Downvoted for several reasons: because I would expect colleagues in any work environment to hook up, because I think it’s very unkind to assume sexual relations in the workplace are indicative of a problem, because I’m against outing people’s sex lifes unless directly relevant to a scandal. And finally, because it seems unnecessary to mention polyamory when talking about two people hooking up.
(Retracted after more consideration. I still disagree with the wording of the comment I responded to but can now see it points towards a real problem)
This is nonsense. Financial firms typically have strict disclosure rules about relationships between colleagues because ppl will commit fraud out of loyalty to ppl they’re fucking. As, y’know, may well have happened here!
This would be reportable and disqualifying in a lot of industries. For instance, if a prosecutor is having (or recently had) a sexual relationship with a defense attorney, it would be wildly inappropriate for them to be on the same case. It is impossible to maintain objectivity in that kind of dual relationship. A foundation employee should not be evaluating a grant proposal from someone they are sleeping with. And so on. So one doesn’t even have to even considered the possibility of fraud to have realized how improper this would have been if true.
To generalize the your earlier comment, and to probably sound older than I am, it sounds like FTX/Alameda was not at all run in a professionally appropriate or “grown up” manner. How aware was the community of that characteristic more generally?
Downvoted for several reasons: because I would expect colleagues in any work environment to hook up, because I think it’s very unkind to assume sexual relations in the workplace are indicative of a problem, because I’m against outing people’s sex lifes unless directly relevant to a scandal. And finally, because it seems unnecessary to mention polyamory when talking about two people hooking up.
(Retracted after more consideration. I still disagree with the wording of the comment I responded to but can now see it points towards a real problem)
This is nonsense. Financial firms typically have strict disclosure rules about relationships between colleagues because ppl will commit fraud out of loyalty to ppl they’re fucking. As, y’know, may well have happened here!
This would be reportable and disqualifying in a lot of industries. For instance, if a prosecutor is having (or recently had) a sexual relationship with a defense attorney, it would be wildly inappropriate for them to be on the same case. It is impossible to maintain objectivity in that kind of dual relationship. A foundation employee should not be evaluating a grant proposal from someone they are sleeping with. And so on. So one doesn’t even have to even considered the possibility of fraud to have realized how improper this would have been if true.
To generalize the your earlier comment, and to probably sound older than I am, it sounds like FTX/Alameda was not at all run in a professionally appropriate or “grown up” manner. How aware was the community of that characteristic more generally?