 PM

How do you reconcile "love contracts" [0]?

[0] https://www.woodsrogers.com/insights/publications/this-valen...

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Janicc • yesterday at 2:38 PM

Considering he was fired it's the other way around. This at most only applies to very small companies or to people at the very bottom on the totem pole.

mohamedkoubaa • yesterday at 3:09 PM

How do you know the boss initiated?

hbn • yesterday at 3:50 PM

Everyone loves to jump to this conclusion when I think that should require some heavy evidence.

You could just as easily say she did sexual favors to get a leg-up over more qualified peers and get/maintain her position.

If anything, the fact he got fired seems to imply she has all the power in their relationship being outed. I haven't seen anyone calling for her head.

stronglikedan • yesterday at 2:53 PM

> could result in getting fired

When did they discover the quid-pro-quo aspect of this particular relationship? The news is moving so fast that I must have missed that part.